Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all beloved readers.

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2009 has begun for me with my left ear blocked up, thus rendering me half deaf. It’s been like this for nearly a week and it’s really getting on my nerves.

To make matters worse, I can’t even drink my troubles away, as I’m trying to go the whole month of January without alcohol (excluding the early hours of the 1st, as NYE celebrations carried over). This will not be easy, but a friend of mine is trying it too, so at least I won’t be alone in my quest. I’m waiting until I start sweating and shaking profusely with the withdrawal.

I’m back to college on Monday. I was reminded informed of this the other day and was shocked, I was convinced we’d have more time off. There were so many things I wanted to do over the holidays, and I’ve done nothing.

Sick, half deaf, sober, returning to college too soon: all in all, fuck you 2009. I want 2008 back. That guy wasn’t amazing or anything, but at least I knew him. Better the devil you know.

The turning of the year brings a sense of hope and change. People make resolutions. Everyone’s gonna be different, everything’s gonna be great. The cynic in me thinks pretty negatively about all this kind of shite, but in the end I think it’s handy. In the same way Lent is handy. I remember a friend in college talking about giving up things for Lent. He’s not religious at all and I asked, why not just pick any random month (or forty days) to give up something? He explained how Lent has nothing to do with religion for him, and there’s probably plenty of atheists out there giving up things for Lent. It’s an excuse or a reason to do something. A little extra push to do something, that otherwise you might just think “What’s the point?”.

New Year Resolutions and New Year goals are like that. If there’s something you know you should stop doing, or something you should start doing, why not just fucking do it now, or last month, or last week? It’s hard to explain I guess. A feeling of a fresh and clean slate, a reason to change bad habits and begin new ones. And, if you stick to your resolution, you’ll know exactly how long it’s been since you last smoked, or been doing 50 sit-ups every morning.

Setting tasks and goals and actually writing them down (or typing them up) is generally the only way I really get things done. Otherwise my free time is an unstructured mess and the only thing I achieve is making my own lunch, which is usually something shit like beans on toast or microwave pasta.

I had a notepad file (I fucking love Notepad, and have an inexplicable loyalty to it) typed up with some things I needed to do. Some were short term (”Tidy room”) and some were longer term. But of course, my laptop froze and had to be shut down, and I hadn’t saved the file (MS Word > Notepad in this scenario, I’m ashamed to admit). Now I still haven’t gotten around to my only task - “rewrite tasks”. The word “task” seems really weird to me now. Task. Task task task.

I’m really rambling now, so I’ll end here. Happy new year!

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