January 1 is my favorite day of the year. It’s the day I anticipate all year long. Because on this day I add data points to my graphs and achieve absolute nirvana by contemplating them.
The graphs track how much I read each year and in what language, how many words I wrote, and how much time I dedicated to different activities. I started tracking my reading in 1997, so that graph has many data points. It’s not Big Data yet but it’s getting there.
You know how people say, “I don’t know where the time went”? Well, I do know. Down to the minute, I do.
And there you thought I had no hobbies.
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I just started tracking my reading with an app. Wish I’d started earlier. I’m excited to start my New Year’s Resolutions! They are to memorize one thing a month (poetry, etc.), read one work of “quality” fiction a month (I’m setting the bar low here), and to read the entire Bible. I also just joined a fun online book club that starts tomorrow so the second one should be taken care of by that.
This year was the first year ever I had a New Year’s Resolution, which was to read one book in French a month. I didn’t actually succeed towards the end, but I still consider it a success overall because I read much more than I would’ve otherwise (I also read more than 12 books in French overall so it balances out.)
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