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chicafrom3The old year is dead. May it rot in peace.
Okay, a couple not-terrible things happened in 2017: the new Star Wars; series ten of Doctor Who and the casting of the 13th Doctor; American Gods on Starz; BritBox was a thing; new music from Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, the Tossers, Declan Bennett, Taylor Swift, Karen Olivo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Endway (! i'm still stunned), and Jonathan Coulton. On a real life level, I got a new job which will be higher-paying (still almost two weeks till my first paycheck), more stable (hopefully), and less soul-crushing (also hopefully), and I made some measurable progress in my quest to learn Irish.
But let's be upfront here: 2017 sucked. It was miserable. Largely for political reasons. And there's no guarantee 2018 is going to be any better on that front (although it MIGHT BE, c'mon Mueller you're our last hope), but that doesn't make me any less glad to see the last embers of 2017 die. It was awful.
Blech.
Let's not focus on that for the moment.
Goodreads sent me my journey in books for 2017. According to them, I read 90,157 pages across 627 books. The shortest book was Doctor Who: Whispers Of Terror at 1 page (I don't think Goodreads quite knows how to handle audio dramas) and the longest was Passage at 780 pages. Of the books I read, the most popular on the site was The Handmaid's Tale, read by 1,282,861 other people; the least popular was the comic Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor (2016-) #14, which apparently I am the only person on the site to have read. My average rating was 3.7. I beat my reading challenge goal by 172% and am "really good at reading, and probably a lot of other things, too!"
Thanks, Goodreads.
According to last.fm, I scrobbled 6,976 tracks in 2017, an average of 19 per day. I listened to 685 different artists -- the top 10 were The Pogues (1,654), Shane MacGowan And The Popes (370), Taylor Swift (302), Dropkick Murphys (275), Flogging Molly (260), Markéta Irglová (200), Glen Hansard (188), The Swell Season (152), Declan Bennett (128), and Lin-Manuel Miranda (112). I like how very clearly delineated that list is. I listened to 369 albums; the top 10 were Flogging Molly's Life Is Good (132), the cast recording of Come From Away (125), Markéta Irglová's Anar (105), something labeled Alan Menken - Original Soundtrack [Deluxe Edition], probably Beauty And The Beast (104), Dropkick Murphy's 11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory (100), the cast recording of Dear Evan Hansen (93), The Hamilton Mixtape (93), The Hamilton Instrumentals (92), Markéta Irglová's Muna (79), and Megan Hilty's It Happens All The Time (74). That was a fairly close race, wasn't it? And finally, I listened to 2,345 distinct tracts, with the most popular being the Pogues' Repeal Of The Licensing Laws (63), and the rest of the top 10 also being filled by the Pogues. You have to go down to 31st place to find a non-Pogues song and then it's Shane MacGowan and the Popes so still basically the Pogues.
Then we move away from things that other sites tidily track for me!
This year I watched 1175 episodes of new-to-me TV and 839 episodes of already-seen TV, for a grand total of 2014 episodes of TV and a ratio of 58% new. That is a LOT of TV. To break down numbers even further, that involved 72 different series and more than a few episodes that got watched more than once. Doctor Who by itself accounted for 477 episodes of that...or 507 if you add in Class and the Sarah Jane Adventures. It's possible I watch way too much TV.
I watched 33 new-to-me movies and rewatched 26, for a grand total of 59. A few movies got watched more than once, notably Moana (4 times), the 2017 version of Beauty and the Beast (2 times), and Muppets From Space (2 times). Unusually for me I made it to the movie theatre twice this year, for the live-action Beauty And The Beast and for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
And that's the numbers.
I'm not sure I'll repeat this process in 2018. While breaking down what I'd read/watched/listened to every month did lead to me thinking in greater depth about the media I consume, it was also kind of exhausting...and there were times I had to write up a post when I was left going "I don't remember anything about [media] and I don't feel like doing this." (But I did it anyway because I am nothing if not dedicated to self-set goals that matter not at all.) I'm not even completely sure I'll continue keeping track of everything, aside from Goodreads/Last.fm, and that's been a much longer experiment. I don't know. We'll see what happens.
In terms of my personal life, this last month has been kind of a wild ride -- flew halfway across the country to apply to a job outside of my field but with better pay and more stability, got rejected from the job without an interview, got called back and asked if I would come in for an interview anyway, got the job with a starting date of the day after Christmas, frantically arranged a last-minute flight home so I could do an early Christmas with my immediate family (except for my brother, who flew in for Christmas the same day I flew back and we saw each other for a total of two hours in the space between his flight landing and mine leaving), purchased a whole new wardrobe because for the first time in my life I need to wear business casual on a regular basis, and started said new job. It's. It's been stressful. I think it's going to work out, though. And unlike my last outside-my-field job it doesn't seem like I'm going to spend every day wishing I was dead. That seems like an improvement.
Otherwise this year has been pretty barren on the personal-life front. I spent a significant amount of time babysitting my nephews, I read a lot and watched a lot of TV (I haven't figured out my Goodreads goal for 2018 but it is not going to be based on how much I read in 2017, lmao), I had Feelings (the capital F is warranted) about various fandoms, particularly Doctor Who and Star Wars. That was about it.
