aaah, the new year…

Aaah, the new year, in which (whether one admits it aloud or not) one has the best of intentions: Tomorrow, one secretly promises oneself on New Year’s Eve, I shall get up early, eat a sensible breakfast, clean the office, write five thousand words of heartbreaking genius, make a loaf of bread, clean the kitchen, do laundry, go to the gym, make a lovely dinner, and have a pleasant, relaxing evening after studying Spanish and the tin whistle for half an hour each. And that will be the shape of…

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

2008 has arrived safely here in Cork, Ireland, and I should say judging from the fireworks and cheers that it’ll be a good and welcome year for all! *raises a glass and beams all around*!

revolution!

I typically do not make resolutions, but set myself some goals for the upcoming year. I don’t keep resolutions, but I’m pretty good at trying to achieve goals. :) I also tend to be very…work-oriented. (I’ve had people ask me to talk more about my life on my blog, and a bit less about writing. The terrible thing is, I *do*. This should give you an idea of how much life I have outside of writing!) For example, the one revolution I *totally* failed to keep in 2007 was the…

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thinks to do

arright, a bunch of thinks to do which are setup for launching into 2008: – print TPC proposal – email paul – email mark – email jenn – see if there’s a wordpress semagic equivilant – set up an rss feed for my growing list of links? – make a shopping list – go shopping without forgetting the list – add things to this list as I think of them

Sick. again.

I have had a stupid number of colds this year. I got sick at Pi-Con in August and remained that way pretty much straight through the third week of November. I had a variety of colds previous to that, mostly coinciding with any time I saw my nephews (which is really depressing). I’ve got another one now (coinciding, I’m afraid, with having seen my nephews.) I am very, very tired of having colds. I’m so tired of it I’m even tired of complaining about them, so aside from this one…

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