Gori the Grey
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I have a feeling JR's not talking about golf.
What did you achieve this year? 2018 edition
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BenitoChavez
What business is it of yours?
- I got a raise at work
- I wrote roughly a bajillion lines of computer code
- I gained 25 pounds
- The various aches and pains in my body seems to have increased
- I traveled outside of the US/Canada for the first time
- I started reading more
- I started playing less video games
- My ongoing quest to learn a foreign language is still ongoing
- I wrote roughly a bajillion lines of computer code
- I gained 25 pounds
- The various aches and pains in my body seems to have increased
- I traveled outside of the US/Canada for the first time
- I started reading more
- I started playing less video games
- My ongoing quest to learn a foreign language is still ongoing
I had an amazing year, that's why I wanted to have this thread 
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Work:
- I defended my PhD
and had an amazing party afterwards
- I published a lot of articles (7 +1 preprint)
- There are 3 high profile articles still in the work (and several less important ones), next year my CV will look awesome
- did again my ceremonial duties at a friends PhD defense. I think we made him a nice movie and he liked the gifts we got him
Love:
- First time I've kissed
- First time I've had sex in a non-commercial setting
- Got a girlfriend
- Broke up with my girlfriend (wasn't too bad)
Sports:
- Ran a half marathon (shoddy time, but still)
- Increased my deadlifting weight to 110 kg
- Fixed my squatting form, now again on the way to 100 kg
Others:
- I visited 5 countries this year, of which I haven't been to 3 before (Luxemburg, Ireland, Finland, Spain, England)
- I kept up my friendships with many people, despite that they have moved away
If I look at my new years resolutions from last year:
- I wanted to get down to 80 kg. Now I'm 95. I'm okay with that
- I wanted to visit more of my friends in different countries, but I guess that was a bit ambitious
- Wanted to ask out a specific girl. Didn't do it, but I know her BF
- I wanted to quit softdrinks. Didn't happen, is maybe okay
- Wanted to have some manuscript done at work, which is still not making much progress. This is bad.
Next year will also be a big year. I'll need to find a new job, which I want to be in a different country. This will pose some challenges for my friendships. I need to finish lots of stuff at work. I want to have more sex. I want to do an obstacle run again. Complicated things, gonna see.
But this year, this year was amazing.
.Work:
- I defended my PhD
and had an amazing party afterwards- I published a lot of articles (7 +1 preprint)
- There are 3 high profile articles still in the work (and several less important ones), next year my CV will look awesome
- did again my ceremonial duties at a friends PhD defense. I think we made him a nice movie and he liked the gifts we got him
Love:
- First time I've kissed
- First time I've had sex in a non-commercial setting
- Got a girlfriend
- Broke up with my girlfriend (wasn't too bad)
Sports:
- Ran a half marathon (shoddy time, but still)
- Increased my deadlifting weight to 110 kg
- Fixed my squatting form, now again on the way to 100 kg
Others:
- I visited 5 countries this year, of which I haven't been to 3 before (Luxemburg, Ireland, Finland, Spain, England)
- I kept up my friendships with many people, despite that they have moved away
If I look at my new years resolutions from last year:
- I wanted to get down to 80 kg. Now I'm 95. I'm okay with that
- I wanted to visit more of my friends in different countries, but I guess that was a bit ambitious
- Wanted to ask out a specific girl. Didn't do it, but I know her BF
- I wanted to quit softdrinks. Didn't happen, is maybe okay
- Wanted to have some manuscript done at work, which is still not making much progress. This is bad.
Next year will also be a big year. I'll need to find a new job, which I want to be in a different country. This will pose some challenges for my friendships. I need to finish lots of stuff at work. I want to have more sex. I want to do an obstacle run again. Complicated things, gonna see.
But this year, this year was amazing
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Catharsis
catch u on the flip scythe
If his playing partners are to be believed, it was mini golf
Two trips to China with prospects for more next year.
Grandsired a very cute granddaughter.
Minimized my work hours while increasing compensation.
Successfully completed a remodeling project done by others.
Leveled two characters to 91.
Grandsired a very cute granddaughter.
Minimized my work hours while increasing compensation.
Successfully completed a remodeling project done by others.
Leveled two characters to 91.
r16
not deity
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x-wing still leads my conjectural engineering but had a satisfying early start with the B-Wing , Queen's ship from Phantom Menace was a nice year end and it's Stuntwoman approved , too . Got to name Ouamuamua for 2018 , but will avoid that as much as possible . And also didn't kick the US out of Syria .
Probably the biggest change is that I'm now a homeownerIt is strange to think about such an absolute flailing jokeperson as myself claiming ownership of square metres of space in this world but yeah I do that now.
Feels good to have a place that's truly yours, doesn't it?
As for my achievements: Not much really, but that's because I've done just about everything I want to do in life so now I'm just enjoying the ride and watching my daughters grow up.
