These were the resolutions from two years ago and honestly, not much has changed about what I want to improve. So another performance review-
Stress has been the defining state of being this year. The tail end of third year was a mess, deciding what to do after wasn’t too easy, I had a great few months off and starting the new degree, and now it’s back again. I want to keep it under control, but I suspect I’ve bitten off more than I can chew with doing BYP again, and this degree, and trying to soon be employed. We’ll see.
Water has been up and down, got better and got worse again. Now getting better again. I sometimes put dhatri (from Janaki Aunty) in the water jug now, it makes me feel earthy and homely, even though it’s never something we’d do at home.
Budgeting has been good, I think. Obviously that’s barring the cost of the degree. Finally having a kitchen and being able to control my food expenditure + not needing to eat lunch in central London has been great. Travel is now my biggest cost, but also all over the deals/savings/railcard things.
Flatmates being vegetarian has improved my diet tremendously. Have been out of Cambridge most of December and eating ridiculous amounts and don’t think I’ve had a single fruit, but back tomorrow and it’ll all fall back into place.
Summer was once again good for reading, though it was mostly Agatha Christie’s with Ammoomma. I’m giving the HP audiobooks a first try, so maybe if this works out I’ll get some more fiction going. Although I’m finding that listening is much slower than reading. Or maybe that’s just because of how well I know the HP books. Tbc.
BYP is helping, again, but one of my goals this time was to write and edit more outside sessions. That’s not happening so much. Lots and lots of room for improvement.
Pokemon Go has meant I’m walking a lot more than I need to, particularly now that my commute is 6-8 min rather than 25-30.
I am reading better for the degree, but still nowhere close to where I should be.
Get published has been the success of the year, I think. The two articles in HARF, the LSE blog, the BYP anthology (and upcoming anthology), the Notes Cambridge journal, Dear Damsel’s blog and annual magazine, and the Cosmo Prize. There we go, I feel a little better about the resolutions from two years ago now.
This daughter-granddaughter thing has been bothering me the past few weeks. Not a lot has changed. I am calling less, but Ammoomma and I are having better conversations, I sent (what I thought was) a really nice new year and birthday card for her. I’m not sure about anything else really.
So most of the resolutions remain- write more, read more, be healthier. It was my third NYE/NY with Georgia though, which was lovely.
A resolution to spend more time keeping up and catching up with her and Kitty. I don’t want my stress to continually affect my friends, so to plan and manage time well enough that I am better able to compartmentalise. To tackle the future head on, whatever next year has in store. To watch less TV/online TV because I never watch real TV anymore, but I’d like to go back to when reading was what kept me from working. To be kinder, to be as supportive as I can be, to be less judgemental.
