I never fully believe it's the new year until I start school and work for the first time. In this way, 2012 has snuck up and surprised me today.
As for you, dear blog (and of course my multitudes of fans), I'm so sorry for having neglected you, leaving you rejected and forgotten. But no more of this! I think my frequency to write follows a negative parabolic pattern: no writing when I become too busy and no writing when I become too free. So good news! I'm back in school, guaranteeing at least a meager correspondence. Can we just be ok with that for now? Consider this my 2012 resolution.
As a brief recap, I finished my first semester of medical school, and of course in perfect timing, I performed in a few Christmas concerts the weekend before exams. I also got to see some very far-away friends who were able to make the pilgrimage back to Michigan every year-end.
I was conned into dog-sitting for a classmate and let's just say, that was perhaps one of the most trying weeks of my life (and my family's), even if the psychotically needy dog was pretty cute.
My family and I went to NYC to spend the week between Christmas and New Years with my cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandmother - always such a good time though the dynamics and details change in both significant and subtle ways as we get older.
Maybe now you can understand why that I didn't have time to write. But perhaps to be fair, I shouldn't say "time to write" and instead I should say "spirit to write". I think I was much more focused on relaxing and enjoying the precious 2 weeks of holiday break, resting and absorbing all the good things that come with an extended period of minimal responsibility. Anyway, this is the stuff that I fall asleep to when life inevitably starts back up and startles me into submission. Nevertheless, I promise to be better this year.
PS. Sugar Bowl from New Orleans tonight! Geaux Blue!
