OK, I'm inspired by Vickie and the Pitchfork Media top of 2003 lists to put together my own mini-review of the year.

Highlights of 2003

• Building a computer out of parts, and installing Linux on it.
• Book-borrowing priveleges as a Borders employee.
• Planning and executing the grand Central American trip with Aaron.
• Friday and Saturday nights out with fellow CCS folks.
• Harvest Mission Christian Church in Ann Arbor.
• Having a social life again in Michigan, albeit the social life of a grad student.
• Finding out that I could be satisfied as a teacher, if I made a career out of it.
• Snow.

Lowlights of 2003

• Losing my book-borrowing priviledge at Borders for a month.
• Substitute teaching at the junior high.
• Getting robbed in Nicaragua.
• Living at home, and the lack of a social life.
• Re-adjusting to school responsibilities.
• Snow.

Promises to myself for 2004

• I will work to be a better friend.

• I will concentrate on the little acts of discipline, and grow into a more responsible person.
• I will be more excited about learning Chinese.
• I will learn to sacrifice, and that getting enough sleep is a way of praising God.

Looking forward (with just the right amount of fear and excitement) to a fruitful 2004.