Year End Notes
- Year was personally tumultuous to say the least. Been a tough learning experience
- On looking back, despite claiming a temporary aversion to literature, I did read a lot. Non-fiction mostly, but some literature. Favourites include Alberto Manguel's A History of Reading, Waltzing Again - New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood, Osho's Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic, and William Trevor's A Bit on the Side. Notables include Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth, Arundhati Roy's The Shape of the Beast and Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love. Forgettables include those that I have already forgotten.
- My most enjoyable online activity was doing the Laundress series on Pigmentium
- I am an accomplished food blender now. Can whiz any sort of pureed palatable combos in a jiffy
- Surprise, surprise: caught up on several missed movies on DVD by calling it stress-relief-midnight indulgence
- For the first time in my life, was aware of every passing hour for several nights in a row
- Best quote of the year, from a friend, via email, I think we have to learn to live in a world where everything - like, dislike, love, hate all exists together. The line is a perfect summary of what I have been trying so hard to learn each day this year
I look forward to 2009 because forward is the best direction I like. Happy Reading in 2009!
