Wrap it up

The semester is over, the year is almost up and I'm just realizing that this blog is almost one year old! Well... one year from when I remembered that I had a blog. :)

I have been less active this semester and I'm really really going to try harder next year to do more than one post per month.  I'm not sure if it's that I'm just used to the shenanigans of students so I don't feel the need to vent about it as much, or if I'm getting apathetic, or even if it's just that I'm more patient.

Truth be told, the semester kind of flew by for me.  I am regretful that I feel like I didn't connect with this semester's class as well as in the past and that has kind of bugged me. I'm still trying to pinpoint why it worked out that way and why it bugs me so much.

I've also been very aware of how quickly people are coming into and going from my life, especially students.  Again, this is the nature of the job and working in an academic environment, but unlike friends from childhood, high school, college or post-college life, it will be difficult to keep up with most of them.  We're not Facebook friends, we don't follow each other on Twitter, and most of them will move on and not look back.

I am insanely curious to know how they're all going to end up.  I know that when I was a senior in college, I never could have predicted my life would have gone the way that it has...

I may not have known where I was going to live, but I knew where I didn't want it to be (the north or a big city, obviously)

...and I was SO SURE of what I wanted out of life,

...and who I wanted to be with,

...and of course NONE of that really worked out the way that I thought.



So with all their plans and dreams, I would just love to know how it all turns out for them, but I probably won't.  At the end of the day, I can only hope that I impacted their life in some way.

Yes, it's really been quite a year.  Hard to believe I was getting ready for a trip to the Philippines a year ago as so much has happened in that time, but it still seems like it went by too quickly.  I was blessed with the ability and means to travel to very cool places both far away (Philippines and Switzerland) and not as far (VEGAS!), great family, supportive and amazing friends, and of course always-entertaining students.  And then there's these guys:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Thanks for being my readers and friends! :)