{"id":395,"date":"2018-01-01T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2017-12-31T20:55:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T04:55:22","slug":"hello-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Hello, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2017 was a very full year. It seemed like I had something going on every weekend, which is not my normal way of living, but it worked out. We have my work-from-home job to thank for this. Had I not had the weekdays as my private downtime, I would have surely collapsed by now. I expect 2018 will be similar. I am living my fullest, and in some ways most surprising life. Why stop now? With that, here are some goals on my mind as I start the new year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spanish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I started a &#8220;10-year&#8221; plan in 2015, which makes 2018 the third year, or as I usually put it, this is now the eight-year plan. The point of the plan is to become fluent in Spanish and start doing a job that I feel passionate about that involves the language. The biggest goal I have this year taking the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dele.org\/\">DELE C1<\/a> exam. Passing this exam certifies that I have professional proficiency in the language. That means this year I&#8217;m going to try to take in lots of vocabulary, read a lot, and work on expressing myself more precisely and with a wider range of vocabulary.\u00a0 These are some of my plans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Continue weekly lessons with my Spanish tutor. In the spring, I started working with a tutor via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livelingua.com\/\">Live Lingua<\/a>, and she has helped me a lot in getting better at expressing myself.<\/li>\n<li>Increase vocabulary by about 100 words per week. I take a lot of words from what I read but I am also planning to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spanish-Vocabulary-Etymological-David-Brodsky\/dp\/0292716680\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1514781391&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Spanish+Vocabulary+an+Etymological+Approach.\">Spanish Vocabulary an Etymological Approach<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Read eight books in Spanish, or 100 pages per week, whichever it shakes out to.<\/li>\n<li>Watch a movie or a couple of episodes of a TV show in Spanish each week.<\/li>\n<li>Call a roller derby game in Spanish. I surprised myself by doing a bilingual call for two games at WFTDA Playoffs in Seattle. I would do it again, given the chance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Icelandic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, Icelandic, you wild and crazy language. Earlier in the year, I felt like I was making some good progress, but things dropped off this summer when my tutor had to take a hiatus and I was left to my own devices. I stopped working on Icelandic for a while and decided to focus my attention on Spanish, but I&#8217;m not out of the Icelandic game yet. My goal for this year is to be consistent, even if I only do a little bit every day. I know I&#8217;m not going to get too deep since this is going to be a big year for studying Spanish, but I don&#8217;t want to lose everything I have learned. I&#8217;m planning to keep reviewing vocabulary on Memrise and Clozemaster and I hope I can start taking lessons again before too long.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Athletics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year I <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=386\">became an athlete<\/a>. I competed in my first Strongman competition in Santa Cruz, and I won in the novice women&#8217;s category (by defeating one other woman). I played roller derby on our B team, which felt great. I&#8217;m hoping for more of all that in 2018. I have plans to compete in another strength competition in April. I&#8217;m already prepping for derby tryouts (which are in just three weeks. yikes.) by skating outside and re-adjusting to life on wheels. I expect that it will be harder to make the B team this year because both of Sacramento&#8217;s derby leagues are merging, resulting in more skaters. That said, I&#8217;m feeling confident. I gained a lot of skill and strength last year.<\/p>\n<p>Also derby related if not specifically athletic, I am planning to continue announcing this year and I&#8217;m going to start coaching our C team. Last year I was lucky enough to announce at a tournament, at RollerCon and at WFTDA playoffs. I&#8217;m hoping to do all that again this year because it was so fun. I also want to spread the good word of announcing and I&#8217;m going to work with my league to try to have some kind of announcing workshop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everything Else in This Life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part of me wants to set specific goals for everything, but past a certain point, it&#8217;s better to just think about how I want to live, instead of the numbers I want to live by. One quality I developed this year was my ability to relax. I&#8217;m getting better at identifying when to stop doing things and at figuring out how to let myself rest. I want to read books that make me feel things and learn new stuff (this year I learned how to knit!). In short, I&#8217;m planning to keep on doing my thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 was a very full year. It seemed like I had something going on every weekend, which is not my normal way of living, but it worked out. We have my work-from-home job to thank for this. 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