Wow. 2006 already. Time for resolutions and so on, if I did those sort of things
2005 was pretty good for me. Amy graduated from her master’s program, and we wrapped up our short stay in Cambridge, Mass., to return to Santa Barbara. I was lucky enough that Peoples’ Self-Help Housing took me back onboard as an employee, and allowed me to work with a somewhat undetermined date of termination. I got a chance to practice my web-design skills in a professional setting, and I think this helped me improve a lot. I learned how to build cigar box and cookie tin guitars, and how to make my own hand-drum with a goat-skin head. Lots of little things throughout the year, so that was pretty cool….
I’m looking forward to 2006 in India. People often ask me if I’m nervous about moving to India when I tell them where I’m going. I really am not. The thing that would probably scare me the most is losing friends. But fortunately, I’ve been lucky enough to have a handful of extremely amazing friends for whom distance is not a barrier to continued friendship. And as long as I’m with Amy, I know that I can survive anything.
So, I’m expecting to be an uncle in 2006 too. Pretty exciting stuff, although it is still kind of hard to imagine myself as an uncle…. I wonder how my brother is surviving visualizing himself as a father. Amy always says that when we have kids she knows that she’s going to end up being the disciplinarian, and I’m going to be the one rolling around on the floor with them…. I dunno. I feel pretty certain that I can do both.
According to G’pa, though, I’d better get started soon. I mentioned that Kiran and Joby were getting ready to have a baby soon, and that he would soon be a great-grandfather. “Well well,” he said. “And what about you? What are you waiting for? You don’t want to wait too long, otherwise when they are between 13 and 17 years old you are too old and set in your ways to be able to relate to them….” This coming from the man who sent his kids away to boarding school in England…. But it’s still fun to see him concerned about it….”
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Happy New Year 2006
Wow. 2006 already. Time for resolutions and so on, if I did those sort of things
2005 was pretty good for me. Amy graduated from her master’s program, and we wrapped up our short stay in Cambridge, Mass., to return to Santa Barbara. I was lucky enough that Peoples’ Self-Help Housing took me back onboard as an employee, and allowed me to work with a somewhat undetermined date of termination. I got a chance to practice my web-design skills in a professional setting, and I think this helped me improve a lot. I learned how to build cigar box and cookie tin guitars, and how to make my own hand-drum with a goat-skin head. Lots of little things throughout the year, so that was pretty cool….
I’m looking forward to 2006 in India. People often ask me if I’m nervous about moving to India when I tell them where I’m going. I really am not. The thing that would probably scare me the most is losing friends. But fortunately, I’ve been lucky enough to have a handful of extremely amazing friends for whom distance is not a barrier to continued friendship. And as long as I’m with Amy, I know that I can survive anything.
So, I’m expecting to be an uncle in 2006 too. Pretty exciting stuff, although it is still kind of hard to imagine myself as an uncle…. I wonder how my brother is surviving visualizing himself as a father. Amy always says that when we have kids she knows that she’s going to end up being the disciplinarian, and I’m going to be the one rolling around on the floor with them…. I dunno. I feel pretty certain that I can do both.
According to G’pa, though, I’d better get started soon. I mentioned that Kiran and Joby were getting ready to have a baby soon, and that he would soon be a great-grandfather. “Well well,” he said. “And what about you? What are you waiting for? You don’t want to wait too long, otherwise when they are between 13 and 17 years old you are too old and set in your ways to be able to relate to them….” This coming from the man who sent his kids away to boarding school in England…. But it’s still fun to see him concerned about it….”
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