Phew!

It has been... well... it's been a year.  A rough one at that.  I've never really been particularly averse to the number 13, but in retrospect, I've had the kind of year that probably would have warranted a little triskaidekaphobia.  While each month seemed to come with something new to try to beat me down, over the course of the year, continued self-discovery has allowed me to get back up and keep going.

Of course, there's been a lot of actual positive for me this year, too.  I continue to teach and make progress toward my master's degree.  And though my life is still in quite a period of transition, it's a lot more stable than it was not too long ago, and I've been making a lot of progress toward personal goals as well.  So, while I don't have a lot of grand events to look back on here, all in all, I'm pretty pleased with how I'm coming out from this year.

It's still been really busy, so all I have time left to mention is that I've scarfed down my New Year's Eve Nachos and I'm ready to ring in 2014.  Here's to no longer having to fail to write legible "threes" at the end of the date.

Random tangent: The Carson Daly pre-show this year was getting so uninteresting we actually had to switch to a Seinfeld rerun.