Blog of Bermanism

This is the obligatory first blog post of the New Year in which I wish everyone a healthy and happy and recession-reducing new year. We spent the New Year in Lake Tahoe at my cousin’s best friend’s cabin. It was a great time, and certainly much more successful than the last time we tried to have New Years at that cabin. Rachel (who can’t ski because of bad knees) was good enough to volunteer to stay home at the cabin with Sasha while the rest of us went off and skied our hearts out in the way-better-than-normal early season conditions at Squaw and Northstar. I think I really needed to bomb down some mountains to re-center myself after this last year, so I’m very grateful that Rachel is supportive enough to have a not-so-exciting weekend so that I can. If she wasn’t willing, I’d probably never ski again. Anyway, I had a wonderful time skiing with my cousin and her husband (which, I guess, makes him my cousin too). The lift lines were short, the mountains were pretty much empty and the snow was great. We managed around 16-17 runs each day, so my legs are pretty blitzed, but it was a great first few ski days of the season and I really feel like I got my ski legs back under me.

So, now that I have my skiing addiction tamed for the time being, it is time to turn our attention to 2009. I do, in fact, have some New Year’s Resolutions. I’m writing them in my blog for all to see:

1. I want to be better at keeping in touch with people: I really let this fall off this year. I probably have about 10 people that I should keep in regular touch with. This isn’t a tall order and I just need to make the time for it. I also tend to let emails, texts, and voice mails go unanswered for a long period of time, and let’s not even talk about Facebook. I’ve gone two months without replying to people on there. So, I resolve to be better about communicating. I do actually have the time to do it, I just need to make it happen.
2. I want to move on to the next phase of my career in 2009. This is complicated beyond explanation, mainly because I’m not sure if I want to go into industry or academics. I suppose I’m going to wait and see what comes from my postdoc and then decide based on what I’m qualified for. So, this is my major resolution, and it is a big one, but it is time to move on in my career.

That’s it! I only have two resolutions. The rest of my life has been pretty awesome and I really wouldn’t change very much of it. I’ve been pretty lucky that way and I hope it continues. So, Happy New Year to all! I hope it finds all of you in comfort and good health.

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