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31st-Dec-2007 06:58 pm - 2007 in Review

So another year draws to an end. What've been the highlights of 2007 and what would I rather just forget about and leave behind? Let's look.

2007 saw me pass my 3rd year and enter my 4th at Uni. I'm glad I took that extra discrete methods course now, as it made up the shortfall after I failed AI, twice. Now on the last stretch towards graduation and accomplishing something I started nearly 4 years ago. How time's flown.

Medically, 2007 was a rather up and down sort of year. Finally getting my butt in gear in June and realising the constant high codeine intake was just driving me around in circles, I nearly died for two weeks from withdrawal in July, but things picked up in August and are now on a fairly even keel with the dreaded 'C' word nearly out of my system. On the down side though, I was diagnosed with Raynaud's phenomenon in November, but offsetting that was the prognosis that the pains in my feet are probably not neurological, not that we have any more of an idea what they are than we had ten years ago.

It's been a year of tech for me, with me buying the parts for my new computer (still to be set up) in Feburary, a new laptop in October and finally getting mobile on the net towards the end of summer. I properly broke in my N91 cell phone in April, got out from O2's clutches in August and joined the T-Mobile fan club. ADSL went hypersonic at 8Mbps in the spring, I became even more geeky when it comes to Linux and VoIP re-acquainted itself with me just before Christmas. I started on a new novel, worked on some existing ones (though not all that much) and boosted my song collection by about a half dozen.

And what of the social life? I made a few new friends, caught up with some old ones and became a little more open and less reserved under the tender mercies of a few truly bless'ed souls. Ah, what it is to feel loved. I also spread my wings a bit, Scandinavia welcomed me over Easter, I sweated out a month in Tanzania just before Uni fired up in September and attended a Java sitting across the pond along with a few finance workshops in my own domicile.

But thoughts of money can never be too far away, and financially this year was, let's face it, a flop. A few weeks on the high with CFD's quickly turned sour, the number of credit cards with debts on them soon doubled and the stock market and associated shareholdings suffered through more turbulence than in a Mid-West hurricane. Interest rates went up, liquidity went down and the frown on my stockbroker's face, despite having never met him, most assuredly grew larger.

So what's on the cards for 2008? Well, of course to make life better than this year and with room to spare. I want to graduate, to find some well-earned and hopefully well-paying employment, and above all to cut the word procrastination completely from my list of attributable attributes. I'm told by a (hopefully) reliable source that 2008 is the year for love and relationships, so fingers crossed on that score. Other than that, I'll be content to remain happy, and hopefully to have just as rosy a picture to paint for you in another 366 days time.

Happy New Year, have a great one!

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