The Year in Review
Dec. 31st, 2008 12:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjSince there hasn't been enough new snow to talk boringly about the cross-country conditions, and since the only really exciting thing I've done in the last couple days was walk to downtown Waterville to do massive photocopying of legal papers relating to the my house (to replace the ones in the stolen safe), it's time for The Year In Review! That semi-amusing meme where you glom together the first sentence from the first post of each month and see how it reads.
I decided not to try to hunt down any New Years Eve parties to attend and this was a Good Decision because I ended up nodding off to sleep around 8pm watching DVDs. I had a moment of very mild freaking out when one of the admins handed me an inter-office envelope (she'd seen it sitting in my box for a few days and was going my way) with a Costume Con progress report in it. The impromptu dinner party went off swimmingly, despite the last-minute substitution of the Downstairs Tenant for klwilliams (who was feeling poorly) and a minor delay due to scotica time-shifting the event in her memory. I've completed my jury duty obligations by virtue of a mid-morning check of the web site. I'm skipping my lunchtime bike ride today to make good on my promised recaps of last weekend. The party went swimmingly. I love rhubarb. Turns out I didn't have a rat smart enough to get out of Dodge; I had a lazy lay-a-bed rat who could be bothered to go out foraging before midnight. My call for an impromptu dinner party to partake of another rotisserie experiment rousted out one vegetarian (xrian) so I trolled the neighborhood to round it out with a few carnivores and got bites from both the tenants. In theory I was supposed to start at my new gym today after work, but helping with the tear-down and re-set-up (for grave shift) of the Diversity Day booth (plus finishing the rewrite of the investigation report I want to close) kept me there until after seven, so I just went straight home. It is now that Other Season -- you know, the one that isn't the Dry Season. So I get to take an unanticipated vacation day tomorrow, courtesy of United Airlines canceling my flight today.
Hmm, it almost has a coherent plot. And as a bonus: a review of my irresolutions, posted back on 1/3/08. (Note that the point of "irresolutions" is that there's no moral compulsion to complete them.)
* Do an overhaul of both my SCA and everyday wardrobes. Reasonable start on the everyday wardrobe. Complete fail on the SCA wardrobe (although I did make one entirely new outfit -- the "butler's outfit" for the Perfectly Period Feast).
* Identify six top priority projects (out of the 80+ on my master list) to work on during the year and complete at least three of them. Hmm, a pity that I didnt actually mention which six top priority project I picked. But looking at the database, here are ones I seem to have taken some action on.
1) Do something about the "medieval women in underpants" article -- well, what I did was decided I don't actually have the interest in turning it into a publishable academic article, so I've freed myself up for simply putting the current version up on the web. Haven't put it there, but I'm free to do so. (Actually, I think I did this in 2007 -- clearly I haven't updated the projects database recently.)
2) Get Abiel LaForge's diary up on the web site -- I've done a bit more on this and got ahold of non-corrupted computer files that will make it much easier.
3) Add a field with brief garment descriptions to the Surviving Garments Database to make it easier to scan through search results. -- The descriptions have been added to the database, but I haven't updated the website to include it.
4) Uh ... can't find anything for 4-6. Clearly this was a fail.
* Start playing music regularly again. Fail.
*Complete either a new first draft or a complete revision-of-existing-draft for at least one novel. Fail. Although I have managed to continue working on the "this isn't a real novel, this is just an exercise in getting back in the habit of writing" project.
Irresolute as ever!
I decided not to try to hunt down any New Years Eve parties to attend and this was a Good Decision because I ended up nodding off to sleep around 8pm watching DVDs. I had a moment of very mild freaking out when one of the admins handed me an inter-office envelope (she'd seen it sitting in my box for a few days and was going my way) with a Costume Con progress report in it. The impromptu dinner party went off swimmingly, despite the last-minute substitution of the Downstairs Tenant for klwilliams (who was feeling poorly) and a minor delay due to scotica time-shifting the event in her memory. I've completed my jury duty obligations by virtue of a mid-morning check of the web site. I'm skipping my lunchtime bike ride today to make good on my promised recaps of last weekend. The party went swimmingly. I love rhubarb. Turns out I didn't have a rat smart enough to get out of Dodge; I had a lazy lay-a-bed rat who could be bothered to go out foraging before midnight. My call for an impromptu dinner party to partake of another rotisserie experiment rousted out one vegetarian (xrian) so I trolled the neighborhood to round it out with a few carnivores and got bites from both the tenants. In theory I was supposed to start at my new gym today after work, but helping with the tear-down and re-set-up (for grave shift) of the Diversity Day booth (plus finishing the rewrite of the investigation report I want to close) kept me there until after seven, so I just went straight home. It is now that Other Season -- you know, the one that isn't the Dry Season. So I get to take an unanticipated vacation day tomorrow, courtesy of United Airlines canceling my flight today.
Hmm, it almost has a coherent plot. And as a bonus: a review of my irresolutions, posted back on 1/3/08. (Note that the point of "irresolutions" is that there's no moral compulsion to complete them.)
* Do an overhaul of both my SCA and everyday wardrobes. Reasonable start on the everyday wardrobe. Complete fail on the SCA wardrobe (although I did make one entirely new outfit -- the "butler's outfit" for the Perfectly Period Feast).
* Identify six top priority projects (out of the 80+ on my master list) to work on during the year and complete at least three of them. Hmm, a pity that I didnt actually mention which six top priority project I picked. But looking at the database, here are ones I seem to have taken some action on.
1) Do something about the "medieval women in underpants" article -- well, what I did was decided I don't actually have the interest in turning it into a publishable academic article, so I've freed myself up for simply putting the current version up on the web. Haven't put it there, but I'm free to do so. (Actually, I think I did this in 2007 -- clearly I haven't updated the projects database recently.)
2) Get Abiel LaForge's diary up on the web site -- I've done a bit more on this and got ahold of non-corrupted computer files that will make it much easier.
3) Add a field with brief garment descriptions to the Surviving Garments Database to make it easier to scan through search results. -- The descriptions have been added to the database, but I haven't updated the website to include it.
4) Uh ... can't find anything for 4-6. Clearly this was a fail.
* Start playing music regularly again. Fail.
*Complete either a new first draft or a complete revision-of-existing-draft for at least one novel. Fail. Although I have managed to continue working on the "this isn't a real novel, this is just an exercise in getting back in the habit of writing" project.
Irresolute as ever!
