Oh look. Another year.
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dragojustineFirstly, have some humor awesomeness: Dave Barry's year-end roundup. Do not attempt to consume beverages while reading.
Secondly, have some fannish humor awesomeness: The new year's resolutions of Dr. Rodney McKay, and the new year's resolution of Colonel John Sheppard. Similarly, do not consume beverages. Hee!
Everybody is doing year-end fic roundups. I can't, because I wrote so much anonymous Christmas fic and I just have to talk about it. So, tomorrow.
Last year's resolution round-up:
1. Stop tailgating: Success! Haven't crawled up anybody's tailpipe since June.
2. Keep moving my video file collection toward legality: Too broke to make much progres, but I did get a season of Supernatural and SGA for Christmas, and I have a Borders card that might be enough to get me a season of SG1. I watch TV a whole lot faster than I can afford to pay for it, though. But I've been watching Chuck legally, on hulu!
3. Regular journal writing: Check.
4. Working out: Great success for six months, dismal failure for six months.
5. Get out of the house at least once every two weeks (yes, I have to make a resolution for this. And track it, or I will not leave my house for three months striaght): Success on average, though I haven't done anything social here in Dallas since November.
6. Writing- at least 50k words: Success. More tomorrow.
7. Find some kind of volunteer work: Yes. Eight months with the local adult literacy program. The program was not all I hoped for, so I'm finding something else, but it sent well.
And next year:
1. Stop speeding! Absolutely no more than 10 miles over on surface streets, 15 on freeways. 5 on residential streets. And observe school zones and construction zones. This will take a certain amount of self-policing, but I think (like the tailgating thing), I can get it kicked by June. And I cannot afford these tickets.
2. Keep moving my video file collection toward legality. Won't be able to afford much, but I'm keeping it in mind.
3. Regular journal writing (because I love doing it but somehow have to keep reminding myself or I stop).
4. Working out. Hah. Yeah, right. But. On the list it goes.
5. Get out of the house at least once every two weeks. This is going to take some concerted effort, but if we can pull the book club back together once a month, that will help. Then maybe board games and dancing each once a month, plus the occasional other thing, and I'm there. I just have to make myself do it. It's good for me. (Oh, accursed introversion)
6. Writing- at least 100k. (Six months ago this would have seemed ludicriously optimistic to me, but now it seems doable. I love writing so much.)
7. Find some kind of volunteer work that is either more satisfying than the local literacy thing, or looks better on a resume. Both if possible.
8. Law school apps in fall.
You know, when I put it all in a list like that, it doesn't look like I've totally derailed my life and potential career, stranded myself in a city I hate, and wasted three years, doesn't it? That's because I didn't put "Fix the horrendous mess I've made of my life" on the list. It's all about the concrete, right?
2008 in review!
Thing that was best, even if hard: Breaking up with Dustin
Thing that was most surprisingly wonderful: Meeting![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
als_wonderland at Wincon, and secondly the wonderful time I had with miriad at Comic-con
Thing that was happiest: My Thanksgiving road trip (for two reasons, and you know who you are).
Thing that was most awesome: Obama
Thing I'm most satisfied about: Kicking the writing into gear
Thing that didn't turn out like I wanted: The move to Dallas
Thing I wish I'd done differently: I wish I'd said "scre the money" and taken a proper vacation anyway.
Thing I'm saddest about: Seeing so little of my sister, and secondly moving away from LA just when I was really getting to be friends withmiriad.
2009 coming up!
Thing I'm saddest about: Being broke enough that I'm probably going to need to move back in with my parents
Thing I'm most excited about: Havingbdblack come visit me, maybe.
Thing I really hope I can do but don't think I'll manage: Keep traveling (Comic-Con, some other con, and a proper vacation), money be damned.
Thing I'm most apprehensive about, but know I need to do: Law school apps.
My ideal yeah-right outcome: Move back to Seattle and get a job that pays well enough to not live with my parents, then get into Columbia.
The probable outcome: Stay scraping by in Dallas and then get into the University of Washington.
Worst-case outcome: Move back in with my parents, fail to get a decent job, and not get accepted anywhere.
(The only good thing about those three outcomes is that I think the last is just as unlikely as the first. So, that's good at least)
Fandom update: I have gotten hooked on Leverage.
Timothy Hutton! Christian Kane! Gina Bellman! The heists! The elaborate plots! The snark! The insanity! The badassery! (oh my GOD, how awesome was the Establishing of Kane's Badassery in the pilot?) I adore Gina Bellman, though I'm not yet as in love with Sophie as a character as I was with Jane. I adore Eliot, because he is very pretty indeed, but also because Kane's doing a better job than I anticipated and the writers are letting him be smart about what he does, as well as just being the party tank. And I really adore Alec, and his snark, and his dynamic both with Eliot and with Parker. And I would not at all turn down either of those pairings.
This is almost (but not quite) as good as Eyes. It at least scratches the same itch. But it has the same problem, which is that I cannot write fic for such a plot-focused fandom. *sigh* But so far I am muchly enjoying!
Now if I can just fend off the inevitable falling for Merlin...
