New Year Resolutions...

-- drink around 3 litres of water a day

-- shit my pants LESS than 10 times in 2004

-- find rigatoni boy boy and get him to fix my suit

-- find out where big l is burried and bury all my rare big l vinyl near him

-- try to focus my stalking on one woman at a time(insteade of 4-5), in the long run I will reap bigger rewards this way.

-- get at least 8 hours of sleep at any cost

-- STOP listening to the following songs:

* whitney houston- how will i know

* bonnie tyler- total eclipse of the heart

-- increase my vitamin a and cod liver oil intake

-- buy an umbrella(again)

-- record an album of classical music called "HIT ME IN THE COCK"

-- try to convince makoto kiyose the official leader of the groping club I am a member of that stalking is the future and groping is a primitive activity which will eventually see us all get arrested.

-- start trying to sell my play "dark penguin"

-- start work on my autobiography "confessions of a monstrous cheese"

-- spend more time stealing womens underwear

-- NEVER pay $40 for a lace see thru thong again, even if sandee westgate has worn it!

my resolution is simply to start kicking arse in every department, you've been warned

2. don't get annoyed by peoples opinions on music (haha unlikely)

3. quit smoking (even more unlikely since i can't sleep without cigarettes)

4. get more of my work printed.

5. do some excercise

6. revert to taking drugs more regularly/drinking less (this ties in with 5)

7. examine the validity of the accusation that I am "too bitter and neurotic to not be single". it's not true! nooo!

(Note: I'd resolve to go on a proper date with a fetching lass, but I've resolved that before and come up empty and bitter.)

Serious answer: a) get a job b) get a relationship and manage not to pine when it ends.

(sorry)

(If this gets revived next year can someone please copy and paste these for me and save me the effort?)

I also got more stuff printed but not enough. Next year I want to

1. get more stuff printed and try and get stuff printed in different places and in other mags.
2. become a better dj, technically, and get some headline gigs.
3. work harder promoting our club.
4. DECIDE WHAT TO DO WHEN I FINISH COLLEGE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

SEXDRUGSANDROCKANDROLL2005.

I think these are workable!

mine aren't:
1. spend less money on unnecessary food and clothes
2. Eat healthier and exercise blah blah blah
3. no giving up and not doing something awesome this summer if i fail at getting school funding to work at a museum
4. write in journal more often and read a bit more too

To revive or start a new thread? I wasn't sure so I thought I'd try this first.

Anyone intend to fail to achieve anything especially interesting this/next year?

- quit ilx

Get my own apartment, if I can afford it
Complete first year on the job (pass probation)

1. No packaged foods
2. Study/certifications
3. Have enough water/fruit each day
4. Go in no shops other than for groceries
5. One weekly shop for groceries
6. Have sex with more girls
7. Listen to others less and self more
8. No meat or chocolate
9. Get proper sleep on sun-thurs
10. Make sure that every night I go to sleep I can feel good about something that I have done or that has happened that day

Not to go up another pants size.
Study and improve my poker game.

Clean out bedroom closet RUTHLESSLY
Clear out hand wash only dishes from the counter every day

Lots of cleaning and reorganizing and reduction of stuff, definitely. Already made a head start on that and I plan to make it a regular thing throughout the year.

Why cut out chocolate?! It has antioxidants, you know.

get comfortable playing drums left-handed, that's about it.

get works shown
get in proper shape
plan ahead
hustle

Less food
Less worry
Less is more

More books
More recs
More knitting
More is less

I hereby resolve to ignore all of those vile free papers and spend my 2.5 hours to and from work consuming interesting and stimulating reading material. Never again will I be informed as to which horrible King's Road bar some toss-pot royal was seen stumbling out of at 4am.

^^^this was my sorta late-october resolution

Did you succeed? I doubt I will manage it but I did receive a couple of magazine subscriptions for Christmas which should make it more doable.

I haven't had my mind poisoned and emptied by Metro, London Lite or londonpaper since making that decision. If I want to read I take a book, if I don't want to read I write poetry, if I don't want to write poetry I think on things, if I don't to think on things I chat to strangers. Train journeys are exceptionally fecund grounds for creativity and social interaction; the free print media would rather have us engrossed in their meaningless, informationless void.

walk more
continue the book fast/utilize library/thin out book collection by at least one whole bookshelf
find job that lets me stay in Seattle more and have a life
finally unpack/store the remaining 25 boxes from the last move
have some parties

complete english degree
be teaching english by 9/1/08
submit 6 short stories for publication
sit zazen three times a week
reduce car debt
halve credit card debt

probably start using the internet more

stop letting school turn me into a zombie fatass (i.e. eat better, sleep more, do homework on time, etc.)
be more positive
go deaf so i don't have to listen to lots of annoying people
secure awesome summer fellowship
secure awesome job by end of summer
move into more permanent and nicer living space that i will actually decorate and turn into a "home"

Probably start sleeping better. Probably not add any robot sluts to myspace.

eat more peanut butter.

1998: No more nye resolutions
1999:
2000:
2001:
2002:
2003:
2004:
2005:
2006:
2007:
2008:

No year can be as bad as the end of 2007, so I feel quite hopeful about these:

1) Join gym near work with nice swimming pool, because all the ones near my house aren't that near to my house.
2)Pay off two or more debts in full.
3) Stand on middle of Thames flood barrier on a windy day and go 'whoooooooooooo.'
4) Stop buying clothes on eBay when bored.
5) Sell some clothes on eBay and reclaim some space in flat.
6) Do more creative and interesting things outside work, writing, singing, exploring etc.

Stop depending on other people so much (but I won't keep it)

Sure you will... We'll help you!

Stay out of jail and off the street.

read books
get restarted on the biography I've been researching
find somebody more competent than I to run the radio station and make it something to be proud of
stop being such a slob
healthier eating habits
cut out wasted expenses
look for better-paying, less boring job
make point of socializing more but drinking less while doing that

I forgot I wrote this last year:

"Get my own apartment, if I can afford it
Complete first year on the job (pass probation)

― Virginia Plain, Monday, 31 December 2007 14:21 (1 year ago)"

I completed the second one, and sort of forgot about wanting the first one.

For this year:

Get a new job with an easier commute.
Start saving a certain amount of money each month.
Go to the gym at least 3X/wk (yoga classes count).

be less grumpy

(me not you)

I wrote a list off the top of my head there, but it basically boils down to:

• Waste less time

write more
work more
make more money
ilx less (prob already failing at that one)

But Virginia, how will you find another job so suited to you? Unless they have a vacancy in the Graceland Library?

I cooked burgers last night and used healthy low-fat pork mince. No good. My first resolution is to make all subsequent burgers from proper meaty mince. This should be easy to maintain. I suppose this implies that I am also resolving to put on weight, though that is not actually the plan.