New Year's Resolutions 2006
In no particular order of importance, here they are:
1) Do the yoga sun salutation every morning.
2) Keep a day planner for organization.
3) Write up and adhere to a set budget for life in New York.
4) Keep my room in a generally orderly fashion.
5) Turn every assignment in on time.
6) Be on time.
7) Be nicer to people.
8) Make the Dean's List.
9) Recycle.
10) Depend on technology less.
11) Keep a blessings journal to remind me of everything good.
12) Read 20 new books that have nothing to do with acting or school.
13) Learn more about politics.
14) Set aside some amount of free time every day, even if it is very small.
15) Be more helpful.
16) Call Mom at least three times a week.
17) Improve posture.
18) Be more available in my work at studio.
19) Take advantage at least once a week of something only New York has to offer.
20) No more smoking. At all. Ever.
21) Be more reliable.
22) Make enough time at least once a week to do something really fun with friends.
23) Think before I speak.
24) Don't miss class unless I'm very, very sick or contagious.
25) Tell the people that I care about people more freely that I love them.
Since I plan on taking number 10 especially seriously, this will be my last post. Unless something huge happens, I don't plan on using this journal anymore, except to read up on everyone else every couple of weeks, since staying in touch can be so hard otherwise. No more LJ, AIM, or Facebook. I will, of course, still check my email regularly for school reasons. If anyone doesn't have that address, it's elp238@nyu.edu. And my cell is 502.387.9658.
I sure do have my work cut out for me on the academic resolutions. Especially number 8. I've never gotten all A's in my life...
Still, I love the freshness of that feeling of hope. It's like Reconciliation. Every past fuck-up and failure is absolved, and you're left with nothing but a clean slate so long as you're willing to try again. I'd rather go from hope to failure a thousand times than to lose fresh hope even once. What's the fun in living if you've already given up?
"Experience is depressing, and it would be a mistake to be willing to learn from it." -Edward Bond
Happy New Years, everyone. Let's make 2006 a year to remember.
1) Do the yoga sun salutation every morning.
2) Keep a day planner for organization.
3) Write up and adhere to a set budget for life in New York.
4) Keep my room in a generally orderly fashion.
5) Turn every assignment in on time.
6) Be on time.
7) Be nicer to people.
8) Make the Dean's List.
9) Recycle.
10) Depend on technology less.
11) Keep a blessings journal to remind me of everything good.
12) Read 20 new books that have nothing to do with acting or school.
13) Learn more about politics.
14) Set aside some amount of free time every day, even if it is very small.
15) Be more helpful.
16) Call Mom at least three times a week.
17) Improve posture.
18) Be more available in my work at studio.
19) Take advantage at least once a week of something only New York has to offer.
20) No more smoking. At all. Ever.
21) Be more reliable.
22) Make enough time at least once a week to do something really fun with friends.
23) Think before I speak.
24) Don't miss class unless I'm very, very sick or contagious.
25) Tell the people that I care about people more freely that I love them.
Since I plan on taking number 10 especially seriously, this will be my last post. Unless something huge happens, I don't plan on using this journal anymore, except to read up on everyone else every couple of weeks, since staying in touch can be so hard otherwise. No more LJ, AIM, or Facebook. I will, of course, still check my email regularly for school reasons. If anyone doesn't have that address, it's elp238@nyu.edu. And my cell is 502.387.9658.
I sure do have my work cut out for me on the academic resolutions. Especially number 8. I've never gotten all A's in my life...
Still, I love the freshness of that feeling of hope. It's like Reconciliation. Every past fuck-up and failure is absolved, and you're left with nothing but a clean slate so long as you're willing to try again. I'd rather go from hope to failure a thousand times than to lose fresh hope even once. What's the fun in living if you've already given up?
"Experience is depressing, and it would be a mistake to be willing to learn from it." -Edward Bond
Happy New Years, everyone. Let's make 2006 a year to remember.