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Healing comes so painfully
And it chills to the bone
Will anyone get close to me?
I'm damaged, as I'm sure you know

Plumb, Damaged

New Years....

My resolution?

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Plans for the year...

I could make plans at any time, but starting the new year is psychologically convenient. These are not resolutions. I already posted on that :-P (to be clear, that post was not an original from-my-brain idea.)

So...plans for the year include...

1. Getting evaluated for LASIK surgery.
2. Assuming eligibility for #1, having said surgery.
3. My hopes to make a trip to Greece this year will be hindered by #1. However, I will work on saving money in hopes to go in 2009.
4. Continue to work on the book of hymns to the gods.
5. Figure out a way to get these stories in my head written down in a way that decently conveys what I'm actually thinking.
6. Read more fiction...I think I got all of three novels in last year. No, four...Kushiel's Justice, Glory Road, Priestess of the White and Time Enough For Love (finally.) Oh, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Okay, five. I'd like to try and read at least one novel/month which aside from fitting it in among everything else I need to read, should not be difficult.

Two books that I definitely want to read:
The High king's Tomb
Kushiel's Mercy (out in June. Cover art is out now...it's pretty of course. Available for pre-order... http://www.amazon.com/Kushiels-Mercy-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/0446500046/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=generic&qid=1199327469&sr=1-1)

7. Move outta da ghetto ASAP. nuff said.
8. Harass Gavin (I sorta took an oath during the sumbel on Saturday night to do this. If I don't make good on my oath, it will have massively horrible implications for everyone who was present *nods*
9. Work on the CTP...which includes plans to read the following books (these books may be substituted with other books suggested/required by the CTP but these are the ones I so far plan to read):

Walden, Or life On The Pond by Thoreau (in progress)
In Search Of the Indo-Europeans by JP Mallory
How to Think About Weird Things, Critical Thinking For The New Age
Rites Of Worship by Isaac Bonewits (reread actually.)
The Druids by Stuart Piggot
Triumph Of The Moon by Ronald Hutton
Comparative Mythology by Jaan Puhvel
Early Greek Myth by Timothy Gantz (Kerenyi's Gods of the Greeks is on the list, but I've been through that one so many times, I'm gonna pick up another instead of rereading)
The Mabinogion (Not on the list per se, but it's mythology. and I've been wanting to red more Welsh stuff. so I'm gonna read it. Can't hurt, right?)
Vestal Fire by SJ Pyne
Raidho: A Runic Journey by Jennifer Smith
Arcana Mundi by George Luck (hey chironcentaur have you seen this one kicking aournd the house lately? I don't remember if I stashed it in my room or left it somewhere in the living room or...who knows...)


There are other books that I want to read of related subject matter mostly of a Hellenic slant. I will need to gather and compile a more thorough list.

10. Continue to do more Hellenic rituals.
11. Follow this blasted religion thing...wherever the gods may lead...

As sub-plans to #9, I intend to become more generally conversant in other mythologies, and work more intently in divination practice with runes and with the Greek alphabet oracle.