This year

While this blog is nominally about conlanging (hence the title) it is also my general purpose thoughts blog (hence the title). Conlanging is a lonely art, even when shared. Ultimately the only person to please is yourself or as Tolkien said "Here were no base considerations of the 'practical', the easiest for the 'modern mind', or for the million – only a question of taste, a satisfaction of a personal pleasure, a private sense of fitness." There's a power to that, to play only for yourself. That's the other purpose of this blog: to yell what I want to the world in a very public way, with the pleasure of knowing that despite this blog's open connection to my name (and presence on my facebook page!), no one will look.

Grad school leaves little time for conlanging (I tend to fill what little time I have with mindless video games) but I do think a lot. My commute leaves me upwards of an hour a day for that. I'd like to put more of those thoughts on paper (or on the internet as it is). So maybe I'll actually engage with this blog this year.

I have many goals this year. I'd like to move to dissertator status and maybe even have a good draft of a paper by the end of it. I'd like to actually travel for once (preferably on someone else's dime). I'd like to finish "Fishing for Birds". I'd like to cast off my pride (or at least some of it) and truly submit my will to my faith. I'd like to move forward in life instead of spinning my wheels and maybe confront my anxiety, my fear, my angst. I'd like to be a happy man.

 I'd also like to learn how to replace a drivetrain but that's because I broke my bike this week. So more of a short term goal.