Bethanie's Brain

Another few weary steps and there was nothing above us but the sky. ~Sir Edmund Hillary One of the first heros I ever had is gone . I shall miss him.

Because of NaNo I can't have a regular, ol', run-of-the-mill list of New Year's Resolutions. No, no, I have to have a totally dorky list of Big, Fun, Scary, Adventure-y things I'm going to accomplish this year. Whatever. I don't recall ever claiming that I'm not dorky, so what the hell. Let's have at it! Complete and submit one short story. Learn to speak rudimentary but passable Chinese (Mandarin, I guess, even though everyone I work with is from Shanghai). Learn to read/write/vaguely recognize 50 Chinese characters, plus the numbers 1-100. Complete a first revision of either NaNo 2005 (the vampire thing) or NaNo 2006 (the fantasy thing). Teach myself some basic biostatistics (since I can't afford to take a class). At least complete one read-through of the $60 biostats book I bought myself for Christmas (I did mention being dorky, didn't I?). Teach myself some basics about protein structure (since I can't afford to take a class) by reading ...