Ruminations

Look, no hands!

Originally uploaded by Constance Wiebrands.

M’s been working on a website he’s called Perth Unicycle Group. The idea is to provide a forum for Perth people who ride unicycles - and to get together and ride around the place. So if you ride, live in Perth, Western Australia, or surrounding areas, and would love to ride with a bunch of unicyclists, go check out the Perth Unicycle Group!

One good thing about making a list of things you’d like to do, is that when you look at this list at a later date it jogs your memory.

I’ve been pondering my (long-ignored) list on 43 things and realising that a couple of years ago, writing, and improving my writing, was a priority for me. If I remember correctly, when I started this blog back in 2005, one of my vague goals was to get myself to write, and to “write more”. Blogging almost daily has definitely helped with this! I used to have a really hard time whenever I had to write a report or anything else for work - I’m happy to report that this is no longer the case.

Improving my writing is still on the 43 things list, and I think I will leave it there for the time being. Can one ever stop improving, after all?

With writing, I think I need to have more specific goals, now. I’ve submitted a couple of abstracts for a forthcoming conference, and am pondering working on another with a colleague, but perhaps it’s time to think of different forums - perhaps an academic journal is the next goal. In fact after the conference last year a couple of journal editors approached me to see if I was interested in reworking my papers for publication in their journals, but what with one thing after another I never got around to it.

Another goal I had on the list was to “learn another language”. Well we’re doing that at the moment by attending weekly Dutch lessons. I’m really enjoying these classes.

Ik heb, jij hebt, u hebt/u heeft, hij heeft, zij heeft, wij hebben, jullie hebben…

(I am already pondering the next level of lessons… )

What are your goals?