This is a few days early, I know, but there's nothing wrong with jumping the gun on resolutions, and anyway, I've been declaring most all of these, along with my general intent to improve the quality of my life, as my plans since sometime shortly after I got done with the newspaper. So you may have heard them before. I'm still going to try, maybe:

To find a job. For next year, and to find an internship for this semester, and I swear, I will finish the essay for my Columbia application (not grad school--just a summer program) by the end of break. Methods for achieving this goal may or may not include making ritual sacraficial offers of desperation to the gods of employment, begging friends, relatives and random strangers on the street and if times get very, very tough, talking to the idiots in Career Services.

To go to the gym, at least three times a week. This includes visits to the weight room, where I will not be put off by the smarmy guys who like to make faces at themselves in the mirrors and watch themselves as they work to tone their muscles. This does not include trips to the food trucks located directly outside the gym.

To figure out what exactly I am doing with and what I want from a number of relationships in my life. Namely, slightly too-ambigious-to-be-comfortable ones and/or ones that cause me great stress and annoyances. Also, to avoid additional ambigious and/or annoying entanglements in the new year.

To learn how to cook something other than pasta, chicken nuggets, hot dogs and my "rice dish." (Note to the uninformed: "rice dish" IS a very easy, cheap and relatively tasty way to eat--just not several days of a week. Ingredients include one cup water, one cup salsa, two cups minute rice, maybe ground beef, chicken and/or taco powder if you're feeling very extravagant. Serve on flour tortilla with cheese and sour cream.)

To have fun. Like, really, really have fun--not in some half-ass crappy way. Repeating second semester last year would possibly be a good way of doing this.

Update more. Hahaha.

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Replies: 4

Posted by nancy @ 01/01/2004 06:49 PM EST

FESTIVE FOUR!

Posted by todd @ 01/02/2004 05:08 PM EST

You know what's really sad? That when I was thinking of what to have for dinner tonight, I thought, "Hmmm... maybe I'll whip up some of Caroline's rice dish."

And it was certainly very easy, cheap, and relatively tasty.

However, I'm definitely going to get groceries tomorrow so we don't have to repeat this.

Posted by Shaun @ 01/04/2004 11:59 PM EST

Yes, I'm not suren what I like best about it -- that it's cheap or easy...

(I imagine there's some sort of joke to be made here about someone but I'll just let it pass.)

Posted by Caroline @ 01/06/2004 07:53 PM EST