runnerland

They’re childish and random and external, and we shouldn’t heed them, right? Set ourselves all the goals we like, but who cares whether it’s January 1 or July 29, right?

Except it’s handy once a year (at least) to have enough time to take interior inventory - like, the store’s closed one day a year for shelf-counting and tidying, and the shop is you.

So, what have I come up with as I sweep the aisles and survey the detritus within? Well, changes already afoot for 2008, so there’s that. Change = good.

Really, just to be more me. Which, resolutionwise, means more time cooking, more time writing (fiction), less time obesssing about work, maybe similar time at the gym, other private stuff not suitable for a blog.

And how’s it going so far? Made two recipes from Xmas present How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: griddlecakes make with oatmeal, and braised tofu with peas in curried coconut milk. Tofu v. delicious, griddlecakes bland (intentionally, for the ungrateful kids who didn’t eat them anyway) but excellent w/ the aforementioned tofu.

Writing? Lots of thinking these days about structure, and intertwining narratives.

Words to live by in 2008: