: not a blog

29 dec 06

What is your goal for the new year. How will you impact the masses around you.

i was just going to shave my head, which i do periodically anyway (every month? every two months?). it's due for a shearing, but i'm putting it off until january 1st, because it seems appropriate to do it then.

other than that, my goal is to finish the coming semester, continue to work at papa johns without killing myself, another employee, a pedestrian, or my car, and then take a trip somewhere when school is over. i guess. that's sort of the default. "take a trip". maybe i should just buy six months' worth of mini ravioli and go sit under the basement sink for six months.

speaking of mini ravioli, maybe my goal for the new year should be to lose weight -- a lot of people resolve to do that on new year's eve. i think the resolve lasts a few days, usually. if you're fat you're fat, and if you're not you're not. but i talked about fatness in a way-back entry, so read it.

i do have some weights that are now probably 80% removed from the trunk of my car, so now it's just a matter of assembling the bench, arranging/discarding some of the junk in the workroom, and building my home gym. there's already a heavy bag there, upon which i frequently inflict my IRON PALM attack, when i'm down there anyway doing laundry.

if i get a tv and wii down there (i'd considered it, instead of the computer speakers), i could start charging membership fees. that's what i should do -- i should open a gym. i wonder how often private gyms go out of business. pretty often, probably.

but i'm not going to say "my new years resolution is to lose weight". if it happens, it happens. mainly, it's contingent upon my getting myself downstairs periodically. i could even use my ipod with headphones while i "worked out", but that'd require a trip out to the car to get it. that's really asking too much (trip downstairs, trip out to the car).

in case you hadn't noticed, i'm actually an extremely lazy person. i think the cause of laziness is overthinking -- you conceptualize all of the things you have to do, and it all seems so overwhelming that you just stay in your bedroom on the internet, reading a novel, watching CSI, or whatever it is you do when you're wasting time and hiding from reality, rather than do what seems to be this herculean task that's been constructed in your mind. of course, the truth is that once you start doing it -- take that first step -- the herculean task consists of only the thing that you're currently doing, and ceases to be herculean, unless the thing that you're doing is carrying bulk trash out to the curb, something i'm going to have to do on january 4th. this year, bulk trash includes a hopelessly warped box-spring, and several segments of backyard fence. who wants to come over and help?

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