New School Year’s Resolutions
It’s September. Has been for a few days now. You know what that means? School is upon us all once more—well, those of us unfortunate enough to still be shackled to the education system, of course. My birthday also happens to fall in September, which would normally be a cause for celebration…however this year I hit the “big” two-oh and so I’m currently bricking it thinking about all the responsibility that (finally) being out of my teens will bring.
Anyway. If you don’t already know, I’m heading off to Spain in around two weeks for the Erasmus exchange and I’m suitably worried/unprepared/fks;ja;ifjojpoafjdia;ad. Yes, that was a keyboard smash in the middle of a blog post. No, I don’t care. Since I’m so overwhelmed by the stuff that I still have to do in prepartion for jetting off to Spain for a whole year, I’m doing the only logical thing I could think of—blogging about it. Thus, this list of New School Year’s Resolutions was born…
1. Stop procrastinating so goddamn much – I’m a fiend for putting things off until the very last minute. This has to stop. I’ll get around to it eventually.
2. Stop bitching Bitch less – I like talking about people behind their backs. Hell, a lot of people do. But it doesn’t make me feel any better, it drags other people down and one of these days I’m going to get caught by whomever I’m badmouthing—which won’t be pleasant for anyone involved.
3. Go to bed before midnight at least three nights a week – Self-explanatory, right? Right.
4. When a problem crops up, face it head-on straight away – A stitch in time saves nine…or something. Plus I’m not really doing myself any good by whining about my problems when I could be devoting that time to fixing them.
5. Win NaNoWriMo! – I’ve signed up for it. I just have to do it. Hopefully it’ll be a chance for me to get motivated and excited about doing something productive. It also ought to get me back into the swing of writing.
6. Less internet – I spend way too much time on forums, and AIM, and Twitter. OK, maybe not. Baby steps.
As with most, if not all, resolutions, I will probably “forget” all about these and do the exact opposite of what I set out to do. But in writing this, I can at least pretend to be trying to change, right?
I leave you with this xkcd comic, brought to my attention by @ratexla following a mini-rant on Facebook about how not-ready I am for adulthood. I was the one doing the ranting, just in case there was any doubt.
I don’t wanna grow up.
-Rowan
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