On my birthday I decided to do one new thing (or revisit one thing I enjoyed but haven’t done in a while) for each of my 38 years. (Original Post Here).
Here is an update on some of the items I have done:
- See Welcome to NightVale live show (4/3 – it was awesome, and the actor for Carlos –adorable.)
Items I have made progress on:
- Find a way to support, advocate the LGBT community
- Helped PFLAG secretary create LGBT+ term bingo for upcoming PFLAG meeting
- Spoke with on-campus LGBT affairs rep on how to get involved
- Learn how to knit ; knit something
- Learned how to purl and close off a project; used an entire skein of yarn making one long not-quite scarf
- Submit at least 1 short story a month
- Found a potential new market for my one circulating story
- Complete a 2nd draft of a novel
- Printed outlines of the two current contender stories to evaluate which I will work on
- Learn how to play Magic
- Played several games of open-handed magic with my premade/ purchased deck
- Bought a deck-builders kit for 2015 Core, sorted the cards
- Build my own deck – played two open handed games with it – one loss, one win
- Swim with Dolphins
- Going on the Out of Excuses writing retreat cruise in September – checked shore excursions, confirmed dolphin swimming is an option
- Read 38 books
- Books read to date in 2015 (as tracked in Goodreads)
- The Winter Long – Seanan McGuire
- Celebromancy – Michael R. Underwood
- Anna Dressed in Blood – Kendare Blake
- Sparrow Hill Road – Seanan McGuire
- The Eighth Guardian – Meredith McCardle
- The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win your Inner Creative Battles – Steven Pressfield
- Invisible – Jim. C. Hines
- The Brief History of the Dead – Kevin Brockeier
- Writing the Other – Nisi Shawl & Cynthia Ward
- Curtsies & Conspiracies – Gail Carriger
- Lock In – John Scalzi
