The quarter-life crisis continues.

It all started last summer, the summer before optometry school... I was dealing with a lot of anxiety about starting a new chapter in my life in a different city (and country) away from everything I knew.

Months later, I'm doing surprisingly well in school and my career path is pretty much settled in that I know that whatever happens, I'll be an optometrist. But there are still so many options left to be decided, mainly where will I practice? A lot can happen in 3 yrs so I don't want to speculate about this too much. Ideally, I want to end up back in alberta. The bulk of my family is in edmonton but I feel like if I was in calgary, that would be close enough so that I could come up any weekend I wanted to. And optometrists are doing really well in alberta so it makes sense professionally as well. To complicate things, boston is growin on me and I suppose I'd contemplate staying for a few years if the opportunity presented itself...

Now, I hope you brought your own beer to my pity party. I feel like I'm losing more and more muscle mass and gaining more and more fat in the belly region everyday. It's a downward spiral cause then you just get depressed and try to eat your sorrows away.

I need to change my life. I didn't make new year's resolutions this year, but here they are:
(1) get back into shape. I am gonna be one of those annoying ppl who eats super healthy and makes you feel horrible about yourself. All free time will be spent at the gym, or going for runs by the charles river.
(2) speak another language fluently (or a few semi-fluently). My cantonese took a backseat to english many years ago and I'm on a quest to get it back. I learned some french in junior high and high sch but nowhere near enough to say I'm fluent... but now that I'm in the states, I wanna learn to speak some spanish. I'm gonna look into a summer course.
(3) stop swearing. Unless, I'm really truly mad, I don't want to swear anymore becuase it de-emphasizes my anger when I am actually mad. And I also feel like it makes me sound uneducated.

So that's it. I feel determined, I really want to work on bettering myself.