Exit Life Through Window

I need to:

Sort out my Flist (by which I mean, purge communities/journals that I routinely skip over. I love each and every one of you but my interests are changing and some of us just don't match anymore :( )
Sort out my room
Learn German (seriously)
Sort out going to Germany!
Get gigs
Practise for gigs
WRITE SONGS

The end.

Things I want to do this summer (now that it is in sight - only a week and a half to go before I can STOP WORRYING ABOUT UNI!!):

~ finish a chaptered fic (either Cloak and Dagger or I am the Pusher)
~ write my fic for femgenficathon
~ exercise! And get a flat stomach!
~ have fun in Spain
~ take some good photos
~ write some good songs
~ sort out all my stuff so that I can slim down my possessions for Berlin - if I don't want it there, I'm never going to want it, am I? (Unless for sentimental reasons, heh)
~ create a piece of artwork
~ spend quality time with Trev
~ go to Copenhagen with la mere et la petite soeur
~ organise getting my stuff to Berlin
~ sort out everything with the Humboldt - language course, signing on, course signups, choir!
~ spend time in the park
~ have a house party
~ go out for drinks!
~ get a better job (tour guiding?)

That'll do for now :)

So which ones have I actually completed, this month?

January

• Write my hp_springsmut fic (bunnies are already hopping around... hurrah!)

Not yet, that'll have to go on the February list. But I have plotted it, so that's something... The bunnies did a bit of jumping, hee :)

• Go to Waterstones and buy the PostSecret book and something else self-confidence inducing/on meditation (oh dear, am resorting to self help books... feel am turning into Bridget Jones! hehehe)

No, but I did buy the lonely planet 132 days book, and started planning a holiday, which helped cheer me up.

• Go for coffee/drinks with the following people: Holly, Lisbee, Emily, Sarah, Jane, Luba, Darja, Nate, Nick, Alex, Eugenia - possibly in combination!
  So I managed 7 off that list, but I did also have drinks with German play people and people I've just met through MT, so I think I did pretty well on that front.
  
• Call Rosemary

We had a nice long conversation :)

• Go to a party/ have a gathering/ go clubbing

Woo for my bday!

• Review every fiction book/ fanfic read at mk_recs. Don't read fic if don't have time to review!

I recced everything I enjoyed, and stopped reading the ones I didn't.

• Do a bit on every essay once a week.

Shamefully no. But I'm starting that one properly tonight, and as of February it will be done.

• Do reading for classes and make notes.

Well... kinda. More so than before Christmas, anyways. It's a start, and I hope to improve. The notetaking has got a lot better though, it's just the reading.

• Spend four afternoons in the library, and one in the BFI library.

Nope, have barely been. But I don't need to go to the BFI yet, or the library. So good. Next month I will have to though... not sure when I'm going to find the time, but I'm going to make the effort.

• Go and see Spamalot.

Twas fantastic... always look on the bright side of life!!

• Make exercise tape for singing lessons, and practice 8 times during the month.

We only got around to making it last week, so that one kinda didn't happen!

• Spend time taking photos of: countryside, London streets, parks, the canal, nightlife

I spent a pleasant evening in Greenwich with my camera. I'm going to take more for my Winter collection on Sunday, however, since me and Trev are going to the Zoo! Hurrah! :)

Today's was that my mother has surprisingly more conservative views than I ever thought. Funny really, that just because she never thought to mention certain things she disapproves of, I grew up really very open-minded, and now I keep getting surprised when I bring things up in conversation that I have no problem with and she gets all conservative! Ah well. We all choose our own path sooner or later, I suppose.

I wrote a long and angst filled post about birthdays etc yesterday, and then realised that it was a load of wank that nobody (including myself in days to come) would want to read, so I got rid of it and set about something more productive instead. So I have had rather a good day, all told. I got to play the Sims for a bit (hurrah, I am such a geek) and worked out when I'm going to do all my essay reading over the next few days. I've just started brainstorming for the first of those now, and it's going quite well - the primary material's interesting, and the secondary material so far seems to have been written by very human people (and I do love reading academic stuff written 40 years ago - there's something very warm and fuzzy about the image of old professors wearing tweed and writing about the source author as if he's an old chum). So it should be fun.

My other aim for this weekend is to come up with some meaningful resolutions. I know a couple already, but I'm saving them for the 31st - it means more if I set them in stone then, I think. But I want some to do with personal aims - psychological development, relationship with others, widening my circle of friends and socialising - and some to do with on here - some kind of project I stick to, probably in fandom - and some to do with academia and career - songwriting, academic development, getting more "culture", the german play/singing lessons/music theatre review... anyways, I need to go through and clarify all of those into things I'll vow to stick to. I'm taking it seriously this year. I think it's time to.

On another note (and because everyone else seems to be doing it!) Christmas has been good to me :) I got lots of nice stuff - an 8GB Sony mp3 player (a lot better than an ipod - and it's all shiny and pretty and black! and it shows fireworks on the display screen!), a really good wok, which I needed desperately!, some artwork and a belt from my sis, and some nice stuff for my room at uni - a massive fan from the Pier for my wall, and a really cute ornament of a black cat looking down at a mouse. Plus I got some good books - Colin Thubron's Shadow of the Silk Road, a book on propaganda in the films of Stalin's Russia and Nazi Germany, and a digital photography guide. Oh, and the DVD of Pleasantville - such a good film! Trev bought me an absolutely gorgeous necklace whilst we were in Berlin, too (and a stuffed penguin! It's an in joke...) and I got the usual selection of chocolate and stuff... enough to keep me going for a while. So all has been good at home!

Speaking of Berlin, photos are here, if anyone's interested.