Glass Half Empty

Another year, the last few grains in its hourglass spiralling away into the pinch, and out into ... the future? I can't say I'm sorry to see it go. 2010 has been a bitch of a year, what with one thing and another, and 2011 really has to be better, if I'm to maintain my faith in myself and humanity.

This was the year of The Thesis, the year of Winter in the Willows, the beginning of new projects and the end of many things. This was the year at the end of the decade in which I became myself, in which I Went to University, and in which an awful lot of things went right, wrong, both and neither. It's been difficult and awesome in equal measure, and while I wouldn't change it for the world, there are places along the way at which I'm looking back wistfully, wondering what the world would be like if I'd decided to walk the other path then instead.

Highs

• Rachael and Mike's wedding.
• Handing in the thesis, and getting all the work I've done over the last few years summed up and out of the way.
• Crewing Winter in the Willows, and getting to inflict Plot on the player base.

Lows

• Working early-morning to late-night for several months, trying to write up the thesis, and ending up with something submittable and feature complete, but which I think could have been better than it is.
• Losing touch with a lot of people I shouldn't have. I'm historically terrible at writing to / phoning / emailing people I don't see regularly: it's not because I hate you, it's just because my life is full of LOUD AND SCARY THINGS and people I don't see regularly fall out of my head. Or something. Either way, not good.
• Too many deaths among people I knew and loved.
• Coming home from Christmas break to find my house had been broken into.

2011 will be better. It has to be. 2010 is going away, and it's time for change.

The Glass: empty