I want to read books more, and talk to people about books. I read the whole Hunger Games trilogy this summer and even though I was bursting with thoughts about it, those thoughts never went anywhere. Yes, not liking Mockingjay is probably universal, but was I the only one disappointed with most of Catching Fire as well? The movie was better than the book, in my opinion. I want to finish Discworld, see what Neil Gaiman and Robin McKinley and Janet Fitch and Elizabeth Kostova are up to, check out Jacqueline Carey's new series, get further than A Feast for Crows in ASoIaF, check out the Vorkosigan Saga since Sev referenced it, years and years ago, in a fic she wrote for me. I want to finally read Diana Wynne Jones and Jasper Fforde. I want to read the comics Yuul and Val keep recommending.

I want to go for walks. I want to start swimming again. I haven't been swimming in years and I miss it. I know I'm out of shape, partly due to endo limiting what I can do, but I keep being recommended exercise and I keep not taking the initiative. The gym at school is free now. I should take advantage of that. I want to be at least a little healthier.

I want to cook actual meals more, rather than defaulting to whatever is closest at hand.

I want to spend more time with my family, especially the cousins I rarely get to see. I have over twenty cousins, and a lot of them are in my age bracket, but because of distance and schedules, I don't get to see them very much. My closest cousin (in affection, not in distance) has a two year old daughter that I still haven't met. I want to do more things with the cousins who do live close, because they just lost their mother this past summer and need their family right now.

I want to do better in school. I do well for the most part, As and Bs, but I failed an assignment that was worth 20% of my grade in the course and got a 68 on a different assignment. I'm used to overachieving -- I had a 4.0 at my last school -- but I've become lazy, and I want to fix that. I want to have an academic record I can be proud of, especially if I am considering taking the LSATs.

I want to talk to people more one-on-one. I'm really happier doing that than the alternative. I want to make more time for my RL friends; [Friend] has been back in Canada for months now and I've still not seen her. I want to catch up with the people I went to Sheridan with. I want to make more friends at my current school.

I want to do more volunteer work. I got my sexual violence crisis counselor/public educator certification a week ago, so starting in January I need to do 25 hours of public education about consent and healthy relationships and then I start my actual counselor duties. I want to do more things like that. I want to be involved.

I want to update my iPod because it's been almost two years, what the hell.

I want to write actual fanfic again. I want to do my chocobo down requirements for FFEX and get back into the exchange itself. I've learned a great deal about writing in the past few years, and I want to apply what I've learned in a way that's separate from RP.

I want to use my DW more!

I want to survive this week. Two finals down, two to go and I am ridiculously stressed to the point of just wanting the world to fuck off -- basically, if you're not Kay or Yuul or Val or my mother, don't even talk to me, I will become the Jesociraptor and eat your face off no matter how much I like you the other fifty-one weeks out of the year.

And, most of all, I want to make this list into a reality.

I have some thinking to do and some decisions to make.