This post is late, of course, because I should have posted a goals update on Boxing Day. It is early because I’m writing it in advance — both to catch up, and because this Thursday I shall be at a wedding.

Future data is of course missing, but I’ll include it in my next post instead 🙂

Based on the data so far, I:

• Got to Sleep at 2 AM on average, for about 7 hours and 13 minutes of sleep a night. This was better in the first fortnight, so I think New Years’ Eve celebrations may hold some of the blame.
• Worked on 12 things. Six each fortnight, mostly by twos:
  • A pair of scenes for my writing WIP.
  • A pair of poems.
  • A pair of budget-focused evenings.
  • A pair of tax ones — this would be basically done, but I discovered I’m missing a vital piece of paperwork.
  • Two sessions of work classifying my Magic: The Gathering collection, which I rarely play and therefore organise even more rarely.
  • And two unrelated things: some D&D prep, and my two annual Christmas cards (which I’m counting as one thing).
• Following the pattern, I finished two books (one per fortnight):
  • Inside Job, by Dr Rebecca Myers. This was a very heavy read: more than once, I had to stop reading and take a break, which is unusual for me. (Content warnings: sexual violence, children, and the intersection thereof.)
    But it is also very well written — Myers describes the details of the prison building and job very vividly (though she draws more of a veil over the heavy parts).
  • And Hard Eight, by Janet Evanovich, which was much less serious (though it is still a crime novel with life-and-death — or worse — stakes). This book got me thinking about the passiveness of many of my characters — while Evanovich’s protagonist doesn’t really accomplish much, she is nothing if not proactive.

No D&D last fortnight (Christmas) nor this one (moved to board games due to scheduling issues).