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Life update + 2019 retrospective
6 years ago
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2019 went by pretty fast, didn't it?
For me, it was quite the ride of a year. I was thinking I'd sorta go through and recount some of the things that happened, but I can't shake feeling like it coming across as that overly polished humblebraggy "look at how awesome my life is" sorta thing so typical to social media. That is not my intention.
However, as general update, last January I started working at my current job. The next month following that I moved to a different city for that job. It's been an interesting experience, sort of starting entirely anew somewhere else, yet still at the same time not really. Fast forward a bit, right around my birthday in Autumn, I finally graduated with my bachelor's degree. I still have the option of going back to studying and doing a master's, but right now in both short and long term the benefit to it if I keep doing what I'm doing is questionable. Luckily, I am not in an immediate rush to have to make that decision.
Okay, that's with the immediately boring irl background stuff. Big changes, right! What else happened? I did quite a bit of traveling across the year. Some of it for fun, some of it for work. Some highlights of those I'd say (outside of con trips) were definitely China and Poland. When it comes to conventions and furry events, this year had a good few - it started with Furvester in Germany where I was invited, followed by Northern Lights Furdance & Animals@Play, FinFur Animus and Eurofurence.
On the non-furry front I went to a lot of different concerts and shows: Devin Townsend, Soen, Wheel, Poets of the Fall, Vesterinen Yhteyineen and some others. I finally let go of my old Mazda that I'd been driving since getting my license in 2013, dubbed the Coonmobile, and got myself a bit newer Hyundai that found the name Coonmobile 3.0. ...and let's not talk about the 2.0.
When it comes into hobbies, DJ'ing I've kept up relatively actively. I played at a good few events as well as in Second Life. Photography, aside from being in charge of that side of things at Animus, I've not done too much on, but I did shoot and edit a couple work related video projects I'm quite happy about. New old things I've been getting back into are both historical fencing/HEMA and hitting the gym regularly. Those, and of course Beat Saber, have been keeping me in pretty okay fit. I could shave off a kilo or few, but all in all I am feeling quite good about where I'm at.
I've also had the pleasure of forming many new and close friendships this year. I consider myself extremely privileged to have the people around me that I do. I'm not going to list anyone here because this is not a contest, but you know who you are. I appreciate and value you immensely.
With that wall of text (that went on for a lot longer than I intended it to) out of the way, how was your 2019? What are you aiming for in 2020?
For me, it was quite the ride of a year. I was thinking I'd sorta go through and recount some of the things that happened, but I can't shake feeling like it coming across as that overly polished humblebraggy "look at how awesome my life is" sorta thing so typical to social media. That is not my intention.
However, as general update, last January I started working at my current job. The next month following that I moved to a different city for that job. It's been an interesting experience, sort of starting entirely anew somewhere else, yet still at the same time not really. Fast forward a bit, right around my birthday in Autumn, I finally graduated with my bachelor's degree. I still have the option of going back to studying and doing a master's, but right now in both short and long term the benefit to it if I keep doing what I'm doing is questionable. Luckily, I am not in an immediate rush to have to make that decision.
Okay, that's with the immediately boring irl background stuff. Big changes, right! What else happened? I did quite a bit of traveling across the year. Some of it for fun, some of it for work. Some highlights of those I'd say (outside of con trips) were definitely China and Poland. When it comes to conventions and furry events, this year had a good few - it started with Furvester in Germany where I was invited, followed by Northern Lights Furdance & Animals@Play, FinFur Animus and Eurofurence.
On the non-furry front I went to a lot of different concerts and shows: Devin Townsend, Soen, Wheel, Poets of the Fall, Vesterinen Yhteyineen and some others. I finally let go of my old Mazda that I'd been driving since getting my license in 2013, dubbed the Coonmobile, and got myself a bit newer Hyundai that found the name Coonmobile 3.0. ...and let's not talk about the 2.0.
When it comes into hobbies, DJ'ing I've kept up relatively actively. I played at a good few events as well as in Second Life. Photography, aside from being in charge of that side of things at Animus, I've not done too much on, but I did shoot and edit a couple work related video projects I'm quite happy about. New old things I've been getting back into are both historical fencing/HEMA and hitting the gym regularly. Those, and of course Beat Saber, have been keeping me in pretty okay fit. I could shave off a kilo or few, but all in all I am feeling quite good about where I'm at.
I've also had the pleasure of forming many new and close friendships this year. I consider myself extremely privileged to have the people around me that I do. I'm not going to list anyone here because this is not a contest, but you know who you are. I appreciate and value you immensely.
With that wall of text (that went on for a lot longer than I intended it to) out of the way, how was your 2019? What are you aiming for in 2020?
