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The 2009/2010 Post?
Jan. 2nd, 2010 11:55 amEveryone's posting year end/year start posts, and I dunno. I could make some goals and post them here, I suppose. I actually did make some writing goals after reading the first part of Booklife (by the awesome Jeff Vandermeer), but I'm reluctant to say too much about them in public. I think I will jealously hoard them all for myself. (Note: Hoard and horde are two different words. I've been using the former when I meant the latter lately because I type without thinking.)
I visited the ER on Christmas Eve. It was a very nice, quiet, plush, huge ER. Not at all what television would lead you to believe. They had a Christmasy 700 Club on the television. I have no idea whose choice that was. One of the patients ahead of me looked like Santa Claus. If he was late getting to your house, that's why. The ER PA and nurse did very little. Recommended surgery, but no surgeons would come in for something non-emergent on Christmas Eve. Or Christmas Day. Or Saturday. Or Sunday. And oh, by the way, now that it's Monday and we're actually answering our phones, we can't fit you in until Tuesday. When the surgeon finally saw me and recommended against surgery anyhow. So I had an annoying Christmas week. How was yours?
Feeling better now. Not 100%. Plan to go back to work for Tuesday. Have not, yet, caught any bugs (viral, bacterial, or insectal), knock on wood.
Was waffling on whether I'd post on lj about any of that, but there you go.
Now on to books.
I read 113 books this year. Towards the end, I was writing short reviews on all of them on goodreads, which also got pushed to facebook. I also review for Triple Take (http://www.flaminggeeks.com/tripletake/), so you can find longer reviews of specific books there. We do one a month, as a general rule. Next up, the PLANETES manga. Followed by N. K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.
I didn't break my list out into fiction, nonfiction, manga, kid's books, etc. Or by genre or author or any of that. I do have a list of everything, so I could if I felt like it. But I don't currently feel like it.
It was 25 fewer books than the year before and my lowest year since 2006. Too much time wasated on Facebook games this year.
The first book I read in 2009 was the manga, Fruits Basket, volume 4 and the last book I read was Halfway Human by Carolyn Ives Gilman, based on a recommendation on the Outer Alliance Google group.
My resolution for the new year should be to stop borrowing and ILLing books from the library just because I get bored or see something shiny. 40-50+ books out simultaneously is really just ridiculous.
Another resolution should be to clean my room.
A third resolution should be to lose some weight.
A fourth resolution should be to write more. And I feel that's my highest priority, so we'll work on that.
And now I've surprised myself by writing a 2009/2010 post when I didn't think I was going to.
I visited the ER on Christmas Eve. It was a very nice, quiet, plush, huge ER. Not at all what television would lead you to believe. They had a Christmasy 700 Club on the television. I have no idea whose choice that was. One of the patients ahead of me looked like Santa Claus. If he was late getting to your house, that's why. The ER PA and nurse did very little. Recommended surgery, but no surgeons would come in for something non-emergent on Christmas Eve. Or Christmas Day. Or Saturday. Or Sunday. And oh, by the way, now that it's Monday and we're actually answering our phones, we can't fit you in until Tuesday. When the surgeon finally saw me and recommended against surgery anyhow. So I had an annoying Christmas week. How was yours?
Feeling better now. Not 100%. Plan to go back to work for Tuesday. Have not, yet, caught any bugs (viral, bacterial, or insectal), knock on wood.
Was waffling on whether I'd post on lj about any of that, but there you go.
Now on to books.
I read 113 books this year. Towards the end, I was writing short reviews on all of them on goodreads, which also got pushed to facebook. I also review for Triple Take (http://www.flaminggeeks.com/tripletake/), so you can find longer reviews of specific books there. We do one a month, as a general rule. Next up, the PLANETES manga. Followed by N. K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.
I didn't break my list out into fiction, nonfiction, manga, kid's books, etc. Or by genre or author or any of that. I do have a list of everything, so I could if I felt like it. But I don't currently feel like it.
It was 25 fewer books than the year before and my lowest year since 2006. Too much time wasated on Facebook games this year.
The first book I read in 2009 was the manga, Fruits Basket, volume 4 and the last book I read was Halfway Human by Carolyn Ives Gilman, based on a recommendation on the Outer Alliance Google group.
My resolution for the new year should be to stop borrowing and ILLing books from the library just because I get bored or see something shiny. 40-50+ books out simultaneously is really just ridiculous.
Another resolution should be to clean my room.
A third resolution should be to lose some weight.
A fourth resolution should be to write more. And I feel that's my highest priority, so we'll work on that.
And now I've surprised myself by writing a 2009/2010 post when I didn't think I was going to.
