A new year always means new goals:
So the first one I had is the complete transfer of the content from my Livespace/Wordpress blog, which is now complete (hooray!). So, I guess I am enjoying that most of the sections are up-to-date, with several anime reviews still on the plate and more editing of previous PoE pieces. It will make it eventually, but I do not really have time now. Research is going alright, but there is much work to be done to put myself in a relatively stress-free position. To tell the truth, I don't think that position is available very much for the next five years or so. Oh well, life is like that.
Since it is already the first day of the new year, I have past the time to summarize a year worth of experience, or make a list of what were great or not so great in the year. It will be alright, usually I do not do that anyways.
But for a new year, what do I look forward to?
1) A new calendar. Of course that may not sound very impressive. In fact, it sounds very standard. Yes, but my last purchase of Tora no Ana's Touhou calendar actually made me read the date on a paper format once in a while. So I asked my dear friend Andy Wang to bring one back this year. It seems to be high school themed, and I will be expecting a lot of school uniform Sanae. Although my favorite character is still Yukari, but Sanae fanarts are not bad.
2) A new 320 GB hard drive for my ThinkPad. Actually, that is out of necessity and I am cursing Lenovo to not ship any time faster.
3) Research!! When it works, you will feel all better. Right now it is still a foxhole under artillery zone.
4) Fried Chicken. I decided that sometime this year, I will have a good meal consisted of fried chicken from Coastal Cafe 20 minutes from where I live.
5) Everything else school related. Productivity is good.
6) Oh just a bunch of anime things: Summer Wars in the big screen, Star Drivers OST, the next Type-Moon VN, saving enough money to buy Kara no Kyoukai, Tsukihime manga, Mahou Sensei Negima manga, Kami Yomi manga, and Macross Frontier getting licensed (which is not going to happen in the foreseeable future). Also, Part II from Secret Santa.
7) Gaming.
Well, Ph.D. will be hard and stressful, but no as impossible as beating Perfect Cherry Blossom without a continue. So I guess I will be alright.
