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I always find that no matter how busy semester was, in the holidays I end up feeling even busier due to my tendency to shelve all my ideas and promise myself that I'll work on them when I have time, ie during the summer holidays. Here's a small sampling:

Get a flatmate: Done! Last time I posted an ad (in September I think) I got almost no interest, this time I got a flood. And the lucky person is... a Mongolian woman who can barely speak English. The advantages are that she wants to move in asap and is pretty much guaranteed not to bug me, thus letting me get as close as possible to my ideal of living alone-but-not. The disadvantage is that I'm not quite convinced yet that she isn't an illegal immigrant/trying to find a place to stay for free/going to steal my stuff/going to murder me in my bed. Also I won't be able to socialise with her if I feel lonely and none of my friends are available, but that happens infrequently enough to be a non-issue.

Learn to drive: Still haven't started. My learners license expires in February. Realistically I'm going to have a huge amount of trouble getting those 50 hours practice in a month but I feel like I should try.

Program a bus timetabling system: The purpose of this is to a) make something useful, since I want to consult the timetable relatively often when I don't have internet nearby, and b) get practise at programming, since the Arts focus of my degree at the moment means I haven't done much programming for the last year. While linguistics remains my true love, I accept that it does virtually nothing for my employability. Real jobs are going to come from programming, if anywhere.
I'm making progress but it's painful; I'm rusty at programming in general and I've almost completely forgotten the syntax of Python, meaning that I'm constantly stopping to look up really basic stuff.

Finish my current game-in-progress: After my last round of dating I got massively frustrated with all the stupid conventions associated with dating, such as how the guy has to pay or he won't feel macho, and the girl has to let him keep his precious macho pride by letting him pay and make all the decisions and so forth. So I was full of ranty irritation and the idea came to me that conventional dating would be a decent concept for a funny game, not to mention a cathartic way to deal with my feelings about the experience. Since then the irritation has faded so I don't have nearly as much drive to finish it, but one of my main goals in life at the moment is to carry through on some of my ideas instead of starting half a dozen projects and finishing none. This one is already started and so I'm going to try to keep going on it when I can fit it in.

Learn more about the stock market: After the whole financial crisis etc I think a lot of people have this as a goal :) My realistic goal is to feel comfortable enough with the market to be able to make a portfolio of some kind. My ideal goal is to understand it well enough to play the day trading game well enough to make profit, even enough to replace a job.

Other stuff which includes programming a simple netgame my friends and I used to play over MSN, finishing all those PS2 games my friend lent me ages ago, exercising and cooking..

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