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
TYIM (This Year I've Managed) :
- Got a nice job
- Have been on a great vacation
- Log in on civfanatics ! (after long break)
- Got a nice job
- Have been on a great vacation
- Log in on civfanatics ! (after long break
)
Zkribbler
Deity
I won honorable mention in last quarter's Writer's of the Future contest 
for "Bethlehem Delictum." a near-future / Christmas /time-travel /crime story. 
Thanks to my editor who told me to change it from a story at Christmastime to a Christmas story.
for "Bethlehem Delictum." a near-future / Christmas /time-travel /crime story. Thanks to my editor who told me to change it from a story at Christmastime to a Christmas story.
In chronological order:
-went to London for a week
-won an award for my senior thesis
-finished undergrad
-spent a month in japan; had an amazing time
-worked as a research assistant and found it to be a pretty mixed bag
-had a great time TAing; helped loads of students and created a cool homework assignment that most students seemed to enjoy
-broke up with my girlfriend
-got back together with my girlfriend 6 weeks later
-hunted for jobs but don’t have any offers yet
-almost got a paper published but looks like that’ll have to wait until early 2019
-went to London for a week
-won an award for my senior thesis
-finished undergrad
-spent a month in japan; had an amazing time
-worked as a research assistant and found it to be a pretty mixed bag
-had a great time TAing; helped loads of students and created a cool homework assignment that most students seemed to enjoy
-broke up with my girlfriend
-got back together with my girlfriend 6 weeks later
-hunted for jobs but don’t have any offers yet
-almost got a paper published but looks like that’ll have to wait until early 2019
This was the first year in a long time that I feel was noticeably better than the previous ones.
- I got an MS, finally, a mere 8 years after my first grad school attempt (of 4) began. Not that I feel I earned it, in the sense that I had to drop to the non-thesis option and only barely squeaked through while managing to be one of the few, the proud, the science grad students who rack up 100k of student debt despite the fact that most STEM grad students get fully funded. But whatever - I still got that piece of paper.
- I got a regular full-time job and have done fine at it, as confirmed by my boss on Friday.
- I declared bankruptcy, got through the hearing with no problems a week ago, and will almost certainly get the debts that I had incurred through a manic episode in 2017 discharged. To provide some idea as to how far I had fallen, a successful bankruptcy is a huge step up.
- Although the level of sexual contact I had in 2018 was quite low, and similarly the number of dates I had in 2018 was also very low, both were nonzero, which is better than any time since the spring of 2013, more than five years ago.
- I have become addicted to no new drugs, and have not fallen back into benzodiazepine addiction, a condition that forced me into rehab in October 2017. One relapse did occur but burned itself out almost harmlessly.
- I have some genuine desire to improve myself, and the depressive nihilism that has dominated my thinking since 2012-13 has faded.
- Recent test results have shown that the levels of toxic heavy metals that I used to play with, such as thallium, lead, mercury, cadmium, antimony, uranium, arsenic, etc., have declined to normal levels. I was a little worried there after developing white lines on my toenails - a classic heavy metal poisoning result - and getting a bizarre hair test result early this year. But everything has declined towards normal levels in a more recent test.
- In related news, the NRC does not seem to wish to press any kind of charges or civil fines against me for losing a couple of pieces of polonium.
- No friends or family died in the past two years, beating out 2014 (when my mom, a lifetime nonsmoker, died of lung cancer) and 2016 (when a friend I made on the 2015 ayahuasca trip that almost certainly saved my life died in a freak fall during a later ayahuasca trip). Shine on, Lindsay, you crazy diamond.
* I had my second daughter. Well, I didn't HAVE her. But I helped. 2019 GOAL is to get her to sleep more often.
* Bought a house for the first time! 2019 GOAL is to learn to fix more of the things that keep breaking
* Learned some basic woodworking. Nearly cut my thumb off to start the year, but have now made a few benches and a nice end table.
* I helped organize my office, and served as a union officer for a little bit, which was very rewarding, before accepting a promotion to management, which has been a different kind of rewarding
* I helped write this, which I think is cool
* Bought a house for the first time! 2019 GOAL is to learn to fix more of the things that keep breaking
* Learned some basic woodworking. Nearly cut my thumb off to start the year, but have now made a few benches and a nice end table.
* I helped organize my office, and served as a union officer for a little bit, which was very rewarding, before accepting a promotion to management, which has been a different kind of rewarding
* I helped write this, which I think is cool
I'm now a published (co-)writer and got paid for articles several times.
Also got a permanent promotion at work after several years of only acting on those higher level duties.
Also doubled the number of cats in our apartment after my wife rescued a starving little wretch from under a tree.
Also got a permanent promotion at work after several years of only acting on those higher level duties.
Also doubled the number of cats in our apartment after my wife rescued a starving little wretch from under a tree.
Very nice and I don't even watch football. But I do enjoy powerful presentations of complex information that is easy to access and understand.
hobbsyoyo
Deity
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It was a big year for me.
