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this time next year
Happy '11 and all that. I don't even have any alcohol - I drank all of the little we had left when Australia lost the Ashes.
I don't resolve, as a rule, but that's mostly because I hate conventions - sometimes you've got to ask yourself what you would resolve if you were the resolving sort, etc. I mean, there's only two ways to look back on a list of resolutions; either 'I FAILED/SUCCEEDED' or 'wow, I was so full of shit this time last year', both of which tend to be constantly true anyway. :)
What would I resolve if I were the resolving sort? Idk, partly because it would involve either writing more or writing less - I'm not sure which would be overall better for me, but as is, I am writing very little and taking too much time over it. Not good.
Little-known fact; the English New Year's Day is traditionally March 25th. At one point a few years back I was writing something that inexplicably held to this fact in spite of not even being set in the same universe as England; I never bothered justifying this, just went with it. January 1st is pure convention, and one that always confused me as a kid because logically shouldn't 2011 anno domini begin on Christmas Day? The medieval English answer to that was to start the year on Lady Day, therefore March 25th is love. (This is also why our fiscal year begins on April 6th; it's Lady Day corrected for the eleven missing days in 1752).
I do still keep my own count in mind most years, and while I need to dig in the wayback machine to figure out how overlaps are meant to work I just mentally rotate it on my birthday every year. So next birthday ticks from a Tower year to a Star year; I haven't destroyed the thing yet, but wow, I have been learning a lot about The Tower, mostly that I am not nearly as good at it as I hoped, because it is more difficult than I always thought. The Star, on the other hand, I am not going to pretend to know all that well. And holy hellballs will 2012 be fun. ♥
tonight, mentally; slept earlier, should probably grab another nap now; existentially mad about two completely unrelated things; I am being a happy tiny-fandom elephant, which I thought was borderline impossible; feeling quiet inside; not writing. bah.
I don't resolve, as a rule, but that's mostly because I hate conventions - sometimes you've got to ask yourself what you would resolve if you were the resolving sort, etc. I mean, there's only two ways to look back on a list of resolutions; either 'I FAILED/SUCCEEDED' or 'wow, I was so full of shit this time last year', both of which tend to be constantly true anyway. :)
What would I resolve if I were the resolving sort? Idk, partly because it would involve either writing more or writing less - I'm not sure which would be overall better for me, but as is, I am writing very little and taking too much time over it. Not good.
Little-known fact; the English New Year's Day is traditionally March 25th. At one point a few years back I was writing something that inexplicably held to this fact in spite of not even being set in the same universe as England; I never bothered justifying this, just went with it. January 1st is pure convention, and one that always confused me as a kid because logically shouldn't 2011 anno domini begin on Christmas Day? The medieval English answer to that was to start the year on Lady Day, therefore March 25th is love. (This is also why our fiscal year begins on April 6th; it's Lady Day corrected for the eleven missing days in 1752).
I do still keep my own count in mind most years, and while I need to dig in the wayback machine to figure out how overlaps are meant to work I just mentally rotate it on my birthday every year. So next birthday ticks from a Tower year to a Star year; I haven't destroyed the thing yet, but wow, I have been learning a lot about The Tower, mostly that I am not nearly as good at it as I hoped, because it is more difficult than I always thought. The Star, on the other hand, I am not going to pretend to know all that well. And holy hellballs will 2012 be fun. ♥
tonight, mentally; slept earlier, should probably grab another nap now; existentially mad about two completely unrelated things; I am being a happy tiny-fandom elephant, which I thought was borderline impossible; feeling quiet inside; not writing. bah.