Long Vacation.

I had my last day on July 31st and officially became unemployed starting in August. For some reason, I've felt quite at peace about the whole thing, and it feels like a long overdue vacation for me. My passport's even expired for over 6 years... Yes, a vacation is in order. Maybe not one involving those giant metallic birds that can take you across the oceans, but a vacation nonetheless.

Of course, I have plans beside looking for my next job during this time of rest. Some will become part of my daily life, while some will be accomplished over a period of time. I haven't gotten everything laid down yet, but here's some of the things I plan to do:

[Devotion time]
One of my biggest goal during the long vacation is to read more Bible and know more about God, which I've neglected for a long time. I think it's time for me to go back to the origin and start afresh. To boot, I'll challenge myself and start with the Old Testament. All those background readings for various ACG series should be good enough preparations. I can do this.

[Sleeping earlier & Walking]
Yeah, it's no secret that my health sucks. The only saving grace (or not) is that I can go on with just few hours of sleep, but that obvious won't last, and my body's been protesting (craaaaack) since last year. Now that I don't have to spend close to 10 hours out everyday, I can go to bed earlier. My goal over the next month or so is to make 12am so I can get up at 8 and hopefully be out walking by 9 if the weather permits.

[Anime]
Entertainment is an essential part of rest for me, so that's where anime comes in. A large chunk of time will be devoted to job searching during the weekdays, so I'll probably keep my anime watching to the weekends. Maybe an additional episode or two during meals a few times per week.

[Game]
Frankly, I don't see myself playing much. I'll probably just finish the Alice in Clover game and call it quits. Maybe the occasional online casual games and RO once a month. I kinda lost my appetite for CLANNAD after someone told me that the Tomoyo ending, the only one I'm interested, is a bad one... Little Black is still in a coma so I can't touch the DQ III save file in there. :(

[Translation]
I've talked about this for a looooong time but never got around to actually do it. I'm planning to use this chance to put the proposed writing/translation blog into action. If all goes well (I'll be using the same template for it so I want to find out why this blog is not indexed by Google...), it should be ready for posting by the end of the month. I don't really have anything to offer yet, but eventually I'll post Agion (original work in progress) and the English translation for the Saiunkoku Monogatari novels. Be warned, though, that I have no formal Japanese education and everything I know was picked up watching anime...

[Plamo]
Over the years I have accumulated over a dozen plamo (the number will likely increase once I get a chance to watch Gundam 00) and only managed to build three. My hands are itching with anticipation, but I guess I'll have to re-arrange my room again (oh, man...) to make room (pun intended) for them first. My goal is one plamo every two months.

[Learning]
I love learning new things and I have a wide array of totally unrelated interests, so I'm definitely taking the time to learn something. I really really really want to play with the VOCALOIDs, but they're so expensive, especially KAITO... orz

One can probably guess that I'm not an outdoor person. What a boring Canadian, eh? Anyhow, this is my initial plan for the long vacation. We'll see how it goes. :)