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The Obligatory New Years Resolutions Thread

Our Lady of The Two Towers

15:09 / 27.12.02

Do you make them? Can you keep them? And if you do, what are they?

On a personal level, more exercise.

On a professional level, work harder, and try and be nicer to people that come in to work, even if they are fuckwits.

On a Barbelith level, get more involved with the discussions outside comics, TV and music. This is going to involve such things as when theory bitches bring up stuff that it is expected that everyone knows already challenging this, though whether this is by risking derailing the thread, a seperate thread (I'm wondering about setting up a kind of 'Questions and Clarifications' thread in the Head Shop for this) or just PMing the person involved.

Matthew Fluxington

15:13 / 27.12.02

My New Year's resolution will be to make sure that I do not drive anyone on Barbelith to suicide by criticizing them for using homophobic language.

Tezcatlipoca

16:29 / 27.12.02

No more procrastinating. Starting tomorrow.

gingerbop

16:32 / 27.12.02

1:learn 2 ride my unicycle,
2:be happy,
3

ass my exams.

Notice what is last on the list, ie. least important.
If i do the 1st one, i can join the circus and it wont matter how dumb i am! Luv, Lauren xx

gingerbop

16:34 / 27.12.02

PS that was supposed 2 b "pass my exams" but it turned in2 a smiley by accident. Maybe "Ass my exams" is a more apt, and ultimately more keep-able resolution to make! xx

Papess

16:35 / 27.12.02

Gingerbop:

You really didn't mean - ass your exams, right?

Papess

16:36 / 27.12.02

OOooh, nevermind!

Tryphena Absent

16:59 / 27.12.02

I don't make New Years resolutions because I can never think of any that I actually want to keep. I could try to give something up but I'm really too lazy, maybe I'll throw things away that I don't really need or are ugly - see can't even find any criteria for throwing things in the bin. Awful.

that

17:41 / 27.12.02

Work really really hard in school, assuming I get in.
Lose about 2 stone.
Get more exercise.

Mourne Kransky

17:46 / 27.12.02

1. Relax more
2. Do less
3. Just chill
4. Get fatter
5. Eat lots of crap
6. Avoid exercise
7. Smoke lots
8. Drink lots
9. Smile more
10. Stop worrying so much

I think I have finally come up with a list of resolutions which I may keep...

Goodness Gracious Meme

17:49 / 27.12.02

Don't really do 'em any more, but have a vague overall plan of 'sortingmylifeoutandgettingmoving'...

which'll do for the next ten years' worth...

Shortfatdyke

18:04 / 27.12.02

Mine are a bit vague at the moment but will involve learning more about local folklore and magick, getting most of my novel written, trying to make some kind of living from doing art.

And I'll be starting the new year with a new tattoo. Might even be done by the time I come to London next weekend. Woot!

Persephone

19:03 / 27.12.02

*enviously eyeing Xoc's list*

Lose 10 lbs. by the Ides of March. Also, lose temper less often.

Although looking at these together, I think I won't start on the second one until after Ides March.

The Strobe

20:25 / 27.12.02

This year, I'm making serious ones I can try and keep.

1. Fix myself. Or at least do my best to: be happy. And be slightly more fun at times.
2. Get a damn 2:1 in my finals.
3. Stop procrastinating and learn to concentrate, though that may be part of (1).

There are others, but they're the dumb ones you make and never do anything about. I'm serious about the above, though.

w1rebaby

20:43 / 27.12.02

My resolutions go about the same as Xoc's, but are less likely to be achieved. Apart from the smoking and drinking and eating crap.

Sort of...

1. just fucking chill, won't you?
2. look, just relax
3. seriously
4. you're just making yourself ill, it's not worth it
5. and go to the doctor too
6. I'm not joking
7. don't spend so much time on the net either, it's bad for you
8. and don't eat all that American shite
9. you know it makes you feel sick
10. christ, you're such a miserable bastard, lighten up

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:18 / 27.12.02

DO. SOME. MORE. FUCKING. WRITING.

Old brown-eye is back

22:24 / 27.12.02

Get a new job, maybe.
Cross some more names off of the list.
Travel.

Old brown-eye is back

22:26 / 27.12.02

Oh, and -

Read more.
Go to more fetish clubs.

wembley can change in 28 days

00:03 / 28.12.02

Every year I make 25 resolutions and cross them off as I hit them. Yearly average is I hit about 8 - but let's face it, reaching 30% of a bunch of resolutions is way more encouraging than getting 30% out of one measly resolution. This year for the first time ever I'm going to reach my books read goal - and I'm sure I'll have no idea what to do with myself. I'm also within a couple of films of my 50-films-this-year goal.
As for the 2003 set, I haven't decided on them yet.

Tryphena Absent

01:19 / 28.12.02

Oh, got some that I actually have to follow! Ask the doctor how to get rid of the eczema on my neck. Read about Frege's logical theory. Graduate. Try sushi and find out where they sell those designer shoes damn cheap when they're out of season.

05:25 / 28.12.02

I never make new years resolutions, but fuck it, this thread has inspired me. I'm going to learn Spanish, even if it kills me.

The Return Of Rothkoid

05:32 / 28.12.02

Work on my magick. Write more. Get drunk more often. Get that band together. Start that whole "wardrobe by Cave" thing. Move the fuck back out. Lose more weight. Have more sex. Read more books. Try to get over the fucking hump. Let it go. Let it go. Let it go.

Once more, with feeling.

Oh, and I think there might be a "do more yoga/fencing" thing in there, too. Definitely the former, and hopefully the latter.

And one more. I will be able to do a spot-on version of Django Reinhardt's "Minor Swing" before this year is out. That and Joplin's "The Easy Winners", arranged for geetar. I fucking will.

pointless and uncalled for

09:15 / 28.12.02

1. fail miserably to be even a pathetic excuse for a human being
2. fuck up over and over again
3. keep a shitty job
4. not over extend myself.

And I bet that I'm the only one that keeps their resolutions.

Trijhaos

13:43 / 28.12.02

Stop acting like a human doormat. Sure being helpful and nice is commendable but sometimes I just need to say no.

Find gainful employment. Getting passed over for jobs I can do better than 95% of the people working at some of the places I've applied at pisses me off.

Learn to ask for help when I need it. Trying to work things out for myself is all well and good, but the world isn't going to end if I ask someone else to give me a hand.

Socialize. Go up and talk to people. If I say "Hello" to someone they aren't going to turn around and bite my head off or zap me with a stun gun.

The Apple-Picker

14:21 / 28.12.02

I'm more successful with any resolution if I focus on process, so to the end of finally running a marathon (training was derailed last year when I became sick enough that I could barely walk, let alone run), I will increase my time by 10% every week, maintaining for a week every fourth week. I will also add a fourth run to my three-run-a-week schedule.

I will improve/maintain foreign language skills by giving no less than one hour a week to extra-curricular language study.

To the end of writing more, I will write one rough draft for a poem a week and hone at least one of them in a month.

I will stop sitting on my stuff and submit some of it already--let's say that I'll query/submit to three magazines by my birthday, and then three more from then to next Christmas.

I will skip no more than one class a week in the coming academic quarter. I think this is going to be the hardest one to keep.

No star here laces

14:43 / 28.12.02

1. Smoke less weed.
2. Smoke no cigarettes.
3. Learn a new skill (probably joinery)
4. Learn to fight
5. Go to more political events

Hmm. Looks ominously close to "turn into a father figure" when I write 'em all down like that...

So:

6. Listen to more pirate radio
7. Learn to scratch properly

aus

22:14 / 28.12.02

1. Read a book. Honestly.
2. Have my fingers repaired (several minor injuries).
3. Defeat aging, or at least stave it off for another year.

I make resolutions all the time, not just at the beginning of a new year. Don't we all? Some I keep, some I don't.

000

22:15 / 28.12.02

I don't normally make and keep new years resolutions, after all, why should desires be kept solely at the end of a year -- but this year I have one.

I will move to Copenhagen by the end of the next 2 months. I will. I don't care how difficult it will be, moving school, getting a proper place and fuck, but I will. Where I am now is going to be my spiritual death, if I don't.

Seth

11:29 / 29.12.02

1) Record an album in a month, regardless of quality. NaCDReMo!
2) Choose whether I'm going to go through heartache forming a decent band, or jack in the lot sell my gear and become an NLP practitioner.
3) Sort out some messy relationship stuff.
4) Start work on my misguided Viral Scripture concept. May have to be a work in progress, though.
5) Keep up the magickal shit.

I think we should split into pairs and pester each other until we achieve the stuff on our lists. Set each other time goals and stuff. What do you think? PM me if you want to be my motivational *other half.*

Less searchable M0rd4nt

11:45 / 29.12.02

Same as always: Get another tatt.

Matthew Fluxington

11:51 / 29.12.02

Two things -

I'm going to try my best to not post around here when I'm in a shit mood and/or sick, because that always seems to end up with myself being very nasty to some people, and of course, I do not want to drive them to suicide.

The second, more important thing is that I absolutely must make money this year, in whatever ways I possibly can. I really need to start acting like an adult in that respect, I need to get over a lot of my small paralyzing fears that keep from being more active in pursuing jobs and money. I need to realize that being friendly to strangers and aggressively trying to find employment and opportunities is not necessarily a slimy and evil thing, even if that "ambition makes you look pretty ugly" bit from "Paranoid Android" is always running through my head whenever I halfheartedly try to ask favors of anyone.

illmatic

11:59 / 29.12.02

My main one is going to be: get outside more, enjoy nature a bit.

T'other: Earn more money. I'm with you, Flux.

Weird - haven't posted for a few days, right out the swing of it.

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