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2011 New Year’s Resolutions
God, is there anything more trite than being anti-New Year’s resolutions? Being anti-prediction comes in a close second.
If nothing else, resolutions make for a good way of measuring your frame of mind at a given time. For example, for 2009 I resolved to read all of Human Action. I didn’t do it, but as a reflection of where my mind was at in late 2008 — during the worst of the financial crisis — it makes for an interesting mile-marker.
So, blah blah blah, here are my resolutions:
- See the movie Country Strong.
- Get washboard abs.
- Start writing music again. Write, perhaps, a whole country album or a gospel album.
- Stay better in touch with family. Call Mother, father, and sister more regularly.
- Unplug from the internet/phone more frequently when I’m at home.
- Get out and meet people more and drink with people more like actual reporters do
- Play more poker, and perhaps learn a new game like Go or Backgammon.
- Crank up the effort on hygiene and attire a notch. More frequently be at the office wearing a shirt that’d be appropriate for going on TV or meeting semi-serious people. Shave more.
- Cook more at home, and eat out less. Specifically learn to cook some more basic meals, like, say, a pork roast.
- Eat more Korean food (big one!).
- Discover some more Chinese restaurants in Chinatown and in Queens.
- Get into more fights on the internet.
- Reorganize finances. Start trading currencies because everyone else is doing it and it looks like a lot of fun.
