Listing things to do with my time

Got a whole month of living at my parents house. Obviously I could spend this time catching up with all of my delightful friends from my childhood, but unfortunately there was a messy breakup, and I got the PS2 and he got the friends. So! Things I will spend my time doing:

Working in Co-op
Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate. I usually get through this by just pretending I'm somewhere else, and letting it happen to me. This actually generally results in me being perceived as a model employee; polite, efficient, not overly chatty but pleasant and quick.

Scanning family photos onto the computer
+uploading to facebook. Going to be awesome. My dad kind of just told me that I have to do this, and I'm scared he'll charge me rent if I don't, but I am looking forward to doing it. Real pictures! Babies!

Learning German
Using the Michel Thomas method. I've done two lessons a day so far, which amounts to about 15 minutes a day, but already I feel like a wealth of German knowledge. The plan is that next time I visit Georgina in Germany, I will be able to speak German well enough to at least communicate with the baby.

Learning to play the piano
Well, I haven't even managed to find the lead to plug in the keyboard yet, but give me time! I'm only one, very lazy, woman.

Writing a book
Gonna write a book. 3000 words a week for 30 weeks and there we'll have a book.  It won't be a very good book, but you need to get all of the bad words out of your system before you can start writing good ones.

Losing vast quantities of weight
MAYBE SOMEBODY WILL FINALLY LOVE ME.
But seriously, my health can't have enjoyed the ridiculous amount of pizza which I destroyed with my mouth over the past year. Time to rectify the shit out of that.

Finding a job
OH YEA.

Book

Starting planning a book. All good planning starts with the numbers. Been counting pages in books and decided that a good place to start with the numbers would be

15 chapters of 6500 words each or 30 chapters of 3000/3500 each 

Overall book, approx. 100,000 words, although will be less if I stick rigidly to the above.

I now have a title, chapter number and lengths, I guess the next stage will be planning the chapter titles.

This is how I write an essay, I can hardly say that it works for one medium of writing and not another. 

Foxes are Evil and Kill Babies

There were some lovely foxes in my garden. They were being more playful before this, but one of them seemed to get bored and hid under the bench.

People are soft

Misanthropy

Today I transcribed an entire one of my 15 diaries into a 25-page-long OpenOffice document.

It's wonderful to have it written down, and was interesting to see what I had written.

There were things in there that I'd forgotten about which it's been nice to remember and some bizarre stories. There were entries which were part story, half real and 70% lie and some things which I didn't want to transcribe, partly in case anyone ever read them, but mainly because I didn't really want to remember those things in the future, considering how little I enjoyed remembering them now.

I transcribed it all though, and I am never going to do it again.

I wish I'd done more before I decided this, because it's lovely having it all written out like that, but about half an hour after I'd finished I thought of something I wanted to write in my diary. I then thought, 'what's the point of writing it in my diary if I'm just going to transcribe my diaries then throw them away?' 'I might as well just write all of my thoughts into text documents in the first place!'.

What a sad state of affairs it would be if I stopped writing my thoughts onto paper! I find it so difficult to think in order if I don't write things down. So no more putting diaries onto the computer, I'll just have to find the space for the paper diaries, and find ways of making sure people never find them.

A dream I had.

There's supposed to be captions, but the formatting isn't working. Dreams are boring anyway.