Review of 2005

[simont]

(Well, it's vaguely traditional around this time of year and everyone else is doing it…)

For me 2005 has, in almost all respects, been a year in which virtually nothing has happened. I'm still living in the same flat, doing the same job, driving the same car, and going to the same pub and social events with pretty much the same people. I was single when the year began, I've remained single throughout it, and I'm single now. In fact, I think my love life has been more of a flatline this year than any previous year since 1995: this year I spent a grand total of about five minutes snogging somebody, and that was pretty much it.

(There are admittedly four hours left in 2005, as I write this, and I'm planning to spend most of them at parties. Hence that figure of five minutes is at least theoretically capable of increasing by about a factor of forty before being finalised; but I wouldn't bet on it!)

The biggest thing that happened to me this year was being diagnosed with coeliac disease in February. This has caused me a wide range of minor annoyances with regard to finding appropriate food, but since I was mostly cooking for myself already and could never much be bothered with bread or pasta in any case it's been less of a headache than it might have been. The most noticeable single consequence is that I almost never eat out any more, which has slightly impacted my social life.

The other thing I did was to go on a longish break from my major leisure activity of writing free software, on the basis that I was running out of energy from trying to pursue that and a job and a social life at the same time. My vague plan is to resume it some time in the second half of next year, but that will depend on how I feel by then. But even that, although it represents a change in my life, doesn't really break the general theme of nothing happening in 2005, since it involves even more nothing happening!

So, that was 2005. Health deteriorated, hobby activities declined, nothing else changed at all. I'm sure it could have been a lot worse, but I doubt it could have been a lot less interesting.

Comments

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

Evidently the Chinese think you're OK, and haven't decided to curse you one little bit this year.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you going to change your Bio ("... eats cheese ..."), or can you still do so?

[simont]

Cheese, thankfully, is still perfectly OK, and in fact more important than ever since (apparently) coeliacs tend to be at risk of calcium deficiency. So yes, I still eat cheese :-)