September Goals

So my August Goals post worked out well. I completed all the goals. Which surprises me a bit even though I was trying to make the goals very manageable. I still find goal setting a lit fraught. I worry that I'm setting goals that are too big or too little, and when I publicly state my goals I worry that other people are judging me for the amount of work I'm doing. Still I'm going to publicly set myself some more goal for this month, because it did work out well last month.

This month we are settling into the new preschool routine which means I should have bit more time to myself, but right now I'm still getting used to everything. Also R was away for labor day weekend and will also be traveling to visit friends latter this month, so that will effect what I can get done. (Some how this year all my trip where in the beginning of the year and all Rs are in the second half. I wouldn't mind going on another trip but it seems like so much work to plan one.)

On to this months goals:

1) Read five pieces of short SFF online and finish reading Hexarchate Stories. This worked out ok last month. Its a small amount compared to how much short SFF I've read in the past but seems sustainable for now.

2)Research starting a cosy SFF zine. I complained on twitter about how un-fluffy most original short SFF is and that somehow lead to the idea that we should get together and start a cosy SFF zine. My first reactions was that's way too much work -- but its something that I'd love to have exist so I let a friend convince me to at least find out how much work it would be before deciding not to do it. (Another possibility might be to approach and existing zine and ask to do a special issue -- so I need to look into that too.)

3)Brain storm 5 nature/built enviroment topics that I could write about. I love talking and thinking about nature and the build enviroment. Yet some how I'm deeply intimated by writing about these topics. I feel like I'll never know enough. Probably the solution is to make things more personal, but that's hard too. Anyways, I want to set aside some time to brainstorm how approach that type of writing more.

4)Host a Dire Panda themed Guardian event. I've been thinking about this for a while am even have something drafted so I should be launching this soon!

5)Sew a shirt for the kid, and pick a pattern to use for the fabric she wants me to make a dress out of. I don't want it to get to winter and find that I haven't made the kid at least one new thing to wear!