January Check-In

I've decided, in order to hold myself accountable for my New Year's goals for once, to post monthly check-ins on how things are going.

Writing
Word count: 7,530
My goal for writing isn't any particular word count, but just to keep track of how much I write each day. I did okay with that this month, there may be some short days that I forgot to record. I didn't do a lot of writing, mostly because of revisions, but I did count revised scenes that were new or almost entirely rewritten.

Reading
Read: 3
I'm hoping to step this number up quickly as the year goes on. Only two of them were published: House of Hades by Rick Riordan, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. My favorite of the month was hands-down House of Hades.

Running
Miles: 0
My intention was to take advantage of my mornings off three days a week and take some time on the treadmill. Unfortunately for that within the first week I made a commitment to work in a grad student's lab during those mornings.

Movies
Watched: 1
This isn't technically true but all the other movies I watched this month were rewatches so I'm not counting those. My roommates and I watched Madeline, which is a very cute classic and I'm not sure how I haven't seen it before.

Things I've Never Done: 
I started throwing this into my to do list last year in the hopes that I could keep trying new things and so far it seems to be working. My list is now up to one with "Running lab trials alone."

Comments

Colin Smith said…
That's not a bad word count for the month, given everything else you've got going on, Rachael. Well done!

I set myself a goal to read between 40-50 books a year, but this year I want to get in more long books, and classics that take a bit more time to chew through, so I'm not pushing myself too much on that for 2014.

A good start to the year--may it only get better for you! :)
January 31, 2014 at 7:24 PM
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