in which 2014 was a little uneventful

[pellucid]

This is my seventh post of 2014, the previous six all coming before May. Meep! One of my goals for 2015 is to write more. Just more, period, about whatever. Maybe (hopefully) fic, and fannish commentary and so forth, but probably also just a lot of whatever. Feel free to read and comment, or not, if you're still around anyway. But I'm getting rusty

Comments

[scarym1]

Hey. :)

I am glad to see you are doing well. I was wondering what you have been up to. :)

I will be really glad to see the end of 2014. I hope 2015 is a good year for all of us.

[pellucid]

Hey yourself! I've been around, reading pretty consistently, but I tend to forget that no one knows that unless I say something! Hope you've been well, too!

And yes, here's to 2015!

[daybreak777]

Glad you're still here! Hope you do some rock climbing too. Just because.

*hugs&

[pellucid]

I would love to do some rock climbing! It's sort of prohibitively expensive/difficult to fit into the schedule here, since the gyms are mostly out in the 'burbs and I don't have a car. And I'm so out of climbing shape at this point that just going for a lark some afternoon wouldn't get my money's worth because I'd be shot after two or three routes. But hopefully I'll be able to reintroduce it to my life at some point. I do miss it!

[dm_lunsford]

But I think I can practice action, and in practice get a little better.

A very realistic approach for the coming year. :)

Good to hear from you. Good luck on the "practice", because it will be good to hear from you more as well. :)

[pellucid]

We'll see how well I do... :) But yes, I do hope to be more present around here, definitely!

[cnidarian]

Glad to hear 2014 wasn't too eventful, sometimes uneventful is totally a good thing! But I hear you on the coasting, I feel like 2014 just kind of slipped away and there's not a lot to show for it.

Which Kindle did you get? I got a paperwhite and while I love the convenience of multiple books in one place, I find the touchscreen means you have to hold it around the edges which gives me tired thumbs pretty quickly. Dare say a cover would help with this.

[pellucid]

Ha!!! That's hilarious!

I got the paperwhite, too, but that hasn't really bothered me in the same way because I was reading some on a Kindle app on my tablet beforehand, so I'm actually liking the fact that the Kindle itself has some edge to hold onto, whereas the tablet doesn't. I've been looking at cases, too, though, mostly because I'm always tossing it in my bag and should probably protect it. My biggest complaint is with ebooks themselves rather than the Kindle in particular. I'm just the kind of reader who tends to have three or four fingers marking places in a book at any given time. I flip back, I flip ahead, and I generally read in a not-very-linear way. And ebooks basically force you to read linearly. Drives me a little crazy. Probably I'll always have certain kinds of books that I'll want to read in print, but I am finding the Kindle convenience really compelling, even when it is slightly maddening that I can't easily flip idly.

[cnidarian]

I don't know how useful the bookmark function is for that?

[pellucid]

I don't either. I'll probably play with it. The problem is that I'm usually not very intentional about my flipping back and forth. I tend to get bored at slow parts and flip forward to make sure it will get more interesting. Or I realize I haven't paid close enough attention to something so flip back to revisit. Whereas bookmarks seem most useful when you know at the time that you want to pay attention to something and to revisit it. But I'm still figuring it all out. We'll see!

[zixi]

It's nice to see you around here and I'm glad things are still going well. It sounds like 2014 was a good year - and maybe after the previous years some uneventful time wasn't too bad to have?

[pellucid]

Yes, it was nice, overall, to have a bit of an uneventful year. I wish the same for you in the not too distant future! I'm sorry everything with your postdoc has turned out to be so disappointing. I hope you can land somewhere better before too long and have things really fall into place for you!