year in review

Because I haven’t finished my full-fledged year-in-review post, here is that meme that’s floating about the tubes: take the first line of the first entry from each month for the last year.

January
The party last night was a success.

February
I am so frustrated with my computer right now.

March
How it begins: someone sends a fascinating email or an interesting voicemail.

April
The yay: Making it through an all-day offsite meeting and somehow giving a presentation in front of what felt like eleventy billion people but was in all probability only 40 or so.

May
I am settling into being mediocre, between genres, unfinished, and not a genius.

June
Usually it either takes hours or moments for me to write something here.

July
If you are unsure, holding a hand —
if you would take a hand into your hand
and not be sure — do not take the hand.

August
It could have been anything.
Any arrangement of words said or sent
could have done it.

September
I owe just about everyone I know an email or three, my project at work is at a fever pitch, and I’m recovering from a horrible two months physically just to hit Mercury in retrograde.

October
She sets the mug on the coaster.

November
Since I don’t have the time to do NaNoWriMo this year — but I’m happily supporting those of you who do — I thought I’d try to post a journal entry every day of November.

December
My year-long work project launched on Thursday-then-Friday.

About Halsted M. Bernard

Halsted, a/k/a cygnoir, does stuff with words. Her favourite things to do with words are keeping this diary, writing stories, and organising information. She lives in Edinburgh with her husband, two cats, a few gadgets, several fountain pens, and many books.

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