2012 year in review

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People have started putting up year in review posts, and that reminded me that I should try to get to mine while it's still actually 2012! It's been quite a year, mostly dominated by getting married, and also by stepping up to new responsibilities at work.

Significant events:

• I never thought I'd find myself posting this, but I got married!
• So did jack's friends TM and RB, and so did mobbsy and sonicdrift
• I acquired a little bit of funding for research and started supervising a PhD student. I also got my position confirmed so I now have a permanent lecturer job.
• I visited Croatia with jack
• I walked to Rivendell, and then I trained myself to run over two miles using the brilliant c25k programme.

Places:

• Stoke-on-Trent
• Cambridge
• Croatia
• Brighton
• Derbyshire

It's not been much of a year for travelling, I've been something of a homebody, partly because the wedding took up all my logistical energy. I had hoped to make it to some cons and just couldn't fit it in. Oh well, there's always next year.

Books:

• Geoff Ryman: The king's last song
• Edmund de Waal: The hare with amber eyes
• James SA Corey: Leviathan Wakes
• Ian McDonald: Kirinya
• Chris Moriarty: Spin control

Music:

• The Imagined Village: Space girl
• Peggy Seeger: I'm gonna be an engineer
• Jem: Just a ride
• Frida Hyvonen: Birds
• Alina Hardin: Ambervision

Notable posts:

• siderea: Mental health awareness
• marina: Me and "Lolita" and why that book is so important
• janice_lester: Give sexy actors sexy wheelchairs!
• rmc28: Can we stop colour-coding children yet?
• azurelunatic: Planning parties for introverts

My posts:

• Innocence
• So what is religion for, anyway?
• Efficient charitable giving
• Health manifesto
• They've discovered the cure for cancer, but it can't be patented, so it's being suppressed!

Wonderful friends:

• rysmiel
• angelofthenorth
• hatam_soferet
• doseybat
• jack

People I love and wish I'd seen more of:

• MK
• lethargic_man
• loreid
• darcydodo
• blue_mai

People I'm really glad I got to know better:

• ceb
• JB and DMB
• mirrorshard
• rmc28
• ghoti

New to the d-roll:

• pretty_panther
• highlyeccentric
• adam_in_rabbinical_school
• legionseagle
• elf

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Comments

[forestofglory]

Congrats on having your position confirmed! (If you posted about it before and I missed it sorry.) I hope your PhD student is still awesome, and that the research is going well.

(I'm excited about my own research right now because I get to go to an archive!)

[pretty_panther]

Congratulations on getting married! I hadn't realised it was this year ♥

I do love the format of this post. It is nicely put together and easy to follow :)

[ceb]

d'awwww :-)

It has been great getting to know you too!

[mirrorshard]

Thank you! I'm really pleased to be getting to know you better, too, and we must try & spend some quality time together next year.

[blue_mai]

see you next year, my dear x