Checking in on my 2025 intentions, about a week and a half into the second month of the year:
- despite some unseasonably warm weather these past few days, it’s not consistently warm enough for me to be willing to get back on my bike
- I am very slowly working on kitchen skills (and most of my progress is mental reframing, not actual skills), but I’m working on it!
- continuing to use some of my paper notebooks and it feel very nice to open each one for their assigned things
- A friend and I have texted about setting up working time! We may be starting this coming week!
- on the “reading more of my physical books” page (haha): luxuriating in my copy (a gift from my family a few years ago) of the Charles Vess-illustrated omnibus compendium of the Earthsea Cycle by Le Guin and planning to return to Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything once I’ve finished my tour of Aran via Tim Robinson
- just trying to take the dissertation prospectus work a day at a time
- another ongoing part of this is doing my best to reframe my “exams” as simply a formal check-in on my progress toward the prospectus proper