Meme: Post the first line of your first journal entry of each month for 2007. I don’t write regularly enough in my paper journal for this, so I’ll use this blog. Via No Feeling of Falling (the blog of Maureen McHugh, author of China Mountain Zhang. I think Maureen looked over her blog too.)
December: While tidying my study, I found, and started reading, a library book I’d forgotten I’d borrowed: The Top Ten: Writers pick their favorite books, edited by J. Peder Zane.
November: Have just closed off comments and trackbacks – seem to be getting a lot of spam at the moment.
October: Recently read A long way gone by Ishmael Beah.
September: Am still trying to write up Stephen Abram’s talk, which I attended on Friday.
August: Bloggers, care to share with me the reasons you blog?
July: I’m still pondering/processing Barcamp.
June: If you are interested in this whole Web/Library 2.0 malarkey and would like to have coffee with a bunch of us, come on down to the XWray in Fremantle at 3-13 Essex Street, tomorrow (Saturday 2 June) at 3pm.
May: I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to name another blog in this list this morning (we had a late night – puppy school then a birthday party) but it’s easy: blog number two out of five blogs that make me think is No Impact Man.
April: A terribly busy weekend, with two birthday celebrations and much running around after Paco.
March: I had the task of looking through a couple of boxes of books donated to the library yesterday.
February: My grandmother is still in hospital. [The worst month.]
January: I did this last year – it satisfies my enjoyment of making lists.
Nice way of looking over the year. I seem to have told myself that I haven’t done or achieved much this year. I think it’s time to let up on myself, somehow…
What’s your year been like?
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I was going to take a break from the blog over the hols. But I might make an exception for this meme, it’s easily the best I’ve seen so far. (Taking me away from the middle-aged lady one that’s doing the rounds, too. That has to be a good thing!)
I am not quite sure what my year’s been like, CW – a year of development in some ways. A daughter moved out, I spent a lot of time doing independent study so I could be a better ‘critic’ if I ever try to be one again!, I took a week off by myself (the only time in my life I’ve been away by myself, I think.) I applied for several part-time jobs and didn’t get them, but got nice pats on the back and encouragement. I came up with ideas of what to do in the meantime, I planned a ‘writing’ life and found it didn’t look as scary as I thought it might be. I went to book launches (that had its scary moments.)
Certainly quite a fruitful year, though I think some of the fruits are yet to come.
And thank you (whoops) for the opportunity to reflect on it here. Much appreciated.
Nice to hear from you, as always, Genevieve! Happy New Year!
What a neat idea! I guess since I’ve only been blogging since September or so, mine would be much shorter, lol!
BTW – I learned about this blog from the Librarians Matter blog. Glad to have found it!
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you, too, Constance – I have blogged this, it’s loaded to come up on Boxing Day (because I’m sick of cleaning the house, but not many people seem to be reading the blog this week.)
But I did it round the other way, just to be pernickety. Not sure it makes any difference now I look at it though.