Christmas is closing up again, moving from 2009 to 2010. I cannot say that I have gone deep into the Christmas mood, no idea if work is to blame for that or my own self; I would bet on the second explanation... Too many “chapters” opened this year, these last months to be more accurate, and brought to me too many duties, all of them pressing and obligatory, one way or another. Spending twelve months serving my military service, I went through lots of experiences, each one of them flagged as “useful for the future”, in its own special way. So no doubt 2009 was the year of my military service. Wasted or not, it was a year that I would always remember for its very special memories, good or bad, all of them valuable guides for the future.

No matter how intensively I am avoiding to admit the obvious, Christmas has affected my mood, has made me happier, creating a weird feeling of an unknown expectation in me. If we try to see this from another aspect, I feel more lazy, less productive and ready to spend money and time on less or completely unimportant things.

The truth is that I have lots of work to do, at office and at my School's Alumni Association, Panathinaikos is leading for the very first time after six years the Greek soccer championship and I have my very own Christmas tree. So, I guess, we can pass to 2010 then.

ps: There is no reason I stopped commenting here the daily news. I just realized that if one would read such a news-blog, would find it completely same and recurring. Is that another symptom of living in Greece or not?