New Year's Resolutions Update

• Eat Little Sugar: Not doing great, yet. Eating less sugar, but that's not what I set out to do. On the other hand, I've gone on three agressive walks in the past two days (one of them with 1/3rd jogging).
• Take a College Course: Holy shit, I registered! My declared major is "Biotechnology", but the first course on that track (Chemistry) requires math and writing, and I need to jump through hoops to prove I got that at U-Mass. As a result, I decided to go with my second (and as-yet-undeclared) major, and take Drawing I. In fact, I just now paid for the course. I am officially a College Student, once again. I even went to the campus today and talked to an adviser, who was quite helpful. ...To be honest, this is freaking me out. First class is January 14th, and it's on the sub-optimal Montoya Campus. Again, I say: holy shit.
  
• Learn Hindi (for Real):it's amazing what flash cards will do for your vocabulary. I made some yesterday for "Lesson 1.2", which is where I've been stuck, and after 3 goes through the "deck", I was able to read the chapter text without looking anything up. As a result, I've learned how surprised Pratap was that his room as large, clean, and airy. He was also shocked that the cupboards were empty. I'm on the edge of my seat!
• Buy no more video games this year: I even canceled my pre-order of "Force Unleashed". How's that for willpower?
  

Registered

In the spirit of "take immediate action":

Welcome! You have been conditionally admitted to CNM pending final review of your on-line application and CNM program and placement policies for SPRING 2008.

(Yes, I just did this moments ago.) ...Hopefully, one new year's resolution will be checked off the list soon. ; )

Resolute

Though I am surrounded by people that "don't believe in resolutions", I myself am inordinately fond of them. I enjoy challenging myself. I like to think I can make changes for the better. Thus, I welcome any chance I can get to adopt new resolutions, including the New Year. I've been ambitious this year, and won't be terribly disappointed if it takes longer than a year... at least, for most of these:

• Eat very little sugar.
• No new video games this year.
• Find an appropriate way to exercise.
  
• Take at least one college course. Preferably two.
  
• Watch a Hindi film and understand it.
  
• Have a conversation in Spanish.
  
• Learn the writing systems, basic grammar, and 1000-ish words of Arabic, Conversational Sign, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, and Spanish.
• Read the news in German, daily.
  
• Produce another album (music).
• Draw. A lot.
• Shed a couple layers of ego.