I convinced the executives at my company to create a new group and put me in charge of it. Right now I'm the only person in the group but we should hire people under me in the new year. I've also proven the worth of the new group and have generally impressed people at the top of the company with my work ethic and attention to detail. I am just two and a half years out of school I am already working my dream job and I am very satisfied with it.
I paid off nearly $20k in credit card debt, saved up a healthy emergency fund and am in position to pay off student loans in short order. On top of all that, I've been able to live a very comfortable life and for the first time became fully financially independent.
I think I am mostly over my extreme fear of flying. I took a long, happy vacation in Hawaii at the end of the year and by the time I was half way into the final flight I found myself reflecting on my fear and feeling it foolish. I mean that I really felt that way and didn't just think that way in an abstract manner. So hopefully that is behind me because it looks like I will have to travel to San Francisco in the near future.
I lost an additional 20 pounds this year after losing 20 the year before. I began working out (lifting) 3 times a week and have kept up my normal walking routine.
Bad Stuff - I threw out my back twice this year where previously I did it at most once a year. Honestly that is pretty much it as far as notable bad stuff goes.
New Years Resolutions: Lose 40 pounds, suffer no back throw-outs and hire a team to design rocket engines with me. I also want to have a baby this year and meet with a financial planner to coordinate paying off debts and investing in retirement funds.
I convinced the executives at my company to create a new group and put me in charge of it. Right now I'm the only person in the group but we should hire people under me in the new year. I've also proven the worth of the new group and have generally impressed people at the top of the company with my work ethic and attention to detail. I am just two and a half years out of school I am already working my dream job and I am very satisfied with it.
I paid off nearly $20k in credit card debt, saved up a healthy emergency fund and am in position to pay off student loans in short order. On top of all that, I've been able to live a very comfortable life and for the first time became fully financially independent.
I think I am mostly over my extreme fear of flying. I took a long, happy vacation in Hawaii at the end of the year and by the time I was half way into the final flight I found myself reflecting on my fear and feeling it foolish. I mean that I really felt that way and didn't just think that way in an abstract manner. So hopefully that is behind me because it looks like I will have to travel to San Francisco in the near future.
I lost an additional 20 pounds this year after losing 20 the year before. I began working out (lifting) 3 times a week and have kept up my normal walking routine.
Bad Stuff - I threw out my back twice this year where previously I did it at most once a year. Honestly that is pretty much it as far as notable bad stuff goes.
New Years Resolutions: Lose 40 pounds, suffer no back throw-outs and hire a team to design rocket engines with me. I also want to have a baby this year and meet with a financial planner to coordinate paying off debts and investing in retirement funds.
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GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
I’ve only just started rebuilding my life, in late December 
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No time like the present to make changes.I’ve only just started rebuilding my life, in late December
dusters
Emperor
Pros
*Things with my partner are going even better, communication has improved
*Started studying classical philology. I hope I finish this. My classmates in university are pretty good
*Just a week ago finally got papers for my disability. It means a lot more income and public transport among other things is free now.
*Teaching mathemathics for like 6th year now. I feel stable with this. Not many pupils, but I get along with them well.
*Relationship with my mom (who was really against my hormone therapy in previous years) is quite good
*Restarted with esoteric studies, learned a lot
*Started drawing a lot more
Cons
*My health is as bad as year ago. Still living daily with +37.2 C / 99 F which means I have been half-sick/ill for nearly two years non-stop
*Psychiatrists trying to find suitable drugs for me and in whole year we tried like 6 different ones, all made me feel worse.
*Transition is going really slowly. While most male-to-female people experience facial changes in the first 9 months of hormone therapy, after 22 months still nearly no changes for me
*I quit math studies at the start of this year. My brain is too damaged from all the depression it had to go through and I can't do heavy intellectual work anymore.
*On my bad days I still feel lonely and sick and uncertain about the future. I'm sure I want to become a professor, but I'm yet to realise what department in
humanities would be the best for me.
*Things with my partner are going even better, communication has improved
*Started studying classical philology. I hope I finish this. My classmates in university are pretty good
*Just a week ago finally got papers for my disability. It means a lot more income and public transport among other things is free now.
*Teaching mathemathics for like 6th year now. I feel stable with this. Not many pupils, but I get along with them well.
*Relationship with my mom (who was really against my hormone therapy in previous years) is quite good
*Restarted with esoteric studies, learned a lot
*Started drawing a lot more
Cons
*My health is as bad as year ago. Still living daily with +37.2 C / 99 F which means I have been half-sick/ill for nearly two years non-stop
*Psychiatrists trying to find suitable drugs for me and in whole year we tried like 6 different ones, all made me feel worse.
*Transition is going really slowly. While most male-to-female people experience facial changes in the first 9 months of hormone therapy, after 22 months still nearly no changes for me
*I quit math studies at the start of this year. My brain is too damaged from all the depression it had to go through and I can't do heavy intellectual work anymore.
*On my bad days I still feel lonely and sick and uncertain about the future. I'm sure I want to become a professor, but I'm yet to realise what department in
humanities would be the best for me.
