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I don't like making resolutions.

Making a resolution, to me, is just setting me up for failure. I don't know why. It's like, as soon as I make a resolution, it becomes something I should be doing, and my inner child stamps his foot and goes NO!

I really need to kick that fucking brat's ass, you know?

Anyway, no resolutions.

But I'll make some goals. Maybe putting them here will shame me into keeping them.

Goal #1 for 2010: Fitness. Yeah, I know this is everybody's stupid resolution. The thing is, I've already been working on it, going to the gym and even sometimes watching what I eat. But my new goal is more specific: gym three times a week, and at least pay lip service to eating right. (Get it? Lip service? Eating? You'll note that "stop making puns" isn't anywhere near my goal list.)

Goal #2 for 2010: Organization. Keeping a to-do list on the computer instead of in my head; getting and keeping my work areas (home and office) clean and shit filed; all that may help me be less scattered.

Goal #3 for 2010: Publishing. I can't set a goal to "be published," because that's not in my power. But... okay... at least one submittal to a legitimate publication (that is, they pay me or at least give me a free magazine) per month.

To help with Goal #3 - which I suspect some of you share - I'm working on a group to help beat into submission each others' stories, poems, articles, chapters, and whatever you want to try to get published. (Get it? Beat into submission? Oh, I slay myself)

Help Me Get Published  (18+) ...and you, too! #1631278 by Robert Waltz

Join us if you want to get published, or even if you feel like helping out with reviews and whatnot. There are no obligations (except for me, to keep things going...)

So okay. I feel kind of dirty actually doing something as common as setting goals for the new year, but really, those have been my goals for some time now... I just haven't done as much as I could toward them.

And so it ends. Tomorrow - well, technically, later today - it's dinner, then Gogol Bordello concert (whoohoo!), and then it's next year.

It's too bad, really - I barely noticed 2009 go by. Maybe my goal should really be "don't let the year go by without you noticing it."

Yeah. Fat chance.

Thanks for reading, Happy New Year, and I'll be back in 2010 with more of what you come here for!