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11:34 / 19.12.05

So should we start a new thread for 2006 or use this one? I´m really lazy, so I predict I´ll be lazy in ayear from now, too.

And I´m curious, what your plans for 2006 might be!

Ex

12:51 / 19.12.05

I didn't attain my goal, mainly because it was based on a single possible, which didn't. I dabbled with inspirational postcards but got sick of Zora Neale Hurston falling down the back of the radiator.

I'm pleased with 2005. I've been a disorganised young scramble. But I have a couple of articles out in the Spring. And I was ceaselessly cheerful, which is the main thing.

This time next year in the same style:
I will be correcting the proofs on my shiny novel/academic monograph. If it's a novel, I will be sighing with relief that (after some hard-ball negotiating) the cover is not a Meg Rosoff Ripoff with foil red leaves on a matte black background. Instead, it's a subtle image, reflecting the complex themes of the work and/or fitting many hot vampires in round the embossed lettering. (If it's an academic monograph, the cover will probably be grey. Which is sad.)

I will take a short break to eat the three kinds of cheese in the fridge. I will remark to my devastatingly attractive companion that it's a wonder I get it all done, what with my adequately-paid job.

I will be played by Tilda Swinton.

wembley can change in 28 days

15:19 / 19.12.05

hm...

1) be able to do a free-standing handstand (almost)
2) juggle four (almost)
3) be 8 kilos lighter
4) have written a full-length play
5) speak finnish around my finnish friends
6) have read 25 books, 40 plays, and seen 20 performances (I'm probably close to this in the books and performances)
7) have traveled to 5 new countries (a cruise in march already takes care of 4 of these) (Mexico, Belize, Grand Cayman, Honduras, Egypt)
8) have performed in/directed something (check)
9) have dented my student loan by $4,000 CDN
10) have experienced bouncing-off-the-walls sex (no bouncing, no walls, in fact no sex at ALL)

Well, some out of 10 ain't bad. (Rothko: I think I'm as much to blame as the chilly damp in London, so no worries!)

For 2006, I have everything above that's not completed plus:

1) Direct a Shakespeare
2) Get a professional acting gig
3) Find/steal/conjure up/construct out of pleasant materials a boyfriend

20:03 / 19.12.05

1) Cycle hands free.
2) Put on a lot more weight.
3) Have an uncomfortable, yet exhilarating, day (/3 hours? I have done Pilates. Once.) in April which involves pushing a proportion of that weight out of my front bottom and increasing family size by one.
4) Lose rest of weight slowly, calmly and mainly through the boobies.
4) Attempt to maintain (?) the capacity to converse with adults.
5) Find a feasible childcare option.
6) Write at least a synopsis of my novella trilogy.
7) Do my pelvic floor exercises.

The Return Of Rothkoid

20:41 / 19.12.05

Wembley: in just seven days...

18:34 / 20.12.05

Some sleep would do just fine.

Earlier than I thought

19:15 / 20.12.05

- Get a decent teaching job.
- Get the magic working.
- Crack on with that half finished novel.
- Sort out - um - that situation that I'm not going to share with you. But you know what kind of thing I mean. Resolve those issues and that set of problems one way or another (ominous). Once and for all, and that. You know - (raises eyebrows, nods towards other room, conspiratorially).
- Go back to New York. Again.

I predict that the penultimate one will still be screwed in December 2006.

paranoidwriter waves hello

20:32 / 20.12.05

1) I'll found a way to get past the things that seem to have made me increasingly misanthropic over the years and more selfish with my time and energy. In short, I'll have stopped being such a hermit, be more sociable like I was many moons ago, and actually enjoy the experience.

2) Having got my mitts on some relatively cheap but decent enough digital recording technology, I'll have at least ten of my songs finally recorded cleanly and in their entirety -- having only one channel left on my old but much loved 4 track tape recorder is fucking frustrating.

3) As I've recently finally broken a barrier and started to actually enjoy reading fiction again, I'm going to sailed along on this much needed sea-change and added at least four completely new (and hopefully decent) short-stories to my site.

4) I'll have finally grown up and stopped moaning to myself about having to work long hours for shit money. I'll have knuckled down, I'll have a better grip of my finances, paid off a decent enough chunk of money to the bailiffs, and thus, hopefully, stopped dreaming about gangsters, the police, fortean monsters, and other unnerving shadowy thingummies (etc) chasing me for something I can never seem to give them.

5) I'll have laughed a lot more.

Whisky Priestess

17:03 / 22.12.05

I might as well set up some shame and failure for next year as soon as possible, so ... by the end of '06, I shall ...

1) have finished my half-written second novel
2) ... and got a decent book deal for it
3) have written some more poetry and short stories
4) have got some kind of job - pub, temping, whatever - to pay my tuition fees
5) have graduated, hopefully with a decent mark, from my MA
6) have invented a dazzling new cocktail
7) have arranged to go somewhere cool (like a tower) for Christmas
8) have brokered a relationship (or at least a shag) between my GBF and my lonely lovely gay coursemate
9) have attended my sister's wedding to her cowboy (bit of a long shot, this one, but a girl's gotta dream)
10) (this one's spare so I can insert something unanticipated that I did)

In 2005 many many cool things happened, but the least expected was that I acquired my own chaise longue - a lifelong ambition, weirdly enough.

17:26 / 22.12.05

1)Graduated

2) found some form of employmnet/ disappeared further up my bottom into even-higher education

3)done just a little exercise cos' that heart o' mine won't stop expanding by itself (and there is the wee issue of bad family history therein). Oh, adn it would be nice not to look in the mirror and see Gollum.

4)written something and sent it to every damn publisher in the fockin' country. Yes.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:39 / 23.12.05

I'l have finally got used to writing 2006 on cheques and stuff instead of 2005, just to realise that I have to start the process all over again for 2007...

Life really is just unending torment, isn't it?

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