The Privilege Meme

This is from Firecat but originated at a blog having to do with Quakers and social class. The idea is that the more of these things you can say yes to, the more privileged you are. I thought it more interesting to comment on the actual items than to just do the list thing. The bolded ones are the things I can say yes to. Behind a cut due to length.

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Year in Review

I posted a year in review entry over on Areas of Unrest. It's probably too tedious for anyone else to read, but it is a good way to remind myself that I've done a fair amount in 2007. If nothing else, I went to 6 foreign countries (Chile, Russia, Austria, Slovak Republic, Canada, and Spain), 2.5 of which I hadn't been to before. (The .5 is for Spain since I had previously been to Tenerife, but not the mainland.)