Livre d'Or

What can I tell you about this year? I've been a rabbinic student for all of it, the course is going really well, but it's also eating my life.

Significant events

• I travelled abroad for the first time since the pandemic began, a school trip to Paris.
  
  
• I bought a flat in Hendon, and got it set up, and moved into it. And then had to deal with emergency bathroom replacement, and with one thing and another I still haven't had a housewarming.
  
  
• My partner became Jewish and celebrated his bar mitzvah.
  
  
• I saw The Merry Widow at Glyndebourne with my family of origin, and Hamilton on tour in Birmingham with cjwatson. I also saw Fiddler on the Roof in Regent's Park, but sadly without ghoti_mhic_uait as she was isolating with Covid when we'd booked to go.
  
  
• I celebrated my third wedding anniversary (and 12 years of marriage / 16 years together) with jack with a very fine meal at Itadaki-Zen. I celebrated my 10^th anniversary of dating cjwatson and ghoti_mhic_uait with a very exciting trip to Legoland.

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Overall I'd say that the year has been academically and career-trajectory successful. My socializing has been limited but my connections with family and friends have been wonderful when I did manage it. I haven't succeeded in building the online presence I want, though, either personally (eg posting properly here and on Mastodon), or professionally (eg setting up my website.) And I haven't made a start at all on learning to drive.

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