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December 24, 2005
Merry Christmas
Lana got promoted. Ross is dallying in the illicit. Emily is getting married. Susan's company is merging. Laura's almost an official librarian. Morgan is moving. Several people are suddenly unemployed. Several others are suddenly working. My doctor friend is preparing to specialize -- and she's a doctor, this woman I've known since we were both 14. A number of people are enrolled in school, in the midst of becoming different versions of themselves or official versions of the selves they've always been.
I'm feeling old. Not creaky bones old. Pays-the-bills and worries-about-money and watches-her-friends-advance-in-their-careers old.
Both of these things are true: I'm not the same person who could fly in and fly out and catch up with friends and miss out on sleep and slip back into the same old role as comfortably as ever; I'm the same person I've always been.
The New Year is approaching. I'm dreaming about 2006, 2007, 2008. I'm remembering 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002. So much experienced. So much yet to live. The future is writhing with potential.
Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at December 24, 2005 07:39 PM