New year’s resolutions
- Never miss a day of language learning practice. If I am deep in the woods with no cell service, I will grudgingly resort to climbing a nearby mountain or tree so that I can get service and do my Duolingo up there. The attitude towards learning should be one of devotion rather than obligation.
- Stay strong, physically. Consistent weight lifting and calisthenics, time on a bike, walks. Situps n’ pushups every morning upon waking and every evening before bed. Climbing.
- Write
- Show up for friendships/connections consistently. Try to be understanding and have a sense of humor. Listen well. Be present. Trust as much as possible, which is a challenging thing to do.
- Brush teeth, wash hair and face, make bed, get to work on time. “Every day is all we have.”
- Do the pasta quest
- I have got to get weirder. I have got to read and write weirder stuff that breaks more taboos and subverts more expectations. This is usually the best art anyway.
- Gain 20lbs of pure thigh muscle. Go up a pants size.
- Go slightly feral and do mushrooms by myself in a hammock in the woods which is not something I have ever done before and which would certainly not have been a transformative experience for me even if I had fallen out of the hammock onto a forest floor covered in poison ivy in the summer while I was actively hallucinating and then written a tiny manifesto about how to be properly in love with people who aren’t mine
- I want to dye my hair blue, and then let it fade to green.
- Drink black coffee
- Eat vegetables. Start the tradition of baby carrots before every meal. Because they are delicious.
- Play some music. Make some songs.
- Put my phone away and go to sleep on time or maybe read a book