The Egotism Post

Long-time readers of this journal will be familiar with today's exercise, but for those who are new, an introduction in three points:

1) Today is my birthday.

2) So long as I continue to be involved in academia, my birthday will fall during a rather hectic and stressful period of the year.

3) I am perhaps a little too skilled for my own good at pointing the flaws in my accomplishments, how I've done this thing but not that other one, etc.

So, for several years now, to counteract my tendency to be in a bad mood on my birthday (for reasons that have nothing to do with my age) and my habit of denigrating my own achievements, I've made a practice of posting, on this day, a listing of all the cool stuff I've done in the previous year. And I'm utterly forbidden to qualify my statements or include anything that isn't positive (and you have no idea how much self-editing it takes to obey that rule).

So. I'm twenty-six today. What do I have to show for it?

( This. )

That is, at the moment, all I can think of, on account of the aforementioned tiredness. It makes a good list, though. I wish I had my scores from the test I took today, so I would know whether I can legitimately add "tricked IU into believing I speak Spanish" to the list. <g> But I've plenty to be proud of, regardless.

Let's see what I can do with my twenty-sixth year. ^_^