It's January 3rd and I'm only just getting around to making new years resolutions, which admittedly is not a positive indicator of my ability to adhere to them. Last year I made the lazy resolution to watch more TV. But this year everything is different, so I've made a whole list of the damn things, which -- only because it's necessary for the horrifically contrived title to work -- numbers six items. I think that declaring them publically will increase my level of commitment, so here they are:
This year I will:
- get more exercise. I'm in a different situation now: whereas a couple of months ago I would walk to or from the campus a couple of times a week on average, now (until I find work) I can theoretically spend days without ever having an excuse to leave the house. Obviously this is no good for body or mind, so I'll go for more random walks in random places.
- read more books. I have the awful but difficult-to-break habit of staying on the PC until I'm sleepy, so I never really give myself the chance to read before bed (or, indeed, at any other time).
- post more often on the weblog -- I'm not going to specify a frequency, because sitting around thinking 'what shall I blog today?' doesn't produce good results, but I want the site to be as active again as it has been in the past.
- complete the other website I've been developing off-and-on for months, and dedicate appropriate time to it. Ah hell, let's put a date on that. It'll 'go live' on 1st February.
By the end of this year I will:
- have finished one creative project in my own time -- anything from a Neverwinter Nights module to a novel.
- have discovered which profession I'd like to spend the rest of my life doing, and will have started along that road.
I'll add a seventh resolution for good measure:
- I will never again write a blog entry title as lame as this one.
Come with me on a journey this year, dear reader, as I give up on these resolutions one by one and end the year in exactly the same state as I started it!