No idea if I'll be able to continue this...

...but I thought I'd try this Reverb10 thing for as long as I feel like writing stuff. 

Today's prompt:

One Word. Encapsulate the year 2010 in one word.
Explain why you're choosing that word.
Now, imagine it's one year from today,
what would you like the word to be that captures 2011 for you?

The best answer I could come up with for 2010 was:

Pressure.

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, mind you (after all, pressure is what turns carbon into diamonds, right? right?). But it has all felt a bit unrelenting - just a kind of constant flow of work and learning and trying to keep up with everything.

As for 2011, the word I come up with is:

Resolution.

I mean that as a process rather than a quality - what I mean is that I'd like to start to resolve a lot of things about my life: what I want to do with my career, where I want to live, what I want to work toward in the future. 

So there you go. That was much less in-depth than I thought it might be, but it's all I've got with finals looming. 

Comments

[loyal reader]

So you don't want to practice where you live right now? Would you move out of state?

[New Kid on the Hallway]

I don't not want to practice here - in a lot of ways I'd be thrilled to do so. But if I could, I would love to work for the Feds, which often means working in DC, which I would do if I could swing it. Plus, it's possible that NLLDH might want to make a change in the future. But really, "where I want to live" really means, do we buy a house and where?? (and even if we don't buy, we plan to get out of this apartment!)