So, I've never done anything like this before (blogging that is). The closest I've come was my fickle attempt at keeping a diary in high school, which lasted barely beyond a month and became more of a chore than an opportunity to off load my random and some what hormonal driven thoughts for the day. But here I am, joining the 21st centuries version of a high school girls diary. Only, I'm a little older, a bit more damaged and perhaps a little wiser?
So why have I decided to create a blog? To keep me committed to the task at hand I guess. If I feel I'm accountable to somebody (anybody), even a stranger who may be across the other side of the world, than maybe I will be able to follow through. The task: watch every movie nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards between 1980 and 2009/2010, within a year. This seems like an easy task you may think, but that's a total of 155 movies, approximately 23250 minutes of film (based on an average of two and a half hours per film) and an average of three movies watched per week to complete this task by October 2011. On top of this, I work full time, have an active social life and am trying to plan a wedding. Time is not my friend!
Why am I doing this? Hmmm.... good question. I guess I consider myself to be a part of a relatively new class of people or maybe a classic Gen Y. The kind of person, who went to school for thirteen years and then immediately to university afterwards. The type of person who has always had a goal and now is kind of just going through the motions with nothing really to work towards. Don't get out the violins just yet, I am very happy and consider myself very lucky. I guess I just need a goal, no matter how trivial. Why blog about it? You may be thinking I'm a Julie Powell wannabe, however I'm only Julie if somebody actually reads this and seeing as I'm not confident about that, lets just say, I'm publicly ranting via the Internet:)
So come along if you want and spend a Year With Oscar too (three movies per week friends:)) or read about my year with Oscar. Hopefully, I'll be here in a years time completing the movies of 2009/2010.... or not. Who really cares!
