Ah well, here I am again, pretty much where I've been most of this year. Sat behind my PC, late at night, not really doing much. It's the early hours of what I could accurately consider to be the "last day of the year". That year being the academic year of course. Today (or rather tomorrow as I will be sleeping soon) I'll do pretty much nothing although I'll probably go to bed earlier than usual as I've got college on monday.

This time last year I was in "a situation". I had failed the previous year of college and had chosen to retake the year in order to try and improve my grades. I knew pretty much nobody, I was pissed off, upset and bored all at the same time. I did however want to make sure I didn't make the same mistake again. Life felt bleak. I'm not going to say I was depressed or anything because I suspect it would take a lot more than this to "depress" me and my jovial stance on life but yeah, it was bleak.

1 year later, I've mostly reversed my fortunes. My grades this year were *vastly* better than last years and I actually did some work this year as opposed to bumming around and not really doing anything at all. All the while, I've made lots of new friends, some of which I'd like to keep forever, others... not so much. I've got rid of some people I should've done a long time ago and some that I probably shouldn't have done but meh, things happen. I've laughed, cried, shouted and screamed. Done things that I shouldn't have done and not done stuff I should have but looking back, I wouldn't have it any other way.

This year has turned out so much better than I could've dreamed and hopefully, I'm all set to go where I want in my life. Maybe I'll take some people with me but that depends as much on them as it does on me.

Anyway, I'm feeling quite tired now so I think I'll sumarise.

Accomplishments:
Made some really good friendships
Broken off some that were not so good
Picked my life out of the gutter and repaired it to a useable state
Taken up photography (have to say I'm really enjoying it so far )
Done things that I wouldn't have had the confidence or the motivation to do a year ago.

I'm not going to bother listing my failures as thinking about them will probably just bum me out so instead I'm going to list what I intend to do this year.

Plans:
Get into a university I want to go to in order to do a Physics degree
Get a job
Construct the ultimate playlist (this could be a lifetime achievement rather than a 1 year thing)
Stay friends/in contact with the people who actually matter to me

Well, I can't really be bothered writing any more right now but yeah, I'd be majorly screwed now if it weren't for some of the people very loosely mentioned in the previous paragraphs and although I probably won't thank (most of) you to your face for what you've for me, I'm greatful. This has been the best year of my life so far and hopefully I've got a lot more ahead of me. Wish me luck in 09-10, I'm probably going to need it.

G'night everyone.