New Years Retributions

My usual handful of New Year plans this round included more sleep, less internet, and another blog.
This blog was to contain updates of my productivity (of course I will surely, with more sleep and less internet, learn French, finish a novel, and maintain a household and 4.0) along with projects, poetry, and assorted opinions.

As usual, New Years resulted in a week of half-hearted attempts to introduce the idea, pushing papers and notebooks around my workspace, and the creeping malevolence of self-loathing with a side of guilt.

To combat this, to hell with form, and here’s the intro:

I’m blogging again. You can find my former Travel Blog at http://whereimat-shannonleigh.blogspot.ca/. It covers my seventeen week globe-trotting experience which prompted my complete 180° life change, where I now find myself:

1) Moved out of my family home
2) Co-authoring a book with a another local student
3) Working on an independent volume of poetry to be self-published hopefully by this time next year
4) Learning to speak a second language, and
5) Coming out of a change and stress induced fog that settled on me shortly after I arrived back in Canada.

These things will hopefully be expedited by my cutting down my use of casual internet to two hours a week. Online research is permitted at school and at the library, but web-comics and Facebook are sharply curtailed, and I have rid myself of the cursed Stumbleupon bar, probably gaining myself a few extra years of mental life in the process.

So, some of the categories you will be seeing here are Poetry, Things I Wish I’d Said
8-Tracking (Reviews and shout outs of various playlists from 8Tracks.com) and
General Brain Draining.

All these things are floating around, needing to be cataloged. Hence, Head Space.

There. Done.

Only eleven days late.