2021 review
Some things I've enjoyed over the past year:
Well There's Your Problem - an irreverent, frequently profanity-laced 'podcast with slides' about engineering disasters.
Cinema Therapy - videos combining movies and psychology.
Lost in the Pond - videos about life in the U.S. from a British native.
Some books on top of two I mentioned back in January 2021...
The Sum of Us: What racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together by Heather McGhee
Think Again: The power of knowing what you don't know by Adam Grant
Fiction: The Library of the Unwritten and The Archive of the Forgotten by A.J. Hackwith (the third book is The God of Lost Words, which I'm just about to start)--I love the concept of this trilogy, and some of the observations/commentary about writing and stories are just *so good*.
My yearly revisit of last year's intentions...
1. Continue doing yoga and/or other intentional activity daily. More or less, yes. I've had several misses on the daily yoga for various reasons over the course of the year, but I'm not too bothered about it.
2. Read at least six of the books that I own but haven't read yet. Yes! I read eight (of the 48 I finished), which is pretty good considering I didn't start on those eight until July.
3. Revisit/revise at least one of my original works (story/poem) from college and post it online, like on AO3 and/or Wattpad. Uh... nope.
4. Finish something fannish. I'm finished with the bulk of the FrodoHealers project, and that's pretty much the only fannish thing I did last year--2021 didn't end up being a fic-writing year for me.
5. Post here at least once per calendar week. Well, I managed 42 entries (plus two for the 2020 review and 2021 intentions), so I missed this both literally and as an average. Ah, well, better luck next time. I was a bit busy there for a bit, what with moving and all. ;-)
6.... Reply to comments more frequently! Hahahahaha, yeah, definitely missed this one. Perhaps someday I'll find a good routine for responding.
7. Go to at least two local events where I'll have to interact with people (something like the farmers' market doesn't count). LOL. Well, maybe I covered this with my church visits since I moved... not quite what I envisioned, but I suppose it counts. ;-)
8. Work on figuring out what my next steps are professionally. I'd be more specific but I really don't know what this might look like or even what the timeline will be. ... I feel kind of like I'm on the verge of major developments in this area, so we'll see what happens! NAILED IT! lol. But holy shit, if you'd told me last January that within the year I'd have moved back to the DC area and be working at such a big-name school, I would've had a very hard time believing it. "Major developments" indeed! This success makes the misses on some of the other stuff seem downright insignificant (which it is, really).
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Well There's Your Problem - an irreverent, frequently profanity-laced 'podcast with slides' about engineering disasters.
Cinema Therapy - videos combining movies and psychology.
Lost in the Pond - videos about life in the U.S. from a British native.
Some books on top of two I mentioned back in January 2021...
The Sum of Us: What racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together by Heather McGhee
Think Again: The power of knowing what you don't know by Adam Grant
Fiction: The Library of the Unwritten and The Archive of the Forgotten by A.J. Hackwith (the third book is The God of Lost Words, which I'm just about to start)--I love the concept of this trilogy, and some of the observations/commentary about writing and stories are just *so good*.
My yearly revisit of last year's intentions...
1. Continue doing yoga and/or other intentional activity daily. More or less, yes. I've had several misses on the daily yoga for various reasons over the course of the year, but I'm not too bothered about it.
2. Read at least six of the books that I own but haven't read yet. Yes! I read eight (of the 48 I finished), which is pretty good considering I didn't start on those eight until July.
3. Revisit/revise at least one of my original works (story/poem) from college and post it online, like on AO3 and/or Wattpad. Uh... nope.
4. Finish something fannish. I'm finished with the bulk of the FrodoHealers project, and that's pretty much the only fannish thing I did last year--2021 didn't end up being a fic-writing year for me.
5. Post here at least once per calendar week. Well, I managed 42 entries (plus two for the 2020 review and 2021 intentions), so I missed this both literally and as an average. Ah, well, better luck next time. I was a bit busy there for a bit, what with moving and all. ;-)
6.... Reply to comments more frequently! Hahahahaha, yeah, definitely missed this one. Perhaps someday I'll find a good routine for responding.
7. Go to at least two local events where I'll have to interact with people (something like the farmers' market doesn't count). LOL. Well, maybe I covered this with my church visits since I moved... not quite what I envisioned, but I suppose it counts. ;-)
8. Work on figuring out what my next steps are professionally. I'd be more specific but I really don't know what this might look like or even what the timeline will be. ... I feel kind of like I'm on the verge of major developments in this area, so we'll see what happens! NAILED IT! lol. But holy shit, if you'd told me last January that within the year I'd have moved back to the DC area and be working at such a big-name school, I would've had a very hard time believing it. "Major developments" indeed! This success makes the misses on some of the other stuff seem downright insignificant (which it is, really).
This entry was originally posted at https://ancalime8301.dreamwidth.org/1821198.html. Comment wherever you prefer.