d_aulnoy | (no subject)

If my f-list has a theme right now, it might be titled "SUCK IT, 2009."  Seriously, the last time I saw people hate so hard en masse, the Bush administration was front and center. We never did put them first against the wall when the revolution came, but we nevertheless saw their tail end (tale end?) ... so, 2009, good riddance, and fare well.

Wanna vent about 2009?  Mi comments thread es su comments thread. Wanna talk about what you want out of 2010?  Ditto.

Me?  I'm hoping that I can be less angry in 2010. The other day I split my knuckles for the first time since my mid-twenties and I felt like a damned ass for it, but, hey, it got me through the night. In 2010, I look forward to developing more mature coping mechanisms.

More lightheartedly, I look forward to looking to cook Chinese. Also, to learning to belly-dance, returning to silver-smithing, playing more pool, and making new friends to replace the ones I lost along the way. Possibly curbing my abuse of puns, parentheses, and punctuation (and possibly, developing it to yet greater heights). What, aside from losingweightsavingmoneycuringcancerbringingpeaceinourtime, is on your list?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I don't know. The middle part of 2009 was horrible, and some of the early part. But the last quarter was utterly stellar, with some of the best personal and professional developments I could have asked for. So it's all kind of flush at the end, for me.

Writing a thesis, actually learning how to knit properly, and getting back into beading.

The first half of 2009 was actually not too bad - or perhaps it was just such an improvement over the shock and hell of 2008 that it felt that way.

It was the second half, a time of limbo, that proved problematic.

Ironically, the part that looks best on the surface - the writing/publication side - is the part of the year I'm least satisfied with.

In 2010 I want to be more satisfied with my writing. That is somewhat under my control.

SUCK IT, 2009.

Can I be part of helping to teach you to cook? Pretty please?

Dear gods, YES PLEASE. I need all the help I can get, and from a certified Cooking Ninja, well .... :)

Okay! Let me just get done feeding hundreds of people for four days and we'll schedule something. *)

Ooh, I hope you enjoy learning to belly dance! I know Sara Solstice is in NYC and she's reputedly awesome as an instructor (from what I've seen of her performances, she's great in that area too). But then, you're in a large coastal city, you're practically SWIMMING in belly dancers, it shouldn't be hard for you to find someone whose style you like. :)

I want to learn to hoop and spin poi, as well as continue studying African dance and evolving as a belly dancer. That, and actually write my dissertation. ;p Some of these things got their start in 2009, and while it was a tumultuous year at times, I really didn't feel like it was much crazier than any other year. *shrug*

You split the knuckles? Nice one. :)

2010: make new and better books, own the social internet (or at least be more available for my friends in other countries) and somehow get to America in July for Readercon. Also, make progress on the house in France so we can move there in 2011.

I wish us all luck. And fortitude. And unsplit knuckles.

Yep. NOT my proudest moment.

Only tangentially related ... you're thinking of doing ReaderCon? That makes it about umpteen times more tempting ....

I am seriously thinking of doing Readercon. It's all about the money, really. If you think you might be there, then I'll just sell my soul to the highest bidder and be done with it. LOL

2009 involved a lot of lonely; I had just moved and didn't know many people, and I worked an a-typical schedule. In 2010 I'd like to learn better skills to love and support the friends I have, and continue to cultivate networks of people here. I hadn't moved entirely (though folk had moved around me) to a new place in 10 years, so I was past due, but damn, I had forgotten how hard it can be.

My roomie and friend and I will also be taking a belly-dancing class together (if we are buddies, we're less inclined to skip it when tired/blah/etc.).

I am looking forward to working on a local/organic farm this spring, baking bread for the anarchist co-op, and working for social justice (my life has been too empty of it, of late). I also want to vamp my French translation/grammar skills so I can take the Academe exam at the end of the year.

I wish you (all) the best of luck! and I agree, healthier coping mechanisms = for the win.

I'm hoping to get past just functioning at work and move on to enjoying it/making meaningful (and maybe even innovative) contributions to my field again. And I have some stories I need to finish writing.

All this while avoiding disaster, hopefully.

Given that you have an interest in fairy tales, and that college professors tend to be smart (!), I'd like to add you to my friends list if that's okay. I had an old blog here at LJ which I'd been neglecting a bit owing to other commitments. But I've started the new year/decade with a new one. Normally I keep my friends list small so it's easier to keep up with people, but this time I thought I'd encourage it to grow a bit more.

I too know the guilt of the abandoned blog ... I think one of my unspoken resolutions for this year will be to maintain this one a bit more actively. So, by all means, join in! All your user interests are an eerie match for stuff I like, so I think we'll get on well. :)

I took out a paid account this time, to motivate myself. But I missed blogging hugely, so I'm glad to be doing it again.