Expectations

[Aside: I've never been a fan of overly dramatic and weirdly construed and obscure titles for stuff, anything. In particular I absolutely detest third-person titles of vlogs, i.e. "X does Y," where Y is probably referring to an action or something done by the vlogger in question, X--this gets old and repetitive ever so quickly. But who am I to judge, maybe people actually like it. But for me, I like to stick to plain, to-the-point titles wherever possible, maybe being a bit creatively witty occasionally when needed.]

In no greatly particular order, this year [bold denotes importance] I want to:

• Go to LeakyCon 2011
• Read fifty books, or complete "works" of a respectable length
• Spend a good chunk of time actively being social
• Tutor/volunteer at 826 Boston
• Write a novel
• Write several short stories[1]
• Learn stuff
• Keep at least a respectable A- avg.[2]
• Volunteer more!
• Find a place to stay during the summer
• Find places to stay during spring and fall breaks...
• Get okay-good at guitar playing
• Beat qwop
• See The Mountain Goats and other good bands several times...
• Gain absolute political and economic control over a small Pacific country
• Other stuff....................

Yeah. Okay it may not be much or interesting... but William the Conqueror didn't decide to invade England now did he? Well he probably did. But most things don't call for this early a prediction. Perhaps in three hundred sixty-three days I can compare how awesome[4] my year turned out to be.

Short post, but I'm tired, and also I feel a compulsion to write/post these things between when y'all (most of you being in America[3]) are in a woken up state to read things, and when it's tomorrow here, which means like evening-midnight. So I'll probably spend more time contemplating/writing in advance.

Or something.

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1. I have this idea for a series of short stories called That Are Not People which ideas I'm really fascinated in, and I want to get on that right away.
2. Not to boast well kind of to boast but mostly in remark: this shouldn't be hard considering I'm probably guaranteed two A's, one likely A in English, but godknowswhat in Latin. And no, grade point averages don't mean a great deal to me, except in evaluating my work and effort, and most importantly, lording it over equally pretentious minds.
3. Ah, such are the woes of democracy and majority rule.
4. I can't stop myself from hearing in my head the word awesome in Johη Darηielle's voice.[5]
5. Yes, [3] & [4] are in counter-intuitive positions. You can see my thinking order. Can't you wait until I run out of clever little tricks and literary stuff so I'm just writing plain understandable and clear entries?