dear 2008, get fucked.

Wow. That year warn't no good. "2008: Plague Year"

No point in laying out all the bad stuff that went down. Instead, lets just call it a potent dose of reality that put me a little closer to "my place".

I had a bunch of goals, as listed in this here post. This year I came really close on the fitness ones (and blew the pull-ups away); barely even thought about the study goals; read about 1/3 of the books (got a couple days left to add to the tally there); and the other four were a failure too.

So with a little further ado, my last resolution list! Like I said in the last post, I'm closing up shop here. From here on, I'll probably make occasional photo posts from my phone or somethin... but don't expect any more of my sloppily written blather. I'm putting that somewhere else, somewhere anonymous. Needless to say, I'm not gonna point the way.

/ado.

I'll fill these in as a think them out, but here's the broad outline for the year's goal.

Fitness:
100 pushups in one go (doing about 45 right now).
50 pull ups
10 pull ups with 40kg burden
15k in 1 hr (Ive never run more than 10k).
110 or 120kg bench press x 1o (I was doing 90kg x 5 two weeks ago).

Japanese:
Kanji Kentei 3kyuu (gotta make a realistic goal here, or never succeed).
Something else concrete.

More alcohol:
learn to drink wine
drink some scotch... learn to drink it?

Housekeeping:
something concrete

Grooming:
one haircut every month
Something else concrete

Savings:
A set number for the year... but I'm not sharing that with yall.

Re-stop biting my nails.

Books, English:
Henry James (something)
Saul Bellow (something)
King James Bible
Ulysees
I, Claudius
Catch 22
rabbit, run
thomas mann (death in venice + something else)
faulkner (something)
100 years of solitude

Books, Japanese:
More Dazai (I like him quite a bit)
koizora
The last 2 akutagawa winners
kokoro
a modernized tale of Genji
some women's manga (what the fudge are they thinking?)
more to follow


I'll fill in the concrete parts as I think them up

Turn out the lights, set yourself on fire, say goodnight.

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be travelling on, now,
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see.
But, if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, I can't change.

Bye, bye, its been a sweet love.
Though this feeling I can't change.
But please don't take it badly,
'Cause Lord knows I'm to blame.
But, if I stayed here with you girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you'll never change.
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, I can't change.
Lord help me, I can't change.







Saa, 'bout time we packed it in, don't ya reckon? Lately, I have felt a bit like blogging, but I done wrecked this one up. Next blog, I'ma try to put a bit more effort and a bit more "me" into my writing... and a bit more stuff I don't necessarily want my acquaintances to know about.

I believe I'll make one last entry on this ol' feller, before sending him to a big farm upstate.

One last "resolutions/ resolve" post.

Can't sleep

Testing out iPhone features instead.