2009 Ruminations

With a little under two days to go, I thought this would be a good time to look over the year that was:

2009 was a karmically good year for me. I won an Aurora Award as the first in Canada to win with a comicbook-based magazine. My friend Janet Hetherington has won for reporting on comics, but this is bigger in breadth. No amount of bellitling her accomplishment; it's still huge. I'm just explaining the difference. I completed my third year of work at the Action Centre. I finally have a new and far less troublesome PC.

Karma works both ways: I couldn't see my award win in person because of a fall that morning... the good outweighed the bad though.

Hopefully 2010 will be even better!

Emotional resonance

Glee was reruns tonight (everything is right now, but there'll be no new episodes of this show until April. Oy!) What amazes me though is how some of the songs don't only sometimes fit the story, they also sometimes strike an emotional chord...

Tonight they re-aired the episode where Sue learns that Quinn is pregnant. The group performs the song Keep Holding On, a song about help always being there. It hits hard.