New Year, New Habits

It's time I changed some of my established habits. I established some of these habits as far back as the last century, as coping mechanisms for different times: times which no longer have any relevance for me.

It's a different time, now; and I am a different person to the person who I once was. My needs are different. My tastes are different. So I need new habits to follow, which are more relevant to the person I am today, rather than to my past selves.

For one thing, I begin this new decade as a published writer. So I have to work on a writerly habit that will give me my space and the resources I need to write productively.

For another thing, I have a long-term goal learning languages; so in addition to the writing, I have to write in those languages too; write, read, listen, speak. That means a new kind of habit: a social habit, meeting more people face to face and communicating wit them.

I have to look after my body: so my eating habits must also change. I have an idea as to how they must change. That change has already begun.

So much to change, and to be, and to do. And it begins. Now.

Some Numerical Quirks

Yesterday was, of course, 10 / 01 / 01, a binary date.

Today is 2010 / 01 /02, a palindromic number. I already observed 01:02 on 2010 / 01 / 02; tonight, I will observe 2010 / 01 / 02 20:10.

Later this year, of course, will come the chance to observe 2010 / 20 / 10, or perhaps 2010 / 10 / 20, if you want to be perverse about it.

Observation

I'm bipolar.

Sometimes, I think I'm a polar bear. Other times, I think I'm a penguin.