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[fredericks]

In 2007, fredericks resolves to...

Learn to play the queen.
Give some nautical tales to charity.
Get back in contact with some old garth ennis.
Go to otherland every Sunday.
Be nicer to melancthe.
Eat more tad williams.

Get your own New Year's Resolutions:

And I'd always believed my actions towards melancthe were perfectly civil. Hmph.

I guess real resolutions are required so that I feel sufficiently guilty at year's end. And, you know, have *goals* or some junk. So...

During the course of 2007 I resolve will work really really hard at maybe sometimes:

• Attending a fine arts event biweekly.
  
• Keeping in semi-constant contact with people I consider friends.
  
• Reading twenty works of literature that are commonly considered "classics" (suggestions welcome on this front)
  
• Working through Wheelock's Latin again.
  
• Studying German.
  
• Studying Spanish.
  
• Working out on a regular basis.
  
• Studying for a MS in nurse practitionery.
  
• Contributing as much as possible to my 403(b).
  
• Sticking to a financial budget.
  
• Writing for at least thirty minutes every day.
  

No major life change-y things; I can barely manage planning what I'm going to do in the next half-hour, forget about the next 364 days.

I'm fighting off what seems to be a sinus infection and trying to revel in my last day off before returning back to le job. Started watching S1 of The Wire. Yes, it's beginning to suck me in, although not having oodles of free time on hand has given me the strength to drag out the viewing. I think I was in the middle of 1x04 when I closed up shop a couple of days back. Oh, and I watched the S1 episode of Veronica Mars, "Weapons of Class Destruction". Ha! I applauded when they kissed.

Hmm. I should go lie down now. Yes.

Comments

[theoban.livejournal.com]

I've never seen The Wire - I tend to avoid television as much as possible, as I know my own habits of becoming quickly obsessed with a programme - stupid BSG and Lost (even though I am thoroughly disenchanted with Lost)

Or Veronica Mars - I kind of need to see that though.

And good luck with resolutions. I've already failed 2 of mine!

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

Some classic authors:

Mark Twain
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jane Austen
Emily and Charlotte Bronte
Charles Dickens
Herman Melville
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck

Classic Science Fiction/Fantasy authors:

Robert Heinlein
Isaac Asimov
Ursula K. LeGuin
Ray Bradbury
Madeline L'Engle
J. R. R. Tolkien
C. S. Lewis

There are all kinds of "100 books to read before you die" kind of lists, but those authors are a good start, if classics are the idea.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Aww! There's no such thing as "failure", just "temporary sidetracks". I plan on easing into my resolutions slowly, akin to sneaking up to them and holding them at knifepoint in a dark alley.

The BSG lovetrain has been temporarily derailed for me. I still recommend it to people but I haven't seen the last five or so episodes. Did catch a big part of the 3.0 finale, though. I hope the beginning of 3.5 recaptures my interest. And Veronica Mars is *hilariously* "da bomb. I just just finished S1 - so good.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

I see I'll be raiding the Classics section at my library soon. Thanks for the names!

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

No problem. ^ v ^

[theoban.livejournal.com]

Strange - the 3rd series has had some of my favourite episodes so far. Esp when they get off New Caprica. And the one after that is just...great.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

The one where they get off Caprica I saw. Adama's effin' awesome Battlestar Deathdrop had me pumping my fist at its amazingness. I didn't check out the one after, though. The previews reminded me of the episode in S1 with the tribunal and I just wasn't digging it. I figure I'll catch up before 3.5 kicks in.

I think a part of me wants everything to go back to *normal*. We're sort of there now, I guess, but everything's still all frakked. And what is *with* the Cylon storylines? Meh.