an year in revue
Jan. 1st, 2009 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pauraque_bkWell I kept the same job for an entire calendar year, which is more than a lot of people can say, unfortunately. Almost everyone I know, their place of work has had substantial layoffs.
February 12, my poor old guild Exquisite Pain killed Vashj. The first few months of the year were the glory days; we had not only proven that we could manage on our own, but cruised past the progression of practically all the established Horde guilds on the server, most of which had been stuck or not doing much organized raiding. So there was then a bit of a Horde renaissance when Mythical and Terror Australis and Taint (under Kazeth) reorganized and became competitive with us. It was fun.
The most important date of the year, I would have to say, was March 21. That wasn't the day I fell in love with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_hannelore -- it would be rather alarming if it had been that sudden -- but it was the day I sat eating lunch at Zachary's and had the blinding realization that I could actually be with her.
It was also around this time that my health went downhill, of course shortly after I lost my health plan. Due to this, in a fairly circuitous set of circumstances, I started seeing my old therapist from several years prior.
April 3, Kael died after seven weeks of attempts. Certainly one of those "it all just came together" moments, watching semi-dumbstruck as his health just went down and down and then he was dead.
The guild, unfortunately, had suffered a similar collapse by early July. From an outside perspective it seemed very sudden and preciptated by nothing, but really there were significant instabilities in the foundation from day one, which only got worse and worse the longer they went uncorrected. It was very sad, because there was a ton of potential in that group to keep going a lot longer, and it was basically thrown away because a few people were very, VERY stubborn.
So I retreated back to DoA, which was having a better time of raiding. It was all kind of stupid because they took me back for the wrong reasons, and didn't actually need my main, so I ended up playing an ungeared alt I was no good at. I learned Vashj with them and we killed her July 30. I kited striders, how exciting! They didn't kill Kael before the nerfs rolled in, but they tried pretty hard.
August 26 were mah birfdays! I r 26.
September 7 was the first successful bear run. Stupid bear runs. I'm not sorry I did it, but I wish I had known in advance that the drama was going to be that bad, so I could at least have been prepared and not surprised that grown ups were acting like spoiled children.
September 26, I had surgery attempting to correct what had been wrong with me since at least March. It kinda worked. It reduced the symptoms and improved the quality of my life by a good amount. I guess I haven't given up hope that someday I'll be well, but who knows.
The week of October 15_hannelore was here! It was quite pleasant. *fade to black*
Thereabouts, I got a new computer, which I'd been talking about doing forever. I had never had a good computer, and considering the amount of time I spend staring at one, it seemed like an efficient way to improve my life overall. It cost a lot.
November 1-30, baby's first Nano, which I won. This was the only significant fiction writing I did all year.
November 4, an election happened! Turns out black people can be President, but gay people can't get married. So, mixed bag I guess.
November 14 WotLK release, November 23 ding 80, December 11 Naxx 10 cleared. Yeah... I know I said I didn't want to spend eight months clearing the first tier, but this wasn't exactly what I had in mind.
In 2009 I plan to do the following things:
-write more fiction
-paint more pictures
-cook more food
-conlang more... conlangs
-visit_hannelore
-sever my ties to this area (particularly a)ensure my brother is sufficiently independent and b)liquidate my interest in this house) so I'm able to leave here and go live with_hannelore and her son
-oh yeah, and lern 2 be a good stepdad... soon.
...some of these things might be more challenging than others?
also: New Year edition ofnedroidcomics
February 12, my poor old guild Exquisite Pain killed Vashj. The first few months of the year were the glory days; we had not only proven that we could manage on our own, but cruised past the progression of practically all the established Horde guilds on the server, most of which had been stuck or not doing much organized raiding. So there was then a bit of a Horde renaissance when Mythical and Terror Australis and Taint (under Kazeth) reorganized and became competitive with us. It was fun.
The most important date of the year, I would have to say, was March 21. That wasn't the day I fell in love with
_hannelore -- it would be rather alarming if it had been that sudden -- but it was the day I sat eating lunch at Zachary's and had the blinding realization that I could actually be with her.It was also around this time that my health went downhill, of course shortly after I lost my health plan. Due to this, in a fairly circuitous set of circumstances, I started seeing my old therapist from several years prior.
April 3, Kael died after seven weeks of attempts. Certainly one of those "it all just came together" moments, watching semi-dumbstruck as his health just went down and down and then he was dead.
The guild, unfortunately, had suffered a similar collapse by early July. From an outside perspective it seemed very sudden and preciptated by nothing, but really there were significant instabilities in the foundation from day one, which only got worse and worse the longer they went uncorrected. It was very sad, because there was a ton of potential in that group to keep going a lot longer, and it was basically thrown away because a few people were very, VERY stubborn.
So I retreated back to DoA, which was having a better time of raiding. It was all kind of stupid because they took me back for the wrong reasons, and didn't actually need my main, so I ended up playing an ungeared alt I was no good at. I learned Vashj with them and we killed her July 30. I kited striders, how exciting! They didn't kill Kael before the nerfs rolled in, but they tried pretty hard.
August 26 were mah birfdays! I r 26.
September 7 was the first successful bear run. Stupid bear runs. I'm not sorry I did it, but I wish I had known in advance that the drama was going to be that bad, so I could at least have been prepared and not surprised that grown ups were acting like spoiled children.
September 26, I had surgery attempting to correct what had been wrong with me since at least March. It kinda worked. It reduced the symptoms and improved the quality of my life by a good amount. I guess I haven't given up hope that someday I'll be well, but who knows.
The week of October 15
_hannelore was here! It was quite pleasant. *fade to black*Thereabouts, I got a new computer, which I'd been talking about doing forever. I had never had a good computer, and considering the amount of time I spend staring at one, it seemed like an efficient way to improve my life overall. It cost a lot.
November 1-30, baby's first Nano, which I won. This was the only significant fiction writing I did all year.
November 4, an election happened! Turns out black people can be President, but gay people can't get married. So, mixed bag I guess.
November 14 WotLK release, November 23 ding 80, December 11 Naxx 10 cleared. Yeah... I know I said I didn't want to spend eight months clearing the first tier, but this wasn't exactly what I had in mind.
In 2009 I plan to do the following things:
-write more fiction
-paint more pictures
-cook more food
-conlang more... conlangs
-visit
_hannelore-sever my ties to this area (particularly a)ensure my brother is sufficiently independent and b)liquidate my interest in this house) so I'm able to leave here and go live with
_hannelore and her son-oh yeah, and lern 2 be a good stepdad... soon.
...some of these things might be more challenging than others?
also: New Year edition of
nedroidcomics
