Year End Review

I suppose with all the work and travelling I'm doing, plus the fact that I'm keeping in pretty good contact with my parents and my friends and updating my Japan blog regularly means something has to get neglected -- and this blog is it. Sorry. It's too bad too, because I was reading some of my posts from last year at this time, and they're not half bad. Although it's weird to think that a year ago I'd just gotten back from Christmas in Williamsburg, had a FABULOUS murder mystery New Year's party, and was settling in to play a bad video game (dream of stupid!) with my best friend before going back to university to finish my thesis.

Strange what can happen in a year.

It's also strange to see other people writing year-end reviews on their blogs, when I have no desire to do such a thing. I feel a bit like I've dropped out of time in Japan, like it's some sort of alternate version of myself here while another me (the real me? the fake me? who knows) is still at university, or in Canada, or something. There's also no point in doing a year-end review because my year was divided into three distinct chunks: living in Kingston, living at home, and living in Japan. And they're all so different that there's no way they can be synthesized into one year-end overview. Although I suppose I could benefit from a little self-reflection, seeing as how I'm very bad at analysing my own desires/needs/impulses.