Current goal: Get to 10k on KGS.
May 2012: I begin my long journey towards becoming a top professional go player in the Kansai Ki-in. I read through the beginner's study section of SL.
June 2nd 2012: I realized May was rather unproductive, I'm still stuck in the beginner class on IGS. Because of that fact, I've started a new study plan. For anybody reading this after I inevitably change my study plan, I'll outline it here. Every day: go problems for an hour and review my recent games. Every week: Play a face to face game and replay a pro game. Every month: Play 12+ games and read a new go book.
June 10th 2012: I'm having a bit of trouble sticking to my study plan since I'm working so much overtime. I need to try to find a balance between working too little to have the money I need and working too much to keep to my study plan. I signed up for KGS+ and a goproblems pro account. I've also started playing on KGS.
July 1st 2012: In June I only played the minimum 12 games, I didn't get to play a single face-to-face game, I didn't get around to reviewing any pro games, and I didn't do go problems every day. I did manage to thoroughly read my book for the month. Overall I didn't do very well in June, so hopefully I'll do much better in July. I've added dailyjoseki.com to my daily portion of my study plan. I also determined the right amount of overtime, at my job, is none; I think, for the time being, extra study time is more important than extra money.
August 2nd 2012: I redid my study plan to be more in line with what I actually do, as opposed to what I'd like to do. This is mostly because my schedule is getting busier, and I won't have time to gradually work my way up to following my study plan like I had hoped. I'm also going to be taking a break from serious study for the month of August. I'm moving to a new apartment, starting a new semester, and a bunch of other stuff is going on that should all settle down by September. I'll still play go, study problems when I can, and reread stuff to stay sharp. I just won't be doing anything like reading a new book, or reviewing every game I play after I play it.
November 2nd 2012: Somehow my 1 month break turned into a 3 month break, but I'm back. I won't bore you with the details, but basically my life has been a mess and it's only now gotten back to a point where I have time for go. I'll be resuming my normal go study plan starting today.
December 21st 2012: I have to take a break again, not that I truly came back from my last break. I might as well give an explanation that goes into just enough detail (that is to say, very vague) to explain why I haven't been, and won't be, doing much of anything go related. I have an issue that tends to improve for a period of time and then go back to being bad. When I started seriously studying go, I was in one of those good periods which I had hoped would have lasted much longer. Things have again gotten bad, in September actually, but I tried resuming studying go anyways. That hasn't been working out, so I'm going to officially take a break again. I have a reason to hope that things may improve by late January, but if they don't I will almost certainly flat out quit. I'll return the first of February at the latest, even if it's only to say that I've quit. I will not respond to any inquires regarding this post.