Quick Update

[hils]

I said I was going to post a life update but there isn't actually much to report. We went back into the office full time in November and we lasted 3 weeks before the surge in cases had us being told to work from home again. Initially we were supposed to be going back next week but that's now been changed to working from home indefinitely. Sounds like it's going to be at least another couple of months before they talk about us going back.

I managed to make it up to my parents for Christmas which was nice. Spent most of the time playing board games with my dad and doing jigsaws with my mum. My sister came up for New Year after her pre-Christmas visit had to be cancelled because she and her partner both caught covid after a trip to New York. It was nice to have the whole family together though. It doesn't happen very often.

So, we're pretty much back to how things were this time last year. Just have to keep plodding on.

And slightly related Challenge 2 of snowflake_challenge is about goal setting and I need to keep myself busy so

Challenge #2

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

It's actually going to be pretty much the same as last year. I'm 3 days away from hitting my 1 year streak of learning Chinese on Duolingo. Starting to learn was my goal for last year so I want to carry on with it. I'm really pleased with the progress I've made. I'm at the point now where I can sometimes tell when subtitles for Chinese dramas and films aren't quite right and I always get excited when someone says something I can understand.

My other goal for this year is to carry on writing. I wrote 157K last year and I don't think I'll quite manage that this year. At the start of last year I threw myself into sundial_exchange and wrote several fics in the first two months of the year. I don't really have time or the energy to do so much but one of my small discord groups has suggested we try and post at least 1 fic per month which is more than achievable. Ideally I'd like to get over 100k again this year but I don't want to push myself to try and 'beat' last year's word count.

Comments

[clevermanka]

we're pretty much back to how things were this time last year
Yep. *plod*plod*

I'm glad your employer is letting you go back to wfh.

[hils]

Yeah, they've been pretty good throughout this whole thing

[tinny]

Yay, good luck for regular writing!

Also, a one year streak on Duolingo is incredible. O_O

[hils]

Thanks! To both things :D

[brokenhighways]

but one of my small discord groups has suggested we try and post at least 1 fic per month

This is always a good goal to aim for. And sometimes you end up writing more when you're not thinking about the word count.

And congratulations re: learning Chinese on Duolingo! How long you spend on it per week if you don't mind me asking?

[hils]

So sorry I didn't reply to this sooner.

I spend about 15-20 mins per day on it, so about 3 hours per week.