New Year's Eve / あけおめ〜

I nearly let a whole month pass by without writing at all (save a few pages for the dissertation...but what does that count?). And it's already New Year's Eve!

The end of one year is a time for cleaning and sorting, organizing and preparing, anticipating what is coming up in the beginning of the next year. The way I approach the end/beginning of years has evolved in the past decade, but I usually find myself making up a clean to-do list and a list of resolutions.

As always, my New Year's Resolutions include "stop swearing" and "maintain better posture", but beyond that I do believe I am taking the Year 2014 fairly easy and just kind of...enjoying life as it comes. Somehow that is usually easier said than done, but I am going to try really, really hard this time. And maybe stop swearing for the first week or two.

皆様、明けましておめでとうございます。こちらのブログはいつもの様にテレテレと更新させて頂きますが、今年もよろしくお願い致します。