Ever since I'd heard it in a movie or t.v. show (the title now long-since forgotten), my standard response to the question "What's your New Year's resolution?" was "To make no more resolutions." No one ever found the quip as funny as I did, so after a time I stopped saying it.
But I still don't make resolutions. Resolutions are open-ended promises that are doomed to fail. Instead, I set specific goals for myself that can reasonably be achieved within the course of the year and the progress of which can be assessed at the end of every quarter. So, my goals for 2004:
- write 3k-a-day and complete one million words by the end of the year. My current start-and-stop method of writing (writing in bursts of ten thousand words a day seperated by stretches of several days of no writing at all) seems to average out to just under 3k-a-day. So, a little discipline and this goal should be easy. Not to mention that it's necessary should I desire to finish my thesis on time.
- take one thousand pictures. While cleaning my desk looking for some work I needed for the end of term, I found my digital camera and realized that I haven't taken any pics since the summer. And even then I haven't been using it as much as I'd intended. An average of three pics a day will get me my goal before the end of the year.
- regain flexibility suffcient to suck my own dick. Seven months were required to achieve this when I was eighteen. I think five extra months for five years older is reasonable. That I already know the stretching that is required and know that it's possible makes this the most reasonable of goals this year.
So, those are my goals. All formed by little, daily steps.
On a totally unrelated matter, I think my dream cover (i.e. the song that I most wish would be covered by a specific band) is Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" as covered by Type O Negative. Just imagining Peter crooning "how does it feeeeeeeeeeeel?" gives me chills.
What's your dream cover?
But I still don't make resolutions. Resolutions are open-ended promises that are doomed to fail. Instead, I set specific goals for myself that can reasonably be achieved within the course of the year and the progress of which can be assessed at the end of every quarter. So, my goals for 2004:
- write 3k-a-day and complete one million words by the end of the year. My current start-and-stop method of writing (writing in bursts of ten thousand words a day seperated by stretches of several days of no writing at all) seems to average out to just under 3k-a-day. So, a little discipline and this goal should be easy. Not to mention that it's necessary should I desire to finish my thesis on time.
- take one thousand pictures. While cleaning my desk looking for some work I needed for the end of term, I found my digital camera and realized that I haven't taken any pics since the summer. And even then I haven't been using it as much as I'd intended. An average of three pics a day will get me my goal before the end of the year.
- regain flexibility suffcient to suck my own dick. Seven months were required to achieve this when I was eighteen. I think five extra months for five years older is reasonable. That I already know the stretching that is required and know that it's possible makes this the most reasonable of goals this year.
So, those are my goals. All formed by little, daily steps.
On a totally unrelated matter, I think my dream cover (i.e. the song that I most wish would be covered by a specific band) is Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" as covered by Type O Negative. Just imagining Peter crooning "how does it feeeeeeeeeeeel?" gives me chills.
What's your dream cover?
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I prefer others to suck my dick...
I never make resolutions....to me it's junt another year...same old shit....
later
~E
[Edited on Dec 30, 2003 11:37AM]