Now it's time to see what 2018 is going to bring.
Okay, a couple not-terrible things happened in 2017: the new Star Wars; series ten of Doctor Who and the casting of the 13th Doctor; American Gods on Starz; BritBox was a thing; new music from Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, the Tossers, Declan Bennett, Taylor Swift, Karen Olivo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Endway (! i'm still stunned), and Jonathan Coulton. On a real life level, I got a new job which will be higher-paying (still almost two weeks till my first paycheck), more stable (hopefully), and less soul-crushing (also hopefully), and I made some measurable progress in my quest to learn Irish.
But let's be upfront here: 2017 sucked. It was miserable. Largely for political reasons. And there's no guarantee 2018 is going to be any better on that front (although it MIGHT BE, c'mon Mueller you're our last hope), but that doesn't make me any less glad to see the last embers of 2017 die. It was awful.
Blech.
Let's not focus on that for the moment.
Goodreads sent me my journey in books for 2017. According to them, I read 90,157 pages across 627 books. The shortest book was Doctor Who: Whispers Of Terror at 1 page (I don't think Goodreads quite knows how to handle audio dramas) and the longest was Passage at 780 pages. Of the books I read, the most popular on the site was The Handmaid's Tale, read by 1,282,861 other people; the least popular was the comic Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor (2016-) #14, which apparently I am the only person on the site to have read. My average rating was 3.7. I beat my reading challenge goal by 172% and am "really good at reading, and probably a lot of other things, too!"
Thanks, Goodreads.
According to last.fm, I scrobbled 6,976 tracks in 2017, an average of 19 per day. I listened to 685 different artists -- the top 10 were The Pogues (1,654), Shane MacGowan And The Popes (370), Taylor Swift (302), Dropkick Murphys (275), Flogging Molly (260), Markéta Irglová (200), Glen Hansard (188), The Swell Season (152), Declan Bennett (128), and Lin-Manuel Miranda (112). I like how very clearly delineated that list is. I listened to 369 albums; the top 10 were Flogging Molly's Life Is Good (132), the cast recording of Come From Away (125), Markéta Irglová's Anar (105), something labeled Alan Menken - Original Soundtrack [Deluxe Edition], probably Beauty And The Beast (104), Dropkick Murphy's 11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory (100), the cast recording of Dear Evan Hansen (93), The Hamilton Mixtape (93), The Hamilton Instrumentals (92), Markéta Irglová's Muna (79), and Megan Hilty's It Happens All The Time (74). That was a fairly close race, wasn't it? And finally, I listened to 2,345 distinct tracts, with the most popular being the Pogues' Repeal Of The Licensing Laws (63), and the rest of the top 10 also being filled by the Pogues. You have to go down to 31st place to find a non-Pogues song and then it's Shane MacGowan and the Popes so still basically the Pogues.
Then we move away from things that other sites tidily track for me!
This year I watched 1175 episodes of new-to-me TV and 839 episodes of already-seen TV, for a grand total of 2014 episodes of TV and a ratio of 58% new. That is a LOT of TV. To break down numbers even further, that involved 72 different series and more than a few episodes that got watched more than once. Doctor Who by itself accounted for 477 episodes of that...or 507 if you add in Class and the Sarah Jane Adventures. It's possible I watch way too much TV.
I watched 33 new-to-me movies and rewatched 26, for a grand total of 59. A few movies got watched more than once, notably Moana (4 times), the 2017 version of Beauty and the Beast (2 times), and Muppets From Space (2 times). Unusually for me I made it to the movie theatre twice this year, for the live-action Beauty And The Beast and for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
And that's the numbers.
I'm not sure I'll repeat this process in 2018. While breaking down what I'd read/watched/listened to every month did lead to me thinking in greater depth about the media I consume, it was also kind of exhausting...and there were times I had to write up a post when I was left going "I don't remember anything about [media] and I don't feel like doing this." (But I did it anyway because I am nothing if not dedicated to self-set goals that matter not at all.) I'm not even completely sure I'll continue keeping track of everything, aside from Goodreads/Last.fm, and that's been a much longer experiment. I don't know. We'll see what happens.
In terms of my personal life, this last month has been kind of a wild ride -- flew halfway across the country to apply to a job outside of my field but with better pay and more stability, got rejected from the job without an interview, got called back and asked if I would come in for an interview anyway, got the job with a starting date of the day after Christmas, frantically arranged a last-minute flight home so I could do an early Christmas with my immediate family (except for my brother, who flew in for Christmas the same day I flew back and we saw each other for a total of two hours in the space between his flight landing and mine leaving), purchased a whole new wardrobe because for the first time in my life I need to wear business casual on a regular basis, and started said new job. It's. It's been stressful. I think it's going to work out, though. And unlike my last outside-my-field job it doesn't seem like I'm going to spend every day wishing I was dead. That seems like an improvement.
Otherwise this year has been pretty barren on the personal-life front. I spent a significant amount of time babysitting my nephews, I read a lot and watched a lot of TV (I haven't figured out my Goodreads goal for 2018 but it is not going to be based on how much I read in 2017, lmao), I had Feelings (the capital F is warranted) about various fandoms, particularly Doctor Who and Star Wars. That was about it.
Now it's time to see what 2018 is going to bring.
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