Happy 2003!!
Jan. 1st, 2003 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321As the rain pelts softly on the tarpaulin-covered because completely leaky lean-to roof outside my so-called study window and the sky presses leadenly against the bricked gables in the dismal distance, I follow in the wake of others (most recently ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
badgermonkey in filling out this survey.
I would say that I can't think of anything else to post except I think it's more of a case I have a surfeit of things to post and don't know which to post first so am opting for easy option of filling out survey (am, anyway, sucker for filling in forms of any description).
The house is strange and empty. The family has fled the fold and I will be alone until Saturday. So far the relief has been great and odd, but I have neglected my well-being by not making lunch so I must do this survey quickly-quickly and then scuttle downstairs into t'kitchen.
This afternoon I may see a movie, if I can brave the Helm's-Deepian weather conditions.
1. What was your biggest accomplishment this year?
God, I don't know. I feel as if I haven't accomplished anything this year. I suppose I would have to say writing fiction in the English language but at the moment I'm not sure how much of an 'accomplishment' that is. Maybe that's something else, personal confidence-builder, milestone or something.
Actually, I've just remembered what would count unequivocally as an accomplishment: getting my one-year research leave!
2. What was your biggest disappointment?
My holidays in August. Not Wales -- Wales was great -- but the familial situation which ended up causing the shit I'm stewing in now.
Actually, that is wrong, too. Ach, it's the phrasing of these questions which always gets me. The holiday was not a 'disappointment', it was a fucking catastrophe.
Disappointment is a milder thing. What what what disappointed me? Oh, I know -- the reaction of a certain other family member to news about yet other family members. Yes, that was truly disappointing because my hopes had been raised and were then quashed.
3. Will you be making any New Year's resolutions?
Nope. I never do. I quite like the quiet of New Year's Day, though, the sense of being poised in a moment that's inbetween and hushed.
4. Where will you be at midnight? Do you wish you could be somewhere else?
Well, let's rephrase that: Where was I? In front of the TV with hubster, watching the video of Europa by Lars von Trier which, btw, was also a small disappointment because, while excellent in detail and texture, was not as good and world-important as we remembered from first seeing it in Kreuzberg about fifteen years ago. On the whole, I think, old Lars has a bit too much 'tude (in Breaking the Waves and Idiots as well -- haven't seen any others by him).
5. Aside from (possibly) staying up late, do you have any other New Year's traditions?
Well, Germans have the tradition of letting off tonnes and tonnes of fireworks between midnight and about 1 am, turning the streets of towns into miniature war zones. However, I have never participated in this in any capacity apart from bystander. In our family, we drink champagne but we couldn't be bothered with that last night. For myself, I would like to institute the tradition of going to bed at ten.
Five personally significant events of 2002:
Hm. Here are some random ones:
* Writing fic.
* Slash.
* Getting research grant.
* Seeking professional help for depression.
* Youngest child starting school.
Five things I want to do in 2003:
* Travel overseas with my research money and look at art.
* Get some sort of balance going with the online life and the real life.
* Write genfic.
* Write the conference paper I committed myself for.
* Spend nice time with the children.
Additional things I want to do that didn't fit into original survey:
* Be nicer to hubster.
* Get personal mental life sorted out.
* Keep in touch with overseas friends.
* Remember birthdays and presents.
* Go away on a sun-and-beach holiday, ideally to the Pacific, but I'll take the Caribbean, too.
* Start work again in September with gusto and get on with new Head of Department (whom I haven't even met yet).
* Take yoga classes.
* Possibly get a Siamese kitten for the children.
* Buy nice furniture.
* Survive the loft extension and move my so-called study into a real study.
* Nag less. Shout less.
* Buy a vibrator. (I've always wanted one of those and even more so afterthamiris's recently posted Ode to My Vibrator.
* Save the world from imminent self-destruction.
* Fuck Karl Urban. (Well, this is a list about "wanting", right? Not about "planning to do" or "likely to do".)
Specifically fanfic things I want to do in the near future:
* Finish Karl/Dom epic and send to beta.
* Finish birthday presents.
* Write orcs, starting with Jed and Steve.
* Write Bern with John RD and with Viggo, poss. in triangular plot form.
* Write Viggo/JRD. (Use the 'tossing' theme!!!)
* Slash Lij with an orc.
* Slash Dom with an orc.
* Write generally orcastic stuff.
* Avoid slashing the pretty with the pretty because it drives me insane. Slash the pretty only with the ugly and/or the over-50.
* Catch up on my fb!!!
Five things I don't want to do in 2003:
* Fuck Sean Astin. (I thought I'd start with one that was extremely likely to come true.)
* Fall back into old moulds.
* Neglect real life for virtual life.
* Waste my remaining research time.
* Feel trapped.
Five things that 2002 taught me:
Hm. Difficult.
* Never underestimate the libidinal power of the internet.
* Do not let things slide until they become unbearable; get to them earlier.
* World news get frightening and then less frightening in Nino-like cycles.
* Contact with online people online is different from contact with online people for real.
* Even t'reference library can get too much at times. Who'd have thought it?
I'm sure I was taught other things as well but they don't spring to mind right now.
On to lunch!
Oh, and thanks tonixxie_ for my new black-and-white Karl icon.
badgermonkey in filling out this survey.I would say that I can't think of anything else to post except I think it's more of a case I have a surfeit of things to post and don't know which to post first so am opting for easy option of filling out survey (am, anyway, sucker for filling in forms of any description).
The house is strange and empty. The family has fled the fold and I will be alone until Saturday. So far the relief has been great and odd, but I have neglected my well-being by not making lunch so I must do this survey quickly-quickly and then scuttle downstairs into t'kitchen.
This afternoon I may see a movie, if I can brave the Helm's-Deepian weather conditions.
1. What was your biggest accomplishment this year?
God, I don't know. I feel as if I haven't accomplished anything this year. I suppose I would have to say writing fiction in the English language but at the moment I'm not sure how much of an 'accomplishment' that is. Maybe that's something else, personal confidence-builder, milestone or something.
Actually, I've just remembered what would count unequivocally as an accomplishment: getting my one-year research leave!
2. What was your biggest disappointment?
My holidays in August. Not Wales -- Wales was great -- but the familial situation which ended up causing the shit I'm stewing in now.
Actually, that is wrong, too. Ach, it's the phrasing of these questions which always gets me. The holiday was not a 'disappointment', it was a fucking catastrophe.
Disappointment is a milder thing. What what what disappointed me? Oh, I know -- the reaction of a certain other family member to news about yet other family members. Yes, that was truly disappointing because my hopes had been raised and were then quashed.
3. Will you be making any New Year's resolutions?
Nope. I never do. I quite like the quiet of New Year's Day, though, the sense of being poised in a moment that's inbetween and hushed.
4. Where will you be at midnight? Do you wish you could be somewhere else?
Well, let's rephrase that: Where was I? In front of the TV with hubster, watching the video of Europa by Lars von Trier which, btw, was also a small disappointment because, while excellent in detail and texture, was not as good and world-important as we remembered from first seeing it in Kreuzberg about fifteen years ago. On the whole, I think, old Lars has a bit too much 'tude (in Breaking the Waves and Idiots as well -- haven't seen any others by him).
5. Aside from (possibly) staying up late, do you have any other New Year's traditions?
Well, Germans have the tradition of letting off tonnes and tonnes of fireworks between midnight and about 1 am, turning the streets of towns into miniature war zones. However, I have never participated in this in any capacity apart from bystander. In our family, we drink champagne but we couldn't be bothered with that last night. For myself, I would like to institute the tradition of going to bed at ten.
Five personally significant events of 2002:
Hm. Here are some random ones:
* Writing fic.
* Slash.
* Getting research grant.
* Seeking professional help for depression.
* Youngest child starting school.
Five things I want to do in 2003:
* Travel overseas with my research money and look at art.
* Get some sort of balance going with the online life and the real life.
* Write genfic.
* Write the conference paper I committed myself for.
* Spend nice time with the children.
Additional things I want to do that didn't fit into original survey:
* Be nicer to hubster.
* Get personal mental life sorted out.
* Keep in touch with overseas friends.
* Remember birthdays and presents.
* Go away on a sun-and-beach holiday, ideally to the Pacific, but I'll take the Caribbean, too.
* Start work again in September with gusto and get on with new Head of Department (whom I haven't even met yet).
* Take yoga classes.
* Possibly get a Siamese kitten for the children.
* Buy nice furniture.
* Survive the loft extension and move my so-called study into a real study.
* Nag less. Shout less.
* Buy a vibrator. (I've always wanted one of those and even more so after
thamiris's recently posted Ode to My Vibrator.* Save the world from imminent self-destruction.
* Fuck Karl Urban. (Well, this is a list about "wanting", right? Not about "planning to do" or "likely to do".)
Specifically fanfic things I want to do in the near future:
* Finish Karl/Dom epic and send to beta.
* Finish birthday presents.
* Write orcs, starting with Jed and Steve.
* Write Bern with John RD and with Viggo, poss. in triangular plot form.
* Write Viggo/JRD. (Use the 'tossing' theme!!!)
* Slash Lij with an orc.
* Slash Dom with an orc.
* Write generally orcastic stuff.
* Avoid slashing the pretty with the pretty because it drives me insane. Slash the pretty only with the ugly and/or the over-50.
* Catch up on my fb!!!
Five things I don't want to do in 2003:
* Fuck Sean Astin. (I thought I'd start with one that was extremely likely to come true.)
* Fall back into old moulds.
* Neglect real life for virtual life.
* Waste my remaining research time.
* Feel trapped.
Five things that 2002 taught me:
Hm. Difficult.
* Never underestimate the libidinal power of the internet.
* Do not let things slide until they become unbearable; get to them earlier.
* World news get frightening and then less frightening in Nino-like cycles.
* Contact with online people online is different from contact with online people for real.
* Even t'reference library can get too much at times. Who'd have thought it?
I'm sure I was taught other things as well but they don't spring to mind right now.
On to lunch!
Oh, and thanks to
nixxie_ for my new black-and-white Karl icon.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
Love some of your goals
Date: 2003-01-02 12:07 am (UTC)I'm also happy to see that you'll be providing us with orc-RPS and mixing up the pret ty with the not-so-pretty. You can always be trusted to rescue us from conventionality and boredom!
And while I'm here, let me just drag the Astin-boy off. Since he won't be getting any from you, I wouldn't want hiim to have to do without. Sometimes I'm so charitable, I feel like I should be a Christian or something. *g*
Truly hope that 2003 is much, much better for you.
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