The end of 2006

It feels a bit strange that this year is already over. It was a good year. Looking back I can’t really pin point anything real big or life changing that happened, it was a relatively quiet year. There were no real big events. There were a few big things, but none of them happened in a single moment, but rather they were stretched out over months or even the whole year, so they don’t seem that big when they are that diluted.

I started working on my Masters degree this year, and at this moment I am half way through with a 3.73 GPA. I’ve loved the intellectual challenge it has been and have enjoyed being pushed in new directions I never thought I’d go. I never would have thought that the research into learning theory would interest me so much, and I’m realizing that that is more the direction I want to go with my career/education. So while that might be big, it is something that has been slowly building the whole year.

I bought a car in April and have already put 10,000 miles on it. It’s the first time I’ve ever been in debt. But it doesn’t feel like that big of a thing either.

I still work where I’ve worked since 2002. I still live where I live since 2002, and if I don’t move by May, which I seriously doubt I will, this will be the place I have lived the longest in my entire life. I almost moved this summer, but decided that wasn’t a good idea and looking back I can tell that was the right decision. I’ve met some new people, but those have been things that have taken months as well.

This year has been a kind of slow continuation forward. And it feels like that is about to change, that there are going to be huge major jumps in some direction or another in 2007. And the only thing I can think of is that I should graduate this coming summer. But who knows what else it could be. Something about the coming year feels big.