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Resolution tracking
December 25, 2006 ( life )
Last year:
--Grad School AND THE FUTURE: Over the course of the next year, I need to narrow down my focus and start sniffing out realistic and enjoyable job opportunities.--Activism: Also, focus down on a few topics/causes for real activism. Give the ACLU and EFF some money, and make this more of a priority than it has been. Of course, continue occasional blog/rants filtering through BBC, DailyKOS and similar.
--DC: If I stick with international dev, DC will probably be a decently important city in my life, so I need to make peace with it and find more things about it that I really and truly like.
--Travel: I also want to get out of the country again, I've been gettin itchy. There are still-nebulous plans to head down to Nica this summer, and I need to work with my job and find a travel grant or two to get that to work out.
--Keep in better contact: a LOT of people have kinda fallen off my radar. Basically everyone not on LJ or IM... I need to be a bit better about staying in touch.
--Fitness: The last month of finals and projects and cold and thanksgiving really didn't do much good for me. I've been good about staying active in DC and walking a lot, but I need to work on eating less and maybe getting some non-walking exercise in.
Grad School and FUTURE - some limited progress on future. Still mostly a process of elimination, a few leads. I've made some peace with DC - living in Granola Park has helped, and finding a few gems of DC life on my own have also helped. I still haven't made it to any good protests, but gave the EFF some cash and tried to give the ACLU some, too, but their credit card system was b0rken, and I never got around to it.
As for travel, I made it out to Cali in May for a wedding and Nica in August for 2 great weeks of hard work and great exploration. That scratched the travel itch enough for... well, not very long, really.
I kept in some decent contact. but that faded out as I got buried in books during the semester(s). Caught up with lots of Peace Corps folk at the May wedding.
Fitness came and went. I used the weight bench we had in my old place on occasion, but didn't really do great. I recovered from last T'giving/xmas, but then the spring semester really dragged on me. Summer was good and this fall I've been reasonably active, too. Having more control over my kitchen has led to better eating habits and grocery lists, and my new neighborhood is much more walkable, all of which help.
So all in all I did OK on last year. Partially because I set reasonable goals :) All the more reason to keep that up. Y2k7 resolutions coming soon!
Posted by griffjon at December 25, 2006 10:22 PM
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