goal for august and september: start using notebooks again. more specifically, start journaling again, something i haven’t done at all this year despite knowing it helps me; finishing my last journal would be nice but if starting with an empty notebook is more inspiring, i will do that.
i also need to find a planner and start organizing my life and days, which i have not needed to do for the past few years - each academic year i bought a planner and wasted it since i never used it - but i will need it this time, since i will live in a new city with more things to do and a need to plan things myself. besides, i think planning in depth my days and specifically my free time / any time where i do not have class might be what i need to start doing things, having specific times dedicated to studying, going outside, reading.
and another notebook for books, movies, media; i started one in january but only wrote down what i read until march, i need to go back and finish it. i want to at least make monthly lists, and, when i can, write down quotes and my thoughts for some of the books.
then, ideally, go back to using a sketchbook, drawing a little, just for fun. i have many sketchbooks with only a few pages used, and even if i don’t like going back to abandoned notebooks i need to do that instead of starting a new one that i might not finish either.
these are the most important things but there are other notebooks i would like to use. one to write new words and definitions. one to write down things i learn, quotes, things i want to remember, organized by theme maybe (what some have called a ‘commonplace notebook’ i think), i started one last year but i didn’t manage to incorporate it into my routine so i barely used it. and maybe a notebook dedicated to classics, for scholarship i read, conferences i go to, thesis planning. i already have a small notebook for poems i love, mostly filled with poems from friends for now.
i have so many notebooks that i never finished, and even more empty notebooks. an entire collection. and they’re so pretty! i want to use them. unfortunately i am terrible at that. and the fact that my hands hurt when i write does not help.
