New Years' Resolutions.(Meme 2/3).

Back home in Moorhead now, with much to report and a wonderful vacation under my belt.  That said, I've got a lot to do now.  Including:

Lose 30 pounds or 6 inches off my waistline.  My maximum healthy weight for my body type is about 180.  Currently I weigh 205.  The last time I was under that healthy weight, I wore a 32, and now I'm up at 38.  I won't consider myself really physically fit until I'm back down to one of those two.  Last year I cut pop out of my diet entirely; it's crept back in, and I need to change that.  I need to watch my portion sizes and stop being such a pig, and I need to exercise.  REally, this *should* be the easiest goal on my list...

Write 250 words of fiction per day.  Blog 5 days a week.  I tend to do well at these toward the beginning of the year and fall off as ir progresses.  I need to find a way to steel my resolve and stick to it.

Any time someone asks me to write a letter, make a phone call, or sign a petition for a political cause I believe in, I'm going to do it.  Working as a canvasser really stressed for me just how little effort and time that really takes, and showed me some pretty impressive statistics on what it can accomplish.

Oh hey! Yuletide reveals are in!

This year for Yuletide, I wrote The True Death of Frank Gardiner, a Cthulhu Mythos story about a shanghaied pearl diver that has been very well received. The style is, to some extent, a pastiche of Lovecraft, and while I like the Mythos, I'm not so fond of the writing style itself, so I was very uncertain whether or not the story would be any good. The verdict seems to be that it worked, so I'm glad, if still suffering the usual ambivalence I have toward my own work...

I received Dawn Breaks, a Persona 4 story that takes a look at Chie, Naoto, and Souji years later. It fit my request to a T, so obviously I am very pleased with it. All I can really say is... I want more in that same vein, XD. It matched my headcanon very well.


I also took the opportunity to archive all my (readable) fanfiction over at the new archive site - check it out if you're interested, and if I'm missing any stories you'd like to see up there, let me know. I'd forgotten many of those stories existed up until I went hunting for work to post...

...Okay. Sleep times.