Things I'd like to do this year:

[tanaise]

• Riding lessons. Rock Creek Park offers lessons, including, on the intermediate level, *dressage*!
  
  
• Learn to knit. I can knit, I think, I just can't cast on stitches
  
  
• Sell pro. Preferably repeatedly. This of course, requires that I finish up stories, polish them thoroughly, and send them out.
  
  
• Finish cross stitch designs I've already started. Start new ones.
  
  
• Learn to crochet. Again, my main problem is casting on, though at least with crocheting, I can cheat and fingerknit a strip, and work off of that. My problem is that basic stitches bore me, but until I master them (and turning) I can't work on anything more complicated.
  
  
• Redesign webpage. I've got a new submissions page gleefully stolen from a friend, now I just need to shop around till I find the base page I want to use, and revamp everything appropriately. I'll probably ponder actually getting a domain name as well. Crazymonkeyloveslave is still open. So's hotfishsex. If TOS(aka Salt) sells to Asimov's, I'll consider it. :)
  
  
• Leave DC. Maybe to Boston, if the bitchwhores move up there as well. Maybe to State College, if I panic at the idea of being in Boston by myself.
  
  
• Apply for Grad school. This means finding professors that teach what I want to study, taking the GREs, applying places, getting stellar letters of recommendation from everyone I know to make up for less than stellar grades in college.
  
  
• WorldCon in Toronto, Readercon in Boston, and WFC in DC. Of them, WFC I'm most sure I can do, as I'll have crashspace here, and it's not that expensive to get here, even if I move to Boston ($120 round trip plane), Readercon is second, especially if I move there, and then WorldCon. Which I *really* want to do, but if I move, will I be able to afford it? Selling pro would really help this.
  
  
• Learn to drive. Yes, despite 10 years of no interest in it, and for that matter, continued no interest, it would just make some things so much easier. Which probably means I'll be part of the whole car culture, with payments and insurance and gas and all. Well, not payments. I'll wheedle the Silver Bullet (1986 Volvo sedan) out of my dad's paws for cash.
  

There. I think those are enough things to work on for now.

Comments

[ariadnesthread.livejournal.com]

I knit and crochet, so just let me know if you want me to attempt to teach you or to help you remember/figure out what to do. I also know a couple of nice stores in the area and could take you some time. There's a knitting/crocheting group that meets at Teasim (the Penn Quarter one, I believe); if you're interested in it, I can dig up the info (I'm in two guilds in Virginia).

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm told there's a forensic class being offered at the Smithsonian this winter. I thought you'd be interested in that.

Re:

[ariadnesthread.livejournal.com]

Neat! I just got the new Resident Associate course listing magazine yesterday, and I haven't had a chance to go through it yet. I'll have to look for that one. Thanks for the heads up. :-)

[tikimama.livejournal.com]

Dressage is for uptight anal german types. Hunter-Jumper! Mad jumping and beating the clock! Mud and flying hooves and imminent death!

Unless you can find a place with vaulting. That's awesome, though my body isn't as lithesome as it used to be. Might be harder to get a leg up.

[piratejenny.livejournal.com]

I thought she was an uptight anal German type.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

No, no, that's just what I look for in a guy.

[(Anonymous)]

Pshaw. Jumpers is just dressage with stuff in the way!

What you really wanna do is event, Celia. Or what I really want to do is event. This week, anyway. What you want to do is come turn this cornfield into a cross-country course.

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

Chris and I are planning a move to Providence RI. About an hour from Boston. Now we just have to persuade Jenny to move north as well!

[piratejenny.livejournal.com]

Ummno. I have no desire to move north. I have no desire to live in Boston, nice as it may be. New York is the city for me. T and I are Jersey born and bred--we like it there. And I certainly have no desire to change jobs after the time I've put in here, not to mention the fact that my job is great, the company's more or less great, and my boss and co-workers rock (plus I think they'd die without me, judging by today).

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

You shall simply have to visit then. And we shall visit in return! It's not *that* far!

So who else is looking at a Northward move?

[cissa.livejournal.com]

*Ears prick* Readercon? In Boston? Details appreciated- mabe I'll finally get to a con!

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

http://www.readercon.org/

It's a reader oriented con, and there's apparently a lot of intermingling between fans and authors. I was at Clarion this year, or I would have gone to it.

[trouvera.livejournal.com]

ahem, what am I, chopped liver?? I mean, I know I"m not one of the exaulted bitchwhores and all, and I don't talk with space weasels, but my roommate has a cute dog, and sometimes street lights go on and off when I walk under them...

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

You're slightly above chopped liver. More like ground round.