We make resolutions, and some of us the same ones ... save money, lose weight, exercise more. I feel like I just roll my resolutions over. Last year it was go on a mountaineering adventure and finish graduate school. And the latter was a resolution I had from 2007. Well what did I do that was new in 2008? Here they go:
1. Did my first gully climb, in New Hampshire
2. Did my first winter alpine ascent, on Mt. Katahdin, Maine (unfortunately this did not meet my threshold for a mountaineering adventure as my other requirement for it was to be at altitude)
3. Bought a sports car, a very expensive sports car
4. Lived in another Middle Eastern country, but not one in a war
5. Took my first trad leader fall on Laurel at the Gunks (red C3 caught me but also took up my precious handhold for the crux move)
6. Finished my graduate degree
7. Passed the bloody GWU Arabic assessment after 9 weeks of language study hell at Middlebury
8. Climbed the longest single technical route in a day ... 800+ feet, swapping leads on the Standard Route, White Horse Ledges, New Hampshire
9. Hiked up the tallest peak in NY and didn't even see it (spectacles iced over on Mt. Marcy)
10. Shot a long gun, repeatedly for days
11. Learned to give someone intravenous fluid, and actually prepped and poked someone to achieve said I.V.
12. Lived with my cat for over six months since college, until my sister cat-napped him
13. Bought a blackberry, giving up living with a laptop or internet service
14. Went to Jerusalem, somehow remembered the opening chapter of the Quran, thus proving I was Muslim and able to enter the Dome of the Rock and the interiors of the two mosques
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