Things I have accomplished this decade (the 2010s)

• graduated from college with a BA
• got my driver's license
• took the GRE and did okay despite being very underprepared 
• got accepted to UCLA
• lived in LA, went to the MOMA and The Last Bookstore
• took ballroom dancing lessons and learned to dance, something I've always wanted to do
• went clubbing for the first time
• went to Italy!
• got my master's degree (MLIS)
• started going to therapy, on and off
• dealt with depression and slowly got better
• made and slowly lost good friends
• got and left a job that sucked
• got my first real librarian job
• bought a new car for the first time ever
• got a non-school apartment
• actually went on some dates?!?!?!?!?!?!
• had voice lessons for a while, something I've always wanted to do
• realized some stuff about myself
• got a job at the college I graduated from
• joined two different choirs
• was a bridesmaid in my siblings' weddings and saw them get married
• became an aunt to some cute pets
• traveled to states and countries I'd never been to
• performed at Disneyland's Candlight Concert as part of the choir

Ride ten thousand days and nights til age snow white hairs on thee...

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"Nunc Dimittis" by James Laughlin

Little time now
and so much hasn't
been put down as I
should have done it.
But does it matter?
It's all been written
so well by my betters,
and what they wrote
has been my joy.