At the very beginning of 2021, I wrote a post about my goals for the year. Revisiting them in November enabled me to take pride in what I had accomplished during the year and begin thinking ahead to the new year. Which is now here!
We made it through another year of plague, friends. Hoping you and your loved ones are hale, hearty, and hanging in there. What do you hope the days ahead have in store?
Here are my goals for 2022--high but hopefully achievable. Let's see what I can do.
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As a blogger, I will...
- Write at least six posts about researching or teaching late antiquity and the Middle Ages.
- Post at least six translations of Latin texts (or excerpts thereof).
- Write at least one more post about medieval mitten miracles.
- Share at least one post on Facebook or LinkedIn...even though I rarely use social media and am uncomfortable with the idea.
- Continue to find and share contemporary poems about the late Roman period or late antiquity.
- Post at least four substantial translations of Latin texts, aiming for a range of periods, genres, authors, and topics.
- Produce at least twenty-six posts over the course of the year--aiming for two a month, or one every fortnight.
As a historian, I will...
- As I wrote last year, I want to be the kind of person who enjoys a colleague's article or book, hears
about their grant or job success, and always sends them a note of
congratulations.
- Submit a draft of my chapter on Annie Parker and her family to History of Universities by the end of January 2022.
- Submit revisions on my 'Epistolary Miracles in Late Antique Gaul' article by the end of February 2022.
- Submit a draft of my chapter on scale in the letters of Sidonius Apollinaris to the Shifting Frontiers volume by 4 March 2022
- Submit the following book reviews as close to on time as I can.
- a double review of translations of Fortunatus' Life of St Martin to Plekos.de by 1 April 2022
- a review of Latin Poetry and its Reception to Bryn Mawr Classical Review by the end of May 2022.
- a review of The Carolingian Revolution to Speculum by July 2022.
- Not commit to any more book reviews! Exceptions will be made if someone asks me to review a book on the Merovingians or Latin epistolography. Or poetry. Or something else I want to learn more about.
- Work on my modern languages! I want to read at least two substantial pieces of academic writing in French, German, and Italian over the course of the year, and practice regularly, using tools like Duolingo, children's books from the library, and maybe even a language class or two.
- Work on my Latin--once a week, I aim to translate at least three sentences of prose or poetry, as well as work through one grammar review book over the course of the year.
As a knitter and sewist, I will...
- Knit a ten-stitch blanket for myself...or possibly someone else. I love the pattern so much!
- Finish my mother's long overdue and patiently awaited birthday afghan.
- Make at least one square of a quilt or some other beginner project in order to get more comfortable using my sewing machine.
- Attempt to learn nålebinding and complete a small project using this technique.
- Make four pairs of socks.
- I struggle with lace and multi-colour work, so I aim to complete a small project using either technique.
- Cast on and knit at least one part of a sweater. Triple bonus points if it is a pattern by Alice Starmore.
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As a reader, I will...
- Read at least 52 books this year.
- Read at least three books on current affairs and issues, including at least one on anti-racist pedagogy.
- Read at least three history books written for a general audience.
- Go to the public library at least once a month.
- Finish reading Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolo series.
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- Read at least two books of essays.
As a runner, I will...
- Try to beat my current best parkrun time of 24:36, which I set in Oxford on 11 September 2021.
- Try to beat my current personal best 10k time of 49:24, set at the Run Your Heart out 10k in Scunthorpe on 23 February 2020.
- Do a core workout every Monday.
- Purchase new shoes from my local running store.
- Try at least one new thing. Ideas: adult ballet, anything in a gym, pilates, street dance, or speed workouts on a track.
- Enter and finish two half marathons.
- Do my best to finish a marathon sprinting, smiling, uninjured, and in less than four hours and fifteen minutes.
As a teacher, I will...
- Update my participation marks regularly, the evening after each class (or that weekend).
- Read at least one book on pedagogy and at least six blog posts on teaching in the university classroom.
- Post all my lecture slides before the lectures.
- Write a content notice for my class on Roman women and discuss it with my students.
- Go back to writing up quick notes for myself after each lecture, focusing on the traffic light system (i.e., make quick notes on what I will start, stop, and continue to do the next time I teach the material).
- Look for opportunities to learn from other teachers--by attending history teaching conferences, listening to podcasts, or observation opportunities.
- Learn all of my students' names, despite my embarrassment that I have to ask so many times.
As a writer, I will...
- Pitch at least one story to JSTOR Daily.
- Draft and submit least one new article--perhaps even on the mitten miracles I've been having such fun collecting! Possible destination: Piecework, my favourite magazine.
- Organise and/or participate in some sort of NaNoWriMo challenge, especially something for academic writing.
- Retell a fairy tale.
- Unearth my space opera retelling of the Histories of Gregory of Tours from whichever hard drive it is currently lurking on and mess around with it.
- Pitch an essay about time-traveling historians to Tor.com
- Hold Friendship in the Merovingian Kingdoms: Venantius Fortunatus and His Contemporaries in my own two hands.
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