I don't make resolutions, and don't tend to do much in the way of setting new goals at this time of year, but this year goal-setting seems to be striking more of a chord with me.

When I started thinking about a word/phrase for 2016, the first one that came to mind was "openness".
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(This turned into a long/sprawling entry, so let's play the "I'll bold the key sentences" game for people who want the gist. ^_^)

I'm not literally behind on everything; I'm not exactly behind on work, although I really want(ed) to be ahead, what with
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First off, and entirely unrelated to the rest of this post: I keep hearing good things about Jane the Virgin (new domestic show), despite its horrific title. Worth checking out, Y/N?After vaguely guessing how many manga series I'm collecting these days, I decided to go through and actually tally them up. It's slightly more than I was thinking, ( Read more... )

( putting a copy here so it's not only on bpal.org )

My manga-buying has tapered off noticeably over the past year or two, which I guess is no surprise. The fact that I'm so far behind on my reading means I'm essentially not reading anything I buy or discovering new series, so as series wrap up I haven't really been replacing them. (It also means that some titles that were coming out frequently have ( Read more... )

In the name of having a list to show
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Because it's come up a few times in the last several months, I'm just going to make a list of all of my Newsflesh fics that don't have plot spoilers for the trilogy. Most of them are set at least a year or two before the series begins; a couple technically take place early in Feed, fully or partly, but have no spoilers beyond the premise. Check the ( Read more... )

...because it's a "do today's check-in as a list!" day, and I always like those.

Minutes spent writing/pretending to write: 30 ( Read more... )

(This post is actually a not-so-cleverly disguised list so I can just copy it onto a post-it tomorrow and still be able to check back later ( Read more... )

(Husband, try not to look!)

Other than student loan payments and adding to my little heap of BPAL imps too often, this still seems to be where my money's going. La! Not counting anything I pick up because of work, my current manga list is something like:

Basara (2 volumes left to go)
Emma (1 volume left to go) Never mind, apparently it's still ( Read more... )