Suckfest 2007 can draw to a close with fervent rapidity in my opinion. A year mired in crushing heartache, unpleasant surprises, half and mis-truths, pain (intentionally inflicted and otherwise), realizations of massive misconceptions and naivety on my part, resulting divisions (some imaginary, some not), career dissatisfaction, eye-opening awareness of a plethora of taradiddles that called to question years of pleasant comfortable certainties, panicked evacuations, subsequent fears, and ashy unpleasantness have made for an emotional wreckage that could have broken me completely in two.

Though discoveries of a Columbus nature in late Q407 have set my Santa Maria on a course that perhaps will someday give me pause in my aforementioned judgment. With a perspective that time alone can grace, perhaps 2007 will be viewed by future NirvanaMan as a year of great change and fortune. Perhaps a course correction was in fact necessary on several levels. Perhaps the career that lacks passion will lead to rewards richer than the treasures obvious of the new land. Perhaps a journey away from the tepid lakes and rivers of monotony towards the oceans deep will prove valuable in the monotony and comfort they vanquish. Perhaps I will learn that temporary pain and shock beats a lifetime lived in the dark. Perhaps enlightenment, personal salvation, and true happiness requires real communication between captains and crew alike. Perhaps I will have realized that the reward of occasional hedonistic indulgences should not be tainted with the disease of feigned moralities and judgment of the moment and convenience. Perhaps 2007 was in fact a good year after all.

Or maybe, just maybe, I will simply continue to enjoy fine b00bies and tacos and a spot of cognac and never give this a second thought.

Sounds like a porn convention. Who'd want that to end?

Will it be followed by Blowfest 2008? :evil:

Amen, amen, I say to you!

"Life," as Chaplin once said in an interview taken a year or two before his death at 85, "is marvelous."

Well, his life was marvelous, but I will mourn its passing just as much as he when my last days come. I only hope I am as old.

2007 was not a great year in many ways but it was a year of a few good decisions and I have made precious few in my life. It seems when life required me to turn left, I would turn right. And when life required me to turn right, I would pass out at the wheel like Crispen Glover in River's Edge.
But at least Crispen had that cool yarn hat. Life never gave me a hat that good.

When I reached the dreaded cardinal number that is the product of ten and four, I devised my own five year plan. I am pleased to say I am chugging ahead quite nicely. Slow and steady, as they say.

Though I have stopped all creative endenvours, maybe for good, I am at last on the right path. By the time I hit the mid-way mark I want to be Oregon, with a full teaching degree and in a house that I own with a dog and a rooster. Either that or a found bag of mafia money.

2007, as crummy as it was, was the first baby step.

You want to teach in Oregon? Don't teach in Portland, or you'll be authoring next year's "I for one will be glad..." thread.

Hehehehe ... Idon'tgetit.

For the most part 2007 sucked - mostly because I was hoping to die in a horrible plane crash on the way back from Walt Disney World. I guess we don't get everything we ask for...

Still haven't found my soul yet. Not really missing it too much and I'm adjusting well I think.

Good things -

- Awesome 10 day trip to Walt Disney World
- Awesome trip to Sequoia
- Bacon on Sequoia Trip
- Mutaytor
- Great Birthday at Goofy's Kitchen
- Gamble House Swanking
- All the babies

You know, Bornieo, that's a damn fine list of positives you have there. I'd have been a happy girl to achieve half of that list, excepting the fiery plane crash, of course.

Well, get thyself some corporate sponsorship if you are inclined to teach in the Big City, that's all I'm saying. Portland considers pencils a luxury. However, they are sales tax free!:snap:

Sh.t, that must've been some mind-blowing bacon!

No, he said he wants to BE Oregon. I applaud his ambition to become an actual state!