gillpolack @ 2012-01-01T17:05:00

2011 was tiring. Early in the year friends and relatives kept dying, late in the year, friends and relatives kept dying and stuff just kept on and kept on going *wrong*. I had a totally amazing April to September, however. Those months contained some of the most awesome days of the last five years.

I don't have much planned for this year besides getting this degree done and more writing done and starting to look for an academic-style job. Plus earning enough money to live on. Plus... OK, it's another big year. Just differently structured.

I'm not travelling so much this year because I haven't planned anything. This doesn't mean I won't travel - it just means I told myself it would be a quietly workaholic year. If the finances and the opportunities arise, I will travel.

And now I have 40 pages to look at before dinner. After dinner I get to look at the same number of pages, but non-fiction. Tomorrow I might have freed some time to do a review or two, if I stick to this schedule.

That reminds me, Canberra folks, Hogfather is on next Saturday and I have (thanks to my wonderful niece) some tooth fairy teeth (from the set). If you wish to do a viewing with food, you might want to email me. If you want us to invent Hogwatch food, this can be done. I have medlar liqueur that's crying for decanting. I still have chocolate coins (because they multiply) and my library is open for lending again, thanks to one of my work experience students (which reminds me, I must blog the interview she did with her favourite author - watch this space).