What Have I Done

I’m reluctant to encourage this tagging thing, but I have nothing else to write today. So this is Christmas, and what have I done. Was tagged by Blacker and Whackster. This year I had (and was fully absorbed by) a square job. I wasn’t that happy for a while, and the corporate life kinda sucked the life out of everything else I was doing, and was actually good at. However, in the last few months things have changed a lot and I think I can do more work that I love. By all objective measures, however, I think this has been a bad year, though I do feel like a marginally better person.

My first real memory of this year was walking into office on January 1st (for kiribath) and getting a text alert that the Tamil politician Maheshwaran had been killed in kovil. Which was an immediate downer. And the government pulled out of the cease-fire on the 3rd. And it’s been that kinda year. I have less (inflation-adjusted) money, (alcohol-adjusted) friends, and time. There are also significantly more spirits in the material world, and a lot more injustice floating around like smog. However, crisis is an opportunity to make changes you couldn’t make before, and I’m trying to take that. I think my personal life is OK, I don’t get in random drunken trouble all the time and I’m generally nice and supportive to the people around me. I’m pretty good with kids, attentive to elders and I treat women with respect, unless I’m flirting, and even then.

My personal life fell apart last year in the midst of a bad break-up and now I think it’s back together. I have fewer friends, but they’re more solid. I don’t go out as much, but so what. Now my working life is teetering, but it’s also given me opportunity to do stuff that was impossible before because of entrenched interests. Now it’s crisis and it’s possible to make fundamental changes. I’ve also slowly started reconciling what I want to do with my life to the ways the world works. God willing, that will be productive.

Anyways, this is some stuff I’ve done

General

  • Lost mojo
  • Found mojo
  • Sobered up
  • Stopped thinking with dick

    • Work

  • Wrote about 150 blog posts. About 200,000 posts viewed by 93,000 visitors. Which is a decline.
  • Wrote back page for almost every issue of Montage
  • Uploaded about 729 photos. Photos have been viewed a grand total of 650,000 times
  • Printed and distributed about 4.8 million magazines, mostly in Sinhala (translator). About 300k per, biweekly
  • Got about 10,000 SMS response per issue, peak of 32,000
  • Got promoted
  • Got sad that blogging declined so much, resigned
  • Offered boon, stayed
  • Stopped wearing ties
  • Finally made the transition from print to web portfolio

    • Personal

  • Broke a heart, had heart rebroken
  • Disappeared from the social network
  • Reappeared in smaller, more stable universe
  • Made one successful transition from boyfriend to friend
  • Watched kids grow up
  • Moved out completely on my own
  • Meditated consistently, been in a far better mood

    • Posted on Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 in Personal, Photography.

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    3 Comments »

    lady divine
    2008-12-17 16:56:26

    stopped thinking with dick?
    That’s the BEST one I read so far.. do spread it around…:)
    good for ya! wish I had an award to give you right now!!:D

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    kalusudda
    2008-12-17 21:14:28

    Stopped wearing ties! I always wondered how people wore suits in SL. Even a tee was too much for me! I am a constant sweat fountain when ever I am over there. (soon I will be)
    Thanks goes for sharing!

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    The Whackster
    2008-12-18 10:03:26

    Good on you mate! yeah the work life is teetering on the balance a bit.. lets see what happens eh. cheers

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