Just because essