So, this time last year vs now in your life

So I maybe had the idea I'd still be with her, as it is I'm back to doing what I was doing and little has changed.

I never thought I'd have sussed C++ out by now though which I have, so yeh!

This year - packed in horrid old job, have new enjoyable and rewarding job, got promoted last week = happy me = nicer person all round I think. Yay!

i'm in uni too, so this is definitely what i expected

Same locale and job, more friends met, new experiences, generally feeling better on a number of fronts. Works for me!

And yes, a very worthwhile change.

2004: Full-time student, part-time worker, lots of money, living in a high-rise apartment building in Midtown. New album, lots of websites, etc etc. Feels like i finally got my shit together.

I'm definitely in a better situation now.

2004: not so fed up at really.

even years are often better than odds I find.

2004: Feeling like I'm just waking up after a three-year-long nightmare, vacillating between emotional highs and lows, finally feeling contentment in certain areas of my life, burned out, feeling like I can turn to and trust several more people.

"Now in my life" seems to win out here.

2004: After a year of lies and kinky couch sex and bad music and Hollywood bullshit, I'm about to end my lease on my two-bedroom apartment as of September 30th, looking around for one-bedrooms, working two jobs at once in order to save money, excited about the prospect of living alone.

overall, for the best.

2004: complete opposite of all the above

this time 2004: better, healthier, looking forwards to some large career changes.

September 2004: looking for an apartment. Stressed the eyeballs. Finally got a job, though. Hopeful.

This year: working in a FUCKING SHIT BASTARD company earning only a smidge more than last year and still struggling to pay back my overdraft from uni. I've paid about half of it back since last year. Maybe one day I'll be able to afford to learn to drive/move out of my dad's/actually pay him rent on time. But not at the moment.

2003 me would've paid $100 more for same, haggling not so much of a priority

it's a draw

2004: formally withdrawn from university, still working the same job full-time on an extremely stressful project, back 'together' with my girlfriend and much happier, more communicative, more relaxed, seeing my psychologist once-every-2-weeks, moving back into may parents place and looking forward to it.

I've come a long way since 2003, learnt a lot about myself, but I've still got some pretty important things to get over. I'm going to go overseas at the end of the year and hope to spend around 6 months settled somewhere cheap writing music. Fingers crossed.

2004: only a few sunflowers this year- I wasn't around enough to water them very often. saw Boy about a month ago, still no idea how we made it through this past year. bought some HUGE red dahlias at Pike Place Market this morning and 5.5 oz glasses at Williams-Sonoma this afternoon for scotch. still thinking about moving to Boston.

2004: still in cheap nasty flat (not that nasty really), halfway through masters, in slightly better financial situation, less anxious, still with M and not expecting to get married any time soon.

2004 - Going back to school, living in much pimpinger pad, CRAZY healthy no Bobby whatsoever and I only party one night a week, SLACK ass but high profile fun niggaabouttown kinda job, excellent booty prospects, ever-improving friend-management skills. Fuck 2003, 2004 is turning for greatness byaaaaatchizzzz

oh. I see. Ouch. I'm sorry I said anthing.

September 2004 - employed, depressed, and horrifically dumped and divorced.

Transient as it was, at this point, I think I'd rather still feel loved. :-(

2004 - after being kicked out of rented house cos the landlord was selling had to move into another, more expensive, less appealing, rented house. Now living in my own house (not the one from above) with my boy & my 2 kittens. I am totally happy & am just looking for the next thing that I can all stressed about!

I'm now living with my best mate, and not with a violent misogynistic sexual deviant. I have a few cool new friends, and know a few other people a lot better. And I'm no longer in a soul-destroying psuedo-relationship. And that's it, basically.

Overall, I think things are better now. Although not as much better as I'd like them to be. There's been a lot of fun had on the way though.

September 2003 - no band, in fact, on the eve of the most promising offer, my bandmate completely slacked out, and fucked it all up for me. Depressed and feeling inadequate every time I meet people who share my former interests.

September 2004 - got together with other musicians who had *also* been slacked out on by the same person, and we've now got gigs booked and everything. Also, have actually enrolled in maths course at local college with an aim to going back to Uni, instead of just feeling inadequate and changing the topic when people talk about stuff I'm interested in.

xpost the structual similarity with stevie's post was coincidental

Sept 04 - Sarah now lives with me and our relationship is happier, deeper and we understand each other a lot better. I have one grandparent fewer, but she had a good innings. I have afull time job, and though it frequently worries me, at least I seem to be heading in the right direction. I'm still too lazy though.

Marks out of ten: 2003 6, 2004 7. So an improvement.

And I still have this irrational feeling that I am waiting for life to start.

ha!

Oct. 04. Same job - but just coasting, product launched and done with. Passed exams - no more college. In a band, playing a new instrument, doing loads of gigs! FUN!

september 2004: wishing i were on a roadtrip, but not much else has changed. i moved into a nicer flat with a friend, which is really nice. same job, although i've been seconded to another job part time. finally severed the thing with that boy after giving it one more shot. single, and quite enjoying it. some of the drama over the last few months has settled down, and have had a really good summer all around.