Well, focusing on what 2018 was like for me...
It did not start terribly well, I was quite depressed in January, partly due to its being the anniversary of my father's death and partly due to partner having a bad and lingering go of that nasty flu that was going around in spite of having had the relevant jab some months previous.
However.
I managed ( Read more... )

Oliver Burkeman on various strategies alleged to Increase BRAYNPOWAH, and with some scepticism. The conclusion - that you can waste a lot of time trying to jazz up the little grey cells when you could be doing something else - sounded to me like it was crying out for comparison with the idea that getting the right kind of organisational software/ ( Read more... )

As in (Saki, bless) 'she was the kind of woman who lives for others'.

Why I did a good deed every day (and somehow, this reminds of the 'we had sex every day for a year/I spent a year being celibate/etc' trope: and lo and behold, this project has also resulted in a book).
As a working mother, I could barely keep the plates spinning as it was, how ( Read more... )

I am sure we shall shortly be in for yet another round of assorted stuff about New Year Resolutions.

Has anyone, ever, addressed the subject of Old Year Resolutions, or
DAMMIT, I SHOULD REALLY GET THIS OUT OF THE WAY BEFORE XMAS/THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER YEAR, DAMMIT

Which seems to have been a bit of a theme around these parts lately, or maybe it's ( Read more... )

Not exactly a resolution, but, what I have the intention of doing:

Working on two articles that are things I want to write, rather than chapters people have claimed that I am the only possible person to undertake. One of them is an expansion of a conference paper I gave, uh, several years ago, and will involve going to the British Library (and ( Read more... )

Well, I'll get the bad stuff out of the way first:

Too much health bother, none of it (ultimately) serious but more than I like, from the itching episode early in the year, the three bouts of lurgi sufficient to keep me off work for a week or more at a time, and the 'appointment for additional tests' most recently, which may have come out all clear ( Read more... )

Remember to take time to stop and smell the flowers, observe the scenery and the passing show, slow down.

But this is too funny and apposite not to post:

In the year 2005 I resolve to:

Become one with my inner sociopath.

Get your resolution here

Because, oh dear yes, I spend a lot of my time repressing my inner sociopath.