Categories: random
Tags: resolutions
Date: 30 December 2010 21:09:26
Having read Kerensa's impressive reading quest and Tractor Girl's plan for her blog in the next year I have got musing about the new year and resolutions and suchlike. Dith has a pre-40 list which she is already starting to achieve. I vaguely remember writing at the end of last year or beginning of this year that I didn't want to end the year as a health visitor - mmm, I did well there then! I may have said something about reading the bible a bit more too, mmm, I did about as well at that as I did about changing jobs.
So, next year. Must do better. Here's a list of "I'd likes" rather than "I resolve to". I may be no more successful than last year, but if I present it as a wish list rather than a resolution list I'll feel less of a failure at the end of the year :) Anyway, in no particular order:
1) Read at least one piece of fiction a month. Book group will help with this, as will not having to write a thesis. But it will still be a challenge and will involve me reorganising my personal time (and spending less time on the internet).
2) Read the bible more (hmmm sounds familiar). Daily is ideal but really unrealistic for me, so I'll say weekly and I'll try to listen to more of the Pray as you go podcasts. I'll read Tractor Girl's blog too, as she's actually going to be doing the hard work.
3) Get a couple of articles published. The book for which I wrote a chapter ages and ages ago has just been published (hooray!), but I haven't yet got a copy. I am writing another chapter which needs to be with the editors in a presentable state by the end of March, so I'm going to have to sit down and work out exactly when I'm able to actually sit down and write. I also have a few journal articles brewing from the thesis (including one I wrote ages ago and never submitted, and which I now want to rewrite). It would be good to get a couple accepted.
4) Lose weight. Sigh. Actually, inspired by regular reader Sigrun I am planning on making 2011 more-or-less teetotal (with the exception of celebrating a passed PhD at some point soon, hopefully, and any wedding toast if people are kind enough to invite us to a wedding). That's not just for weight reasons, but hopefully losing those extra calories won't hurt in the waistline department. And once I've got through the mountain of chocolate we were given for Christmas (I may let HD help) I need to cut down on that too. Again.
5) Figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up.
6) Explore more of Scotland (especially more islands if we can). I'm going to enjoy that one.
7) I think that will do for now. I'll be happy if I achieve half of them.
I had thought about changing the blog name. But as Kerensa has pointed out recently, I am starting another course in January (note to self: send the form back!) so that's me a student till May 2012, albeit part-time. At my 6th university. Definitely the last. So no name change (besides, given half of my blog hits are for searches on "maturest sex", changing the name would lose me a ton of readers).