Year in fic / OTW / NYR

Instead of writing a list of fics that I wrote this year, I updated my List of Fics. Because I hadn't actually done that since May. So, woo, yay, an update. You may catch up with all fics you may have missed, broken down by fandom, here: kangeiko's fic.

The mythical Actual Website (tm) still continues to be mythical. *sigh* At the moment, I can't get my ftp client to talk to the website. This is a source of great woe, as I can't be bothered to try particularly hard. Woe some more.

Today, I watched most of Life on Mars S1 (ZOMG awesome!!) and ate yummy things, and slept a lot, and unsubbed from otw_news.

Now, this last also caused great consternation, as I'd been suspiciously circling the community for a while. I liked it back when it was fanacrhive, and was all for it, but after it underwent The Change (tm), my ehtusiasm took a nosedive. Simply put, all the fun things didn't seem fun anymore when presented with a schedule and rota and cleaning list, and bunk beds in dormitories. I think I'm a little too old to have other people arbitrarily appoint themselves in authority over me, particularly when I don't actually see a reason for that.

So, that was troubling me. And given that the organisation had become formal, I no longer felt comfortable lurking on the sidelines, when merely being a member of the community was, to my mind, membership of the organisation itself - an organisation I'd already decided I was somewhat uncomfortable with. So, off it went. I'll have to keep abreast of current developments via metafandom, I suppose.

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I've nearly completed my '50 books' NYR for 2007. I'm giving myself a couple of extra days because I'm in the middle of a couple of books... "I'll start, so I'll finish," as it were!

My resolutions for 2008 have been drawn up, though, so let's have a go at them as well:

1. Read 50 books during 2008. Nice and easy, given that I've more or less managed it in 2007, and that was an exam-heavy year.
2. Start going to a class regularly. This can be pilates or yoga or dancing, but I need to start attending some sort of class, more as stress relief than actual exercise. Shaddup, it's important.
3. The law school thing. Figure out what I want to do & do it.
4. Cook something healthy & wonderful at least twice a week. This will become imperative once athena25 moves in with wingsmith and I lose my source of freshly-cooked food.
5. Try not to knacker myself with work. It's only work, after all, and there are ways to make it bearable.
6. Finish the 100fandoms challenge. There are only 30 or so fics needed for that, and I'm all ready to launch into a few new fandoms, so this shouldn't be impossible.
7. Do not sign up to any more ficathons, excepting yuletide, of course, which has never been a source of stress for me but is instead immense fun with no bad side effects (as I invariably end up writing over the Xmas break). I keep wanting to include other ficathons in there, but I suspect that work will be ridiculously busy this year, and I really don't want to end up defaulting on anything!
8. Stop promising people more fic until I finish the fic I already owe people. There is a folder in my inbox called 'FIC TO WRITE': empty it.
9. Make time to see that lovely boy that I am almost sort of possibly seeing. Because he's not, in fact, an axe murderer, or weird in any way. If things stop working there, start saying 'yes' to invites & dates & things. Have already established that boys are not icky.
10. Make time to see my friends a lot more. I currently only really see athena25, wingsmith and queenspanky with any regularity, and one of those lives with me! Must do better.

I think that's a good number, don't you?