December 30th, 2018 marked ten years for this blog. That first post was only two sentences, which established this as a travel blog for my semester abroad in Rome, Italy, in spring 2009. Somehow, I've continued to post here more or less monthly for ten years since then, except for a break in 2011 when I posted only twice. Let's also not forget that embarrassing, but fortunately brief, time when I thought I would try using this as a food blog... which was, as we say in my house, "not good eats." Anyway, time went on, I got back to the good stuff (architecture, obviously), and here we are. As it's now January 2019, it's time again for that most hallowed of traditions: reviewing how I did on last year's resolutions, and dedicating myself to some new ones for the year to come. 2018 was noticeably better for me than 2017, which was a year in which I felt frustrated and directionless. 2018 was not without its stress, and in fact much of it was very st...
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