2015
Everybody has to write one of these, don’t they?
Let’s see. What happened in 2015? It might be just writing at this time of the year, but in my head, the year was categorised by stress. Which is weird, because in 2014 I:
- wrote two plays,
- performed in two productions,
- published and launched my first novel,
- completed a certificate III in Game Design,
- holidayed in Halls Gap,
- turned 40 and was painted into the TARDIS,
- created a CGI opening for the school production which almost killed me,
- saw my daughter perform at the Melbourne Arts Centre,
- had our first cancer scare with our dog Amy and then
- lost my grandfather to cancer (which doesn’t seem that long ago).
They were huge things, and very draining. And still, I finished this year completely shattered and I’m just getting out of it now, after a good few days down at Dromana soaking in the ocean (my calm down place). My 2015 list on the face of it is much longer. This year I:
- Wrote a book starring my daughter as a werewolf
- Saw They Might Be Giants (again)
- Watched my lovely wife graduate from university
- Ran the school radio show and podcast for a year
- Spent a week in Sydney
- Ramped up the school 3D printing program
- Started learning to program in Python
- Got my debating team into the finals
- Had a number of articles published in educational journals
- Had a reunion of the Five
- Fixed the shower head
- Ran the sound for Macbeth
- Wrote half a dozen stories for a sequel to Dwarves in Space and found them mostly awful
- Discovered Netflix and Stan and Presto
- Had a Marvel Universe movie marathon
- Went to a number of art galleries
- Attended a few Guides functions
- Started an educational blog
- Read the Harper Lee sequel nobody thought would ever happen
- Flew in a very old bi-plane
- Finished my wedding video – three years on
- Celebrated Grandma’s 90th
And that’s just the ones that come to mind going back through my photo gallery. Of those, they were all incredibly positive, life affirming and creative pursuits, which didn’t bring me down in the slightest. So why am I so mentally exhausted?
I think all that I can say is: don’t get involved in politics in the workplace. Just do your own job as well as you can and let what’s up top run itself.
I just wish I believed that was a good idea. Anyway, as always, I promise I will write more in 2016. And I have actual things in place to make that happen. AND I did actually write a lot in 2015 – just not on FindingDamo.
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