New Years Resolutions

go to the library: lets be real. I have eight classes next semester and I waste all my time when I’m at home. go to the library every night, and visit friends afterwards around campus.

exercise 18 times a month: its not that much. especially since I’m moving to France, where everyone is a health freak. cite: www.clubmedgym.com. also, I need something to balance sitting in the library for so many hours a day, or I’m going to die. really.

watch the news, and read it too: I think its pretty sad that I know more about fucking Machiavelli than a lot of current events. now that I’ve discovered the video-podcast (vodcast), I can watch news. I’ve subscribed to BBC, iTELE, and CNN, so now it should be pretty easy to update myself every day. also, I should regularly be checking up on elpais.com, lemonde.com and aljazeera.com for news that affects the regions that I’m apparently studying.

don’t waste lunch breaks: next semester, I’m seriously going to have two and four hour lunch breaks. I need to stop walking around campus listening to my iPod pretending that I have nothing to do – I should just go to Butler for every reasonable lunch break I have and do my work then so I have a life at night.

cook tortilla española and drink pimms & lemonade: once a week because these are my favourite things. no more explanation needed.

read for the sake of reading: I will read these books this year, and not because I have to: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, L’etranger by Albert Camus, Mémoires d’Hadrien by Margerite Yourcenar, Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez, and Doña Perfecta by Benito Perez Galdés

go out at least once a week, more if you have your shit together: I just need to get faced more often, it’s probably good for the work ethic.