As we say goodbye to 2008, let me wish everyone a happy 2009.
I do do New Year’s Resolutions, though I don’t always keep them. Here are three of mine for the year to come:
1. Grow comfortable with exercising less often. Most people resolve to exercise more, but I’ve had the opposite problem more often than not. Exercise is good, but not at the expense of other obligations. If I can work out four or five days a week, with only one of those workouts longer than two hours, I’ll still be fit but will have more time for others. And as long as I can control my anxiety about getting out of shape, I’ll make major progress.
2. Fritter away less time on Facebook.
3. Be better at friendship maintenance.
Feel free to share your resolutions in the comments.
I resolve to form opinions by other means besides this blog.
bwahaha…i tried to break away from facebook-and it sucked me in harder. you should make a facebook annonymous group…on facebook! hilarity!
That’s why it’s also called Facecrack.
I resolve to 1] not get involved with Facebook to start with, 2] fix that shower door, the pipe under the sink, the equalizer I pulled out of the trash, and the generator in the flashlight [or it least give these a fair try.]
Oh, and I’m going to get this place cleaned up…
I’m going to try and start a queer-friendly Bible study group in my home city, Belfast, as well as drinking more water and studying more.
Aideen, you remind me of my old Bible study group up in the SF Bay Area, where at one point someone raised the question of whether Jesus really predicted his death, or that got written into the story later, and another woman and I jumped in by pointing out that Harvey Milk had predicted the possibility that he would be assassinated, so why not Jesus?
Good luck with the queer-friendly Bible study.
Hell, Mr. Schwyzer, I was on rate my Professor ans saw you are number 1 in 2008 for being the hottest teacher….I was wonder how you feel about that? Seems odd.
Just curious, Vanessa
There are other awards I would rather have won, let’s put it that way, Vanessa! And FWIW, it may be flattering, but it seems odd to me too.
And Aideen, that’s a wonderful resolution! Let us know if we can help in any way.
1. restore my faith in God.
2. do better in school.
3. start a monthly deposit of money from each paycheck for surgery.
4. be in love again.
Lynn – that’s hilarious! Yeah I’m kinda worried about the orthodoxy of the group – I feel like the queer community’s been so hurt by the churches people are very suspicious about pretty much everything Bible-related so I’m caught between wanting it to be theologically orthodox but wanting to make space for people to question whatever they want. As far as stuff being written into the gospels later, though, all the evidence points to them being very strict eye-witness accounts!
And Hugo, thanks for your encouragement!
Happy New Year Hugo! One thing I want to try this year is “technology-free time-outs”. Haven’t yet decided if this will be an entire day, or just an hour or two; will involve no internet, no texting, no TV, etc. Friends who’ve tried this say their day seems less fragmented and they have more focus, which I could definitely use. I imagine this would help with stress reduction as well since you feel you’ve accomplished more and are less scatter-brained. Another, completely unrelated, resolution is to get back on the dating horse… it’s been nearly a year now after all…
I want to try to eat healthier and stick with my daily exercise. I also want to try to become comfortable in my own skin again and get my confidence back–it’s been almost 4 years since I had my youngest child and I still don’t feel like my body is my own again.
I also want to try to make some more time for just the husband and myself, hopefully without the kids. It seems like forever since we’ve spent any time together, just us.
1) Reduce my excess mass by at least ten kilos.
2) finish my MSc thesis and graduate.