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When September 2026 rolls around and you receive your answers to your 10Q questions, how do you think you'll feel? What do you think/hope might be different about your life and where you're at as a result of thinking about and answering these questions?
Disappointed in myself accomplishing nothing yet again
Scared / Disappointed in how much worse the world has gotten
I really hope I have a career not just a job, but i may just need a job to survive at this point
It's good to step back and consider instead of just treading to keep afloat, but not sure once a year is enough
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Is there something (a person, a cause, an idea) that you want to investigate more fully in the coming year?
Possibly look into AI/ML, Cloud(s), refresh windows systems administration, GRC, PMP i.e. the things which will help me get a job easier in the future.
Otherwise if I had the energy, learning to grow food for the rabbit and ourselves
looking into being a lower waste household
maybe trying those glp-1's my mom wants me to try
oh and refresh ham
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How would you like to improve yourself and your life next year? Is there a piece of advice or counsel you received in the past year that could guide you?
Have a job
Have Canadian citizenship (dual)
Not be in an unhappy marriage, either repairing it or leaving it.
I don't think there is any advice or council I have gotten which I can remember specific to the past year which applies
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6
Describe one thing you'd like to achieve by this time next year. Why is this important to you?
I would like to have a new job. Money is needed in a capitalist society to survive.
I would like my marriage to be in better shape, or find a way for it to be over. Neither of us are happy currently.
I would like to have gotten my dual citizenship. This would allow me to return to the US to get a job, or just to live with my parents, if needed (which would end my marriage), but with the option to return if I wanted or needed to. I would also then be able to look into sponsoring my parents to move here if things continue on the way they have in the US. although canada is attached physically and deeply intertwined financially to the US so it’s a small improvement.
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Have you had any particularly spiritual experiences this past year? How has this experience affected you? "Spiritual" can be broadly defined to include secular spiritual experiences: artistic, cultural, and so forth.
No, I don’t think anything touched me deeply this year.
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4
Describe an event in the world that has impacted you this year. How? Why?
Where do I start?
The descent into authoritarian facism in the US is scary
Ticking off project 2025 https://www.project2025.observer/en also terrifying
The loss and rollback of so much progress
The state of the job market
The state of what they are doing to healthcare
How many people are dead, dying or will die as a result
How many years it will take to recover from this, how perhaps some things like climate change we may get past the point we can recover
Finding out how many people just do not care
Finding out how very ignorant so many people are
But there is no choice but to keep trying to live, and help who you can
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Think about a major milestone that happened with your family this past year. How has this affected you?
My sister died, she picked a good time. It was not an ideal time to be disabled in the US.
I can’t think of anything more significant than that
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2
Is there something that you wish you had done differently this past year? Alternatively, is there something you're especially proud of from this past year?
No, other than the traditional wish i kept my performance reviews, wish i had kept seeking jobs, wish i had better tracked my successes, the things one ought to do while employed but so hard to do when you feel so busy.
I don’t think i did anything worthy of being proud of.
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1
Describe a significant experience that has happened in the past year. How did it affect you? Are you grateful? Relieved? Resentful? Inspired?
Laid off for the first time ever. Stressed. Afraid. Because my husband has been out of work for over a year we’ve gone through our emergency fund, and because he’s mentally unstable, unwilling to find alternate work, newly diagnosed ADHD and autistic things are not great.
January started off with husband being suicidal, my birthday, on which my sister died, the same day as his grandmothers 100th birthday
Having to leave and miss the final shmoocon because husband couldn't hold his shit together for 3 days
February - Gallifrey One, to find out they are winding down. All good things come to an end.
March - Gave a talk at BSides Reykjavik (Iceland) with my mom and husband, and got to see Kat - very much enjoyed iceland
Went to D&D in a castle, a great time, and visited Peter
April - Visited Japan for star wars celebration and end of cherry blossom season, we missed most of the cherry blossoms and i would have done much more tea stuff if not having my husband with me
BSides SF & RSA
June
Gartner conference
August - Hacker Summer Camp
Ran the last stand alone TDI event for at least a year, skytalks, and TDI @ DEF CON - busy but good
Also had a gathering at the halloween suite at the westgate hotel
Finished with the traditional cabana day
Sadly one of our friends got RIF’d at the event
Came home and then went on a disney cruise with mom and brandon and heath and husband which was less than magical
September
Laid off
Prepped for an ran BSides Edmonton which went well
But now i’m not being as effective or useful as I need to be.
