Re: Resolutions

Filed Under Life, New Year's Resolutions

From January:

1a: Check
3: Check

#3 has become more pleasant, because my wonderful husband got a pair of $10 mp3 players that were wooted a couple weeks ago. Two sessions on the elliptical reminded me that no, I really do not like earbuds at all. (They don’t fall out—though they always feel like they’re about to—but my ears hurt afterward and I worry that even 20 minutes has damaged my hearing.) But now I have actual headphones. “Skullcrusher Mountain” is my current favorite workout song, though “Mandelbrot Set,” “Chiron Beta Prime,” “IKEA,” and “Creepy Doll” are right up there, too. This means I can do more than 15 or 20 minutes on the elliptical without going insane, therefore I can skip the bike because I don’t need to stave off madness with a trade paperback.

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Resolved

Filed Under Life, Shred of Evidence, Writing, New Year's Resolutions

A few of the things I want to do in 2008:

1. Lose weight. (10 lbs. = required, 20 lbs. = strongly desired, 30 lbs. = very nice, 30+ lbs. = unlikely without use of a tapeworm.)
2. Explore tapeworm options.
3. Continue going to the gym regularly when it’s open. (Alum pricing is very nice; academic schedule, not so much.)
4. The Samhain writing goals I didn’t meet.
5. Quicker turn-around for Shred submissions. (I should be aiming for one month and not beating myself up over three, rather than aiming for three and congratulating myself for anything faster.)

There are a bunch of others, but if I talk about them prematurely something’s liable to go wrong.

I’m off to Hogmanay tonight. See you in 2008.

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Writing resolve

Filed Under Writing, New Year's Resolutions

I missed my last convenient calendar rollover a few weeks ago, but I shall not miss this one. So, the resolution that will hold me for the next couple months is:

In the month of November, address Workplan section I. Thereafter proceed to section II. The goal is (at least) three polished bits by the end of December.

(And yes, that makes sense to me. It doesn’t have to make sense to anyone else; you don’t have to do any work.)

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