A friend posted this list 25 Things to Do Before You Turn 25 up on Facebook today. It's full of fairly good advice, although the title makes me feel old. But mostly I liked the last thing in the list...

25. Quit that job that’s making you miserable, end the relationship that makes you act like a lunatic, lose the friend whose sole purpose in life ( Read more... )

The 50 book challenge once again ( Read more... )

Same as last year, I intend to:
1. Read & review at least 50 books
2. Update this blog more
3. Improve my Chinese (from survival to conversational)
4. Buy another sewing machine and learn to make clothes, rather than just altering them, and
5. Learn how to make fantasy maps with GIMP 2 ( Read more... )

I currently work part-time teaching ESOL discussion classes at a tiny school in Auckland. The school itself is terrible (and will therefore remain unnamed!) but the students are great. Because the school's resouces are minimal at best, I tend to rely on the internet for creating my classes.

These are the sites I use regularly ( behind a cut to save my flist! )

I read 37 books last year. Aiming to reach 50 in 2011...

1. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of The Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe.
2. The Scar by China Mieville
3. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
4. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
5. The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester
6. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo ( Read more... )

1. Chart Throb by Ben Elton
2. The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
3. The Philosopher's Apprentice by James Morrow
4. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski ( Read more... )