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  Tuesday, July 1, 2003

Accomplishments

I had lunch today with a dear friend and former-coworker. She left the Center about eight months ago and occasionally we catch up and talk about pretty much anything. Today, we had an interesting discussion about accomplishments. I've been out of college for just over three years. June 28th was my 2 year anniversary with the Center (has it really been that long?) and I am feeling a bit stagnant, like I haven't accomplished much. But, she and I discussed what exactly it is that I have accomplished.

I moved 3000 miles from home and have yet to go broke. This represents a major accomplishment because the job I was supposed to have when I first got here vanished with the dotcom bust.

I have a healthy relationship for the first time in my life. What's past was clearly not healthy at all.

I have a job that for the most part does not suck, has allowed me some growth, has given me responsibilities and projects and has provided me with numerous frequent flyer miles and AmEx Membership Rewards points.

I am doing more with music than I ever expected to. As a part-time musician I'm getting paid for singing for the first time in my life. Singing with Choralis and Echos have also made all the difference in my sanity levels. We just got the Elijah CD back from the pressers and listening to it in the car on Friday, I was moved. I've never been a part of something that sounded like I could buy it from a music store before. I know that sounds bad, but to me, it's a big deal.

With such an emphasis on the accomplishments that are utterly extraordinary, we have to keep ourselves grounded in what we have done. That society places value only on the superheroes, and not the average people who work day-in and day-out. I think that's the power of the blog, at the end of the day. I don't have to read about the superheroes, I can read about people like me. I like that.

So, what's next? I don't know. Maybe owning my own place? Maybe grad school? We'll have to see.
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