the annual year-end post
Dec. 31st, 2010 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacIn 2010, I stayed overnight in the following cities away from home:
Seattle, WA
Mount Lebanon, PA (near Pittsburgh)
Clyde, OH (near nowhere in particular)
Sharonville, OH (near Cincinnati)
Ventura, CA (the least pleasant night of the whole year, no fault of the venue)
Pasadena, CA (on two separate occasions)
Dallas, TX
Los Angeles, CA
I drove as far south as the aforesaid Pasadena, and as far north/east as Sacramento.
I changed planes in NM and I don't remember where else (IL? AZ?), and spent unbelievably brief periods of time driving on freeways that poked noses into KY and IN, just to do it.
I visited the graves of three US Presidents, and the birthplaces of four, including two of the above three.
During the year, I published 20 concert reviews at San Francisco Classical Voice, two major articles - "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2007" and the one on Tolkien and music, "Liquid Tolkien" - four book reviews, a conference report, and an obituary. One of the reviews and the last two items originated as LJ posts, which is also how I became a concert reviewer in the first place, so it looks like that's the best way to persuade myself to get anything written.
Seattle, WA
Mount Lebanon, PA (near Pittsburgh)
Clyde, OH (near nowhere in particular)
Sharonville, OH (near Cincinnati)
Ventura, CA (the least pleasant night of the whole year, no fault of the venue)
Pasadena, CA (on two separate occasions)
Dallas, TX
Los Angeles, CA
I drove as far south as the aforesaid Pasadena, and as far north/east as Sacramento.
I changed planes in NM and I don't remember where else (IL? AZ?), and spent unbelievably brief periods of time driving on freeways that poked noses into KY and IN, just to do it.
I visited the graves of three US Presidents, and the birthplaces of four, including two of the above three.
During the year, I published 20 concert reviews at San Francisco Classical Voice, two major articles - "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2007" and the one on Tolkien and music, "Liquid Tolkien" - four book reviews, a conference report, and an obituary. One of the reviews and the last two items originated as LJ posts, which is also how I became a concert reviewer in the first place, so it looks like that's the best way to persuade myself to get anything written.
