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2024 Goals: Life, the Universe, and Everything
I am not really doing the Snowflake Challenge (or am I?), but I do like the idea of setting 2024 goals. In no particular order:
1. I turn 40 in April, and I have one stated goal for this: to be able to deadlift 100 lbs. I am well on my way -- I started working with a personal trainer on strength training about 15 months ago, and as of today, I can deadlift 75 lbs. Onward!
2. I have only one proper resolution for the year, which is to suck less at work lunch. Once upon a time, I used to bring my lunch to the office like four days a week. Since returning to the office 3+ days a week, I have landed on a lackluster diet of chicken fingers, grocery store sushi, and frozen meals, and it's honestly sort of gross. My progress against this right now is to...buy a prepared meal service to provide about one meal a day. It feels like giving in to, I don't know, being the overworked, single, middle-aged product of corporate America that I am, but on the other hand, it isn't chicken fingers. A week in, I am cautiously optimistic.
3. At work, I have a *really* big project to deliver. And we're gonna do it, and it's gonna be great.
4. I don't set reading goals, because I have flashbacks to getting in trouble for not reading enough when I was a teenager. But I do want to read books I enjoy, and do so with intention. I would love recommendations--the books I loved most in 2023 were "A Memory Called Empire," by Arkady Martine, and "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow," by Gabrielle Zevin, but I appreciate recommendations across genre with the key exception that I refuse to read books with fake maps.
5. Writing! ICYMI, I wrote *one* whole story in 2023, a Star Trek: Strange New Worlds story I am immensely proud of. the wheel of the headlong year is Marie Batel in the aftermath of "Hegemony." It's a story of grief, and trauma, and loss, and love. It took me five months.
So my writing goal is...write. Not write more, if there isn't more. But to write what I can, when I can, with as much love and attention and care as I brought to this story. Because writing with love--not for obligation, not for kudos, not for anything other than the joy of it--is the best thing ever.
6. I want to do a better job commenting on stories this year.
7. I want to post here more. Perhaps a goal of once a month! (And look, January is done!) And with that, I would like to connect more with people here -- I have wonderful Tumblr and Discord communities especially, but I miss the slower and more thoughtful pace of the old ways.
8. I turn 40 this year. I want to rest well, and enjoy the small things, and slow down sometimes. I want to snuggle the cat and hug my friends. I want to see new places and revel in the old ones. I want to enjoy my aging, challenging, wonderful parents. I want to thrive.
1. I turn 40 in April, and I have one stated goal for this: to be able to deadlift 100 lbs. I am well on my way -- I started working with a personal trainer on strength training about 15 months ago, and as of today, I can deadlift 75 lbs. Onward!
2. I have only one proper resolution for the year, which is to suck less at work lunch. Once upon a time, I used to bring my lunch to the office like four days a week. Since returning to the office 3+ days a week, I have landed on a lackluster diet of chicken fingers, grocery store sushi, and frozen meals, and it's honestly sort of gross. My progress against this right now is to...buy a prepared meal service to provide about one meal a day. It feels like giving in to, I don't know, being the overworked, single, middle-aged product of corporate America that I am, but on the other hand, it isn't chicken fingers. A week in, I am cautiously optimistic.
3. At work, I have a *really* big project to deliver. And we're gonna do it, and it's gonna be great.
4. I don't set reading goals, because I have flashbacks to getting in trouble for not reading enough when I was a teenager. But I do want to read books I enjoy, and do so with intention. I would love recommendations--the books I loved most in 2023 were "A Memory Called Empire," by Arkady Martine, and "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow," by Gabrielle Zevin, but I appreciate recommendations across genre with the key exception that I refuse to read books with fake maps.
5. Writing! ICYMI, I wrote *one* whole story in 2023, a Star Trek: Strange New Worlds story I am immensely proud of. the wheel of the headlong year is Marie Batel in the aftermath of "Hegemony." It's a story of grief, and trauma, and loss, and love. It took me five months.
So my writing goal is...write. Not write more, if there isn't more. But to write what I can, when I can, with as much love and attention and care as I brought to this story. Because writing with love--not for obligation, not for kudos, not for anything other than the joy of it--is the best thing ever.
6. I want to do a better job commenting on stories this year.
7. I want to post here more. Perhaps a goal of once a month! (And look, January is done!) And with that, I would like to connect more with people here -- I have wonderful Tumblr and Discord communities especially, but I miss the slower and more thoughtful pace of the old ways.
8. I turn 40 this year. I want to rest well, and enjoy the small things, and slow down sometimes. I want to snuggle the cat and hug my friends. I want to see new places and revel in the old ones. I want to enjoy my aging, challenging, wonderful parents. I want to thrive.
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The NCC 1701 series by Account5738525 (https://archiveofourown.org/series/2932605) is a long slow burn neurodivergent Chapel/ace La’an series. Some bits are a bit drawn out and wandery and maybe could have used a beta for clarity at some points, but I enjoyed the compliment of OC’s almost as much as some of the settings and descriptions in this one.
Trekkerverse series (https://archiveofourown.org/series/2978370) by Alsike, starting with part 2 made me love T’Pring more than I thought possible. I didn’t read the La’an/Una stories in the series though (just not a pairing I’m interested in)
Summary:
Dr Christine Chapel always figured that T'Pring was a Vulcan's Vulcan, and never expected to find her here, on Betazed, living a very different life than she'd had before. But, no one gets out of a relationship with Spock unscathed. And sometimes the ways you tried to change yourself to keep him end up showing you who you want to be.
There were a couple more I enjoyed enough to rec, but I seemed to have failed to bookmark them and I’m afraid of the rabbit hole I’ll fall down if I skim through the SNW tag tonight. Lol.
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And you’re right about the rarepair thing for sure. I love how varied the shipping in the fandom is, but I also am both amused and a little sad that my pairing of choice has 39 stories (not all of which actually count!). It’s canon! And yet… :D