MaW’s Blog

It’s quite the fashion to post a brief or not-so-brief overview of 2005 on blogs at the moment. An arbitrary dividing line between years might not be the most sensible of things to have, but since it’s loosely related to midwinter, it might be of some minor celestial significance.

The television coverage from London last night shows that even if it didn’t have such significance, we’d give it all the necessary significance ourselves. New Year is probably better than Christmas, I would say, but I won’t go into the reasons here because that’s mostly just an ill-defined opinion that I have little real justification for at the present time.

So to my retrospective on 2005. What did I do? Well, I:

• started a PhD
• started playing the recorder again (and got a teacher)
• won my third National Novel Writing Month
• met some brilliant people
• went to GUADEC
• missed a number of social engagements due to apathy and/or schedule conflicts

There’s probably more than that, but that’s what stands out. Next year I hope to:

• visit Germany (again) and the south of France
• do an ABRSM exam for the recorder (and pass, but preferably something a bit higher than grade one)
• play the recorder in a concert where I don’t finish a piece a beat ahead of everyone else and where the harpsichord doesn’t go wrong halfway through
• make my own lunches instead of buying them, thus saving lots of money
• join the Special Constabulary (not going to happen, just like last year)
• get some accomodation I don’t hate

Hmm. How dull.