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2012
2012 was not a good year for me. I think for the most part it represented the culmination of some stupid and cowardly decisions I made several years ago about what my life was going to be like, decisions I now rightly regret. Consequently my 2012 New Year's resolution was "live through this".
I have done that. In 2013 there are two things I will do, in the same week in mid-September: I will be admitted to the roll in England and Wales, and I will marry Shim. These are the solid things. Otherwise - if hard work and faith will do it, this is the year I will put my life back on track towards what I want it to be.
Shim and I have blown through a season and a half of Babylon 5 over the last few days. We are just beginning season 4, and we would've stuck on the season finale and begun again the following night if I hadn't wanted to hear the new opening credits. (Look, I am a total sucker for a portentous opening narration, okay. I even tolerated Enterprise.)
(There is an old story told about a man who believed as he had been taught that there is divinity in all things. He was walking down the street one day when he heard a great commotion and lots of people running the other way screaming. He held his ground for a moment and then a musth elephant lumbered into sight with a mahout desperately clinging on. "Get out of the way, you idiot!" he shouted as they thundered down the street.
"No!" said our hero, standing his ground. "God is in this elephant! He will not hurt me!"
Of course the elephant went straight into him with a squelch. When he came round his guru was at his bedside and he said, "Panditji, you taught me that God was in everything. Is that not so?"
"No, no, beta," said his guru, "God was in the elephant, certainly that was so. But God was also in the mahout, telling you to get out of the way. You should have listened!")
In other words, there are truthful things to be found everywhere, even in the portentous opening narration of fifteen-year-old TV shows. It was the year of rebirth. It was the year everything changed.
( meme )
I read 53 books in 2012 - 54 if I finish Is That A Fish In Your Ear? this afternoon - so not as much as previous years, but enough. I wrote approximately 65,000 words of fanfiction, and a further approx 20,000 words of the novel. I took a term of French classes, I took up swimming regularly, I advanced another year towards qualification. Not a write-off year, but. Can do better. Will do better.
I have done that. In 2013 there are two things I will do, in the same week in mid-September: I will be admitted to the roll in England and Wales, and I will marry Shim. These are the solid things. Otherwise - if hard work and faith will do it, this is the year I will put my life back on track towards what I want it to be.
Shim and I have blown through a season and a half of Babylon 5 over the last few days. We are just beginning season 4, and we would've stuck on the season finale and begun again the following night if I hadn't wanted to hear the new opening credits. (Look, I am a total sucker for a portentous opening narration, okay. I even tolerated Enterprise.)
(There is an old story told about a man who believed as he had been taught that there is divinity in all things. He was walking down the street one day when he heard a great commotion and lots of people running the other way screaming. He held his ground for a moment and then a musth elephant lumbered into sight with a mahout desperately clinging on. "Get out of the way, you idiot!" he shouted as they thundered down the street.
"No!" said our hero, standing his ground. "God is in this elephant! He will not hurt me!"
Of course the elephant went straight into him with a squelch. When he came round his guru was at his bedside and he said, "Panditji, you taught me that God was in everything. Is that not so?"
"No, no, beta," said his guru, "God was in the elephant, certainly that was so. But God was also in the mahout, telling you to get out of the way. You should have listened!")
In other words, there are truthful things to be found everywhere, even in the portentous opening narration of fifteen-year-old TV shows. It was the year of rebirth. It was the year everything changed.
( meme )
I read 53 books in 2012 - 54 if I finish Is That A Fish In Your Ear? this afternoon - so not as much as previous years, but enough. I wrote approximately 65,000 words of fanfiction, and a further approx 20,000 words of the novel. I took a term of French classes, I took up swimming regularly, I advanced another year towards qualification. Not a write-off year, but. Can do better. Will do better.