Secondly, have some fannish humor awesomeness: The new year's resolutions of Dr. Rodney McKay, and the new year's resolution of Colonel John Sheppard. Similarly, do not consume beverages. Hee!
Everybody is doing year-end fic roundups. I can't, because I wrote so much anonymous Christmas fic and I just have to talk about it. So, tomorrow.
Last year's resolution round-up:
1. Stop tailgating: Success! Haven't crawled up anybody's tailpipe since June.
2. Keep moving my video file collection toward legality: Too broke to make much progres, but I did get a season of Supernatural and SGA for Christmas, and I have a Borders card that might be enough to get me a season of SG1. I watch TV a whole lot faster than I can afford to pay for it, though. But I've been watching Chuck legally, on hulu!
3. Regular journal writing: Check.
4. Working out: Great success for six months, dismal failure for six months.
5. Get out of the house at least once every two weeks (yes, I have to make a resolution for this. And track it, or I will not leave my house for three months striaght): Success on average, though I haven't done anything social here in Dallas since November.
6. Writing- at least 50k words: Success. More tomorrow.
7. Find some kind of volunteer work: Yes. Eight months with the local adult literacy program. The program was not all I hoped for, so I'm finding something else, but it sent well.
And next year:
1. Stop speeding! Absolutely no more than 10 miles over on surface streets, 15 on freeways. 5 on residential streets. And observe school zones and construction zones. This will take a certain amount of self-policing, but I think (like the tailgating thing), I can get it kicked by June. And I cannot afford these tickets.
2. Keep moving my video file collection toward legality. Won't be able to afford much, but I'm keeping it in mind.
3. Regular journal writing (because I love doing it but somehow have to keep reminding myself or I stop).
4. Working out. Hah. Yeah, right. But. On the list it goes.
5. Get out of the house at least once every two weeks. This is going to take some concerted effort, but if we can pull the book club back together once a month, that will help. Then maybe board games and dancing each once a month, plus the occasional other thing, and I'm there. I just have to make myself do it. It's good for me. (Oh, accursed introversion)
6. Writing- at least 100k. (Six months ago this would have seemed ludicriously optimistic to me, but now it seems doable. I love writing so much.)
7. Find some kind of volunteer work that is either more satisfying than the local literacy thing, or looks better on a resume. Both if possible.
8. Law school apps in fall.
You know, when I put it all in a list like that, it doesn't look like I've totally derailed my life and potential career, stranded myself in a city I hate, and wasted three years, doesn't it? That's because I didn't put "Fix the horrendous mess I've made of my life" on the list. It's all about the concrete, right?
2008 in review!
Thing that was best, even if hard: Breaking up with Dustin
Thing that was most surprisingly wonderful: Meeting
als_wonderland at Wincon, and secondly the wonderful time I had with miriad at Comic-conThing that was happiest: My Thanksgiving road trip (for two reasons, and you know who you are).
Thing that was most awesome: Obama
Thing I'm most satisfied about: Kicking the writing into gear
Thing that didn't turn out like I wanted: The move to Dallas
Thing I wish I'd done differently: I wish I'd said "scre the money" and taken a proper vacation anyway.
Thing I'm saddest about: Seeing so little of my sister, and secondly moving away from LA just when I was really getting to be friends with
miriad. 2009 coming up!
Thing I'm saddest about: Being broke enough that I'm probably going to need to move back in with my parents
Thing I'm most excited about: Having
bdblack come visit me, maybe. Thing I really hope I can do but don't think I'll manage: Keep traveling (Comic-Con, some other con, and a proper vacation), money be damned.
Thing I'm most apprehensive about, but know I need to do: Law school apps.
My ideal yeah-right outcome: Move back to Seattle and get a job that pays well enough to not live with my parents, then get into Columbia.
The probable outcome: Stay scraping by in Dallas and then get into the University of Washington.
Worst-case outcome: Move back in with my parents, fail to get a decent job, and not get accepted anywhere.
(The only good thing about those three outcomes is that I think the last is just as unlikely as the first. So, that's good at least)
Fandom update: I have gotten hooked on Leverage.
Timothy Hutton! Christian Kane! Gina Bellman! The heists! The elaborate plots! The snark! The insanity! The badassery! (oh my GOD, how awesome was the Establishing of Kane's Badassery in the pilot?) I adore Gina Bellman, though I'm not yet as in love with Sophie as a character as I was with Jane. I adore Eliot, because he is very pretty indeed, but also because Kane's doing a better job than I anticipated and the writers are letting him be smart about what he does, as well as just being the party tank. And I really adore Alec, and his snark, and his dynamic both with Eliot and with Parker. And I would not at all turn down either of those pairings.
This is almost (but not quite) as good as Eyes. It at least scratches the same itch. But it has the same problem, which is that I cannot write fic for such a plot-focused fandom. *sigh* But so far I am muchly enjoying!
Now if I can just fend off the inevitable falling for Merlin...
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Date: 2009-01-01 03:49 am (UTC)But yaay for mostly-successful new year's resolutions, and may you have both luck and perseverence on the next set.
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Date: 2009-01-01 08:17 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2009-01-01 09:24 pm (UTC)