Journal

Exceptionally Unexceptional

Results

Results day came and went, and my results (as they so often have a habit of doing) turned out exceedingly normal. It pulled my cumulative grade point average up slightly, though that’s nothing to write home about. Still, I’m relieved to survive, though slightly unhappy that it’s not better than what it is. No room for regrets, though. It’s better just to keep your head down and carry on working at it the next semester.

Christmas Time

All right, it’s time to look forward to Christmas. The years have been unkind and I can’t do so with the same exuberance that I would possess when I was younger. It’s hard to look forward to anything when it feels like just the same old stuff year in year out. My family has stopped putting up trees.

Today I’m sending out some email greetings. Just simple greetings. I used to SMS people, but I’ve found that to be slightly on the troublesome side of things. So it’s emails this year. Simple, uninteresting emails, really. But we’ll see when we get to composing them.

I did send out a few cards earlier. I like mail. That is, the slow mail. The snail mail. The Please Mr. Postman mail. I like receiving stuff, but no one sends me anything, and I’m too lousy at sending people things. I’m trying to change that, of course, so this year, I’ve resumed what once used to be a family tradition. I sent out my own cards. It’s been years since I’ve done anything like that. Well, in fact, it’s the first time I’ve sent Christmas cards on my own.

I should make that one of my objectives for the upcoming year, sending more stuff to more people. In fact, I should make a list of objectives for 2010. Yes, I will do that next time. Maybe next week. In some post-Christmas pre-2010 post.

Couple Of Links

What various people read this year. [via The Book Bench]

Antarctic sea life. [via Mail Online]

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