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I have trouble believing Thanksgiving is this week, at least for those of us in the United States. After that, we have the Christmas holidays and then the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010. I’m not even sure where the year has gone. Last time I turned around, it was summer. With the new year on the horizon, lots of people begin thinking about resolutions. Some people keep those. Most people I know have ditched them by midsummer.
Rather than making resolutions I generally don’t keep, I’ve decided to take stock of the past year and try to create a mindset, rather than a list of behaviors, for the coming one.
Continuing our habit of renting movies we missed when they first came out, we saw Duplicity on DVD. We enjoyed the plot twists and character interplay tremendously. Our hope for the rest of the year is to see a couple of first-run films and do better with DVD catchup, continuing that into 2010.
My nonfiction reading has suffered, as I’ve spent most of the time available for that on class prep of various kinds. I still hope to read my books on the Barbary Pirates, the World War I Battle of Belleau Wood, and the Thames River. But those will have to wait until the holiday break.
I did get to meet several authors whose books I’ve enjoyed this year, and I’ve found more new authors to follow and new series by authors I like. My goal for next year is to read at least one novel or nonfiction book a week in the (probaby vain) hope of whittling down the TBR pile. The fiction reading, alas, remains behind. I’m beginning to suspect it always may.
I’m trying to write a second volume in a series, using recurring characters for the same time, and that has been a bit of a challenge but fun. I have to think about the characters in new ways. I also have an idea for a new project. I want to turn out up my output of new material in 2010.
My eating and exercise habits haven’t been what I’d like, so I’m looking to improve those.
What are your benchmarks, good and bad, for 2009? What changes do you hope to make in 2010?
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Nancy 
I’m hoping I can actually do two novels for 2010. I did one novel and two novellas for 2009, only to get a bit of carpal tunnel, so I have to take care of that for the coming year. And I have a fun idea I want to work on, but I don’t have much experience in steampunk. At least I have new ideas!