really, more blogging in the new year, and not really just blogging, another usually bi-annual revamp, restart, reskinning, this time, maybe I’ll stick to it. I’m going to commit to 5 posts a week, set on a schedule, starting with a fresh database, with set, well thought out category and tagging schemata. it will be updated, it will be content rich, it will be organized, it will be good.
cold, neglected coffee and packing up my room. I’ve filled one box with papers and two with books so far today. I own too much shit. I need to get rid of things, especially bulkly things, I’m tempted to get rid of my desktop because it’s big, loud and power hungry. I would then have to forgoe video games given my linux-based laptop, I’d still want something to watch movies and my extensive collection of television I’ve torrented over the last 3 or 4 years. One of these plus a Drobo and big-ass wall mounted display or TV would be fucking great.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
was awesome. that goes almost without saying, i thought I’d have a great time, and I did once I got past my nervousness. i’m already looking forward to next year and I’m still in the hotel. One great thing that’s already come out of this is something I think will happen with increasingly regularity: I stumbled across a review looking for books by Steve Eickson and came across a review of Allistair Reynold’s most recent book by one of of the people who’d told me I should read Erickson. He also suggested a very smooth, smokey scotch to me. Anyway, this confrence was great and I think I’ll be gearing a lot more free time [once I have time that isn't free] toward scholarship and helping out the organization. Great fun will be had. More on that later. I must remember to look around at Drupal when I get a chance.
I’ve decided here, half of the way through the calendar year and all the way into post-graduation life that I’m going to make a couple of small resolutions toward my general self-improvement:
There are of course other more nebulous goals that are implicit, like “write more!” or “read more!” or “find a fucking job” but those are a lot less concrete and harder to pin down. I’m starting smaller here, since my two New Year’s resolutions have stuck so far, Read 52 books and watch 104 movies. As of this writing I’ve read 27 books and watched 55 movies and I’m currently in week 27.
I’d also like to write here and post things here more often, making an effort to keep to some sort of schedule about putting stuff up here, just so there’s a stream of stuff daily just so I can be doing something to point to and see I’ve not frittered away my whole day. I’m thinking a picture 5 days a week and some MP3 blogging M-W-F like I’d planned previously. I’ve also really got to get a better theme up on here, I want something black and blue and grey and eerie, also with two columns. This would be a lot easier if I was a competant html/CSS coder. I know enough html to format forum posts but not much beyond that, so I’m stuff trying to hack away at customizing a pre-existing template. I’ll have to dig around for one I like tomorrow and start picking out this week’s pictures and music.
I’d like also to write some flash and short fiction in much larger quantities and get a better handle on Linux Administration and Bash scripting and the like. We’ll see how much I can keep to a schedule, it should be easier to do all of these things and also get out of my dank dark basement room because I am now in possession of a laptop computer.
Finally, I’ve got to decide whether to go back to SFQuarterly, or, more realistically, when to go back, since I do enjoy working for them, once I get back into the rhythm of things.
Anyway, I’m going to read a book until I pass out and try really hard to get out of bed before noon tomorrow so I can go down to the North End and eat pizza and go see a movie with Chelsea.
