* Save $3,000
* Avoid checking overdrafts
* Read at least one non-required book each month
* Donate at least $20 to a charity or nonprofit each month
* Maintain a positive attitude
* Treat people well, myself included
I'm an impoverished college student; financial goals have been set accordingly.
* To finish reading Montaigne's essays (I've been blogging about them in Monday Morning Montaigne)
* To not begin Tuesday Morning Plutarch right after finishing my Montaigne project
* To read fewer novels and more poetry
* To get back to practicing yoga
* To brush my dog's teeth 3x weekly
They're kinda boring, I admit, but my health is good, my professional life is rolling along fine, my finances are in order, and I find myself in the mid-life-y phase where I've realized that I have a lot of the things I really want in life: true love, a quiet home, and a dog who wags his tail ferociously when I walk in the door.
Oh, yeah: I resolve to finish writing my epic post, "Tabloid Dreams and the Plastic People of the Universe"!
-Finish School
-Maintain a professional attitude towards everything
-Box and read more
-Meet fitness requirements
-Quietly mend the damage from this year (to the extent that it is possible)
1) Meet a girl that I really like (takes a lot more than just cute), and date her. (Many people have told me I can't force this, and maybe that's so. But if I don't at least TRY then there is no chance it will happen.)
2) Get a movie set up. (read: financed)
3) Get my weight under 210. (I got it under 220 in 2008, down from almost 240. I'm also 6'5", just to give the numbers a little perspective.) I feel this will require working out at least 3 times a week, plus pushups and situps every night at home.
- Save a pile of money.
- Succeed at my new job.
- Keep the wife very happy.
- Improve work/life balance.
- Travel around the Middle East.
- Start working out regularly again. In moderation.
Do some new things - including cooking at least one of McArdle's recipes.
See more of old friends.
See new places.
Borrow some more money.
Put some idle assets to work.
Sort out and complete at least one of my hanging- fire projects.
Re-read Principia Mathemetica (put in so that there is at least one I will be happy to break; and because it would be less awful than re-reading Calvin's Institutes.)
Become a vegan to showcase my moral superiority then change my mind and go back to eating meat but only because my doctor allegedly told me to since a diet of just Frito's and peanut butter is lethal.
1. Swim in the ocean
2. Finally release that hip hop album
3. Write a book about how to live in Shanghai like a trust fund kid on less than $1,000 a month
4. Sleep with more white/ethnic girls and less AZNs
5. Drink less bubble tea
6. Stop getting lost in the deep corners of YouTube
New Years Resolutions
1) Quitting 'Snus' or 'Swedish Snuff' as it's sometimes called. A very convenient, but appallingly unaesthetic, way of absorbing the same amount of nicotine as smoking 3-4 packs a day.
2) Let's do it.
3) Not just learn, but actually remember the 2000 japanese basic proficiency Kanjis.
1. Cheesy but true: The serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to changes the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. Damn you, wisdom!
2. Review of new record in Pitchfork. Album is titled "Pain is a Reliable Signal" and is quite nice.
3. "Recommended" rating from Pitchfork concurrent with review in Pitchfork.
* Save $3,000
* Avoid checking overdrafts
* Read at least one non-required book each month
* Donate at least $20 to a charity or nonprofit each month
* Maintain a positive attitude
* Treat people well, myself included
I'm an impoverished college student; financial goals have been set accordingly.
read more Megan McArdle...I stumbled on this blog and I quite like it!
Spend less time reading blogs (except for this one, of course).
I don't make them for myself. Though I love to make them for other people in my life.
I resolve:
* To finish reading Montaigne's essays (I've been blogging about them in Monday Morning Montaigne)
* To not begin Tuesday Morning Plutarch right after finishing my Montaigne project
* To read fewer novels and more poetry
* To get back to practicing yoga
* To brush my dog's teeth 3x weekly
They're kinda boring, I admit, but my health is good, my professional life is rolling along fine, my finances are in order, and I find myself in the mid-life-y phase where I've realized that I have a lot of the things I really want in life: true love, a quiet home, and a dog who wags his tail ferociously when I walk in the door.
Oh, yeah: I resolve to finish writing my epic post, "Tabloid Dreams and the Plastic People of the Universe"!
-Finish School
-Maintain a professional attitude towards everything
-Box and read more
-Meet fitness requirements
-Quietly mend the damage from this year (to the extent that it is possible)
Same as for the last few years, try to say yes more.
Try, for the fourth time, to do a massive project I try and fail at every four years or so. This time for sure! Wish me luck.
My resolution will be 45 nanometers.
1) Meet a girl that I really like (takes a lot more than just cute), and date her. (Many people have told me I can't force this, and maybe that's so. But if I don't at least TRY then there is no chance it will happen.)
2) Get a movie set up. (read: financed)
3) Get my weight under 210. (I got it under 220 in 2008, down from almost 240. I'm also 6'5", just to give the numbers a little perspective.) I feel this will require working out at least 3 times a week, plus pushups and situps every night at home.
Do more. Every day.
find employment after graduation
I resolve to make no resolutions for the New Year.
I resolve to start wallowing less in dislike for a certain soon to be ex-prez, and to stop spending so much time watching stuff like this....
http://tv1.com/playlists/105
I might need an intervention.
- Save a pile of money.
- Succeed at my new job.
- Keep the wife very happy.
- Improve work/life balance.
- Travel around the Middle East.
- Start working out regularly again. In moderation.
read the Bible in a year
read John Calvin's Institutes
read three books per month
learn 4 songs on the guitar
Do some new things - including cooking at least one of McArdle's recipes.
See more of old friends.
See new places.
Borrow some more money.
Put some idle assets to work.
Sort out and complete at least one of my hanging- fire projects.
Re-read Principia Mathemetica (put in so that there is at least one I will be happy to break; and because it would be less awful than re-reading Calvin's Institutes.)
Become a vegan to showcase my moral superiority then change my mind and go back to eating meat but only because my doctor allegedly told me to since a diet of just Frito's and peanut butter is lethal.
I have a few:
- run a little more - I've been slacking a bit, down to about 25 miles a week and would like to get back up to 30-35 if I can only find the time
- take a break from work once in a while (I can get pretty intense about it when I'm waist-deep in a case)
- start studying kyudo (the way of the bow) again
- Read Augustine's confessions
1. Get a Somali passport
2. learn to wolf whistle
3. eat my weight in celery
4. shoot a cop with a paint ball and get away with it.
1. Swim in the ocean
2. Finally release that hip hop album
3. Write a book about how to live in Shanghai like a trust fund kid on less than $1,000 a month
4. Sleep with more white/ethnic girls and less AZNs
5. Drink less bubble tea
6. Stop getting lost in the deep corners of YouTube
like your blog.
Buy a new calendar.
New Years Resolutions
1) Quitting 'Snus' or 'Swedish Snuff' as it's sometimes called. A very convenient, but appallingly unaesthetic, way of absorbing the same amount of nicotine as smoking 3-4 packs a day.
2) Let's do it.
3) Not just learn, but actually remember the 2000 japanese basic proficiency Kanjis.
1. Cheesy but true: The serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to changes the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. Damn you, wisdom!
2. Review of new record in Pitchfork. Album is titled "Pain is a Reliable Signal" and is quite nice.
3. "Recommended" rating from Pitchfork concurrent with review in Pitchfork.
forget I'm getting old, remembering i'm still young
Get back to running 4 days a week
Keep my office clean
Watch less crap on TV
I resolve every year to stop being mediocre.