As dew in April, that falleth on the grass
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ventaBookkeeping for New Year's Resolutions, April edition.
Sleeping
The lethargy which seems to have been afflicting me since the start of the year has finally sodded off, which is nice. I wouldn't like to claim that I've been leaping out of bed with alacrity, but I have stopped feeling quite so zombie-like.
This coincided more-or-less exactly with the weather suddenly waking up and noticing that Spring really ought to be here. This bugs me; I've always been a person who loves winter, and the prospect of turning into someone who gets all SAD in the cold months is unwelcome for all the obvious reasons, plus it dents my sense of self badly. I am going to view it as an anomaly.
I've also declared myself recovered from all the various injuries sustained at the beginning of the year, so have begun cycling to work again and resumed some rather tentative running. I'm hoping this will have a positive effect of my general limpness, as well.
Writing
Technically, my success criterion is submitting a bit of writing to someone, somewhere. Last month I wrote a lot, but submitted nothing nowhere. This month I've written not an awful lot, but did send a YA story off to a website.
If only I could combine these two strategies :)
I have formed myself into a writers' circle with a couple of friends (OK, legally a writers' triangle). Calendar issues abounded in April, but two of us had an inaugural evening (a writers' line, I suppose) of reading aloud and trying to give constructive criticism. It looks like this is going to be useful, both for the feedback and for forcing me to come up with a written thing once a fortnight.
Reading
The library came up with the goods, furnishing me with three books from my list for the princely charge of 80p each. Which reminds me, I must order some more...
... which I have now done.
My local library is tiny, but the Ealing Libraries website does make it pretty simple to reserve books from other libraries. Reviews to follow.
Sleeping
The lethargy which seems to have been afflicting me since the start of the year has finally sodded off, which is nice. I wouldn't like to claim that I've been leaping out of bed with alacrity, but I have stopped feeling quite so zombie-like.
This coincided more-or-less exactly with the weather suddenly waking up and noticing that Spring really ought to be here. This bugs me; I've always been a person who loves winter, and the prospect of turning into someone who gets all SAD in the cold months is unwelcome for all the obvious reasons, plus it dents my sense of self badly. I am going to view it as an anomaly.
I've also declared myself recovered from all the various injuries sustained at the beginning of the year, so have begun cycling to work again and resumed some rather tentative running. I'm hoping this will have a positive effect of my general limpness, as well.
Writing
Technically, my success criterion is submitting a bit of writing to someone, somewhere. Last month I wrote a lot, but submitted nothing nowhere. This month I've written not an awful lot, but did send a YA story off to a website.
If only I could combine these two strategies :)
I have formed myself into a writers' circle with a couple of friends (OK, legally a writers' triangle). Calendar issues abounded in April, but two of us had an inaugural evening (a writers' line, I suppose) of reading aloud and trying to give constructive criticism. It looks like this is going to be useful, both for the feedback and for forcing me to come up with a written thing once a fortnight.
Reading
The library came up with the goods, furnishing me with three books from my list for the princely charge of 80p each. Which reminds me, I must order some more...
... which I have now done.
My local library is tiny, but the Ealing Libraries website does make it pretty simple to reserve books from other libraries. Reviews to follow.
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Date: 2013-05-07 05:01 pm (UTC)I'm better! I am! (Hopefully not followed two days later by a wince, a twinge, and tentative acknowledgement that waiting an extra week might have been less unreasonable) *grins*
Does that mean you cycle all the way from your home to work and back?
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Date: 2013-05-07 05:06 pm (UTC)As for the wincing and twinging, it's hard to tell :( Unrelated to January's injuries, I have a vaguely unspecified bad knee, which gets worse due to lack of exercise. So at present it's really, really painful. I feel like I shouldn't be cycling (hills are most unpleasant) but the medical profession assures me that it's good for me and I'm not doing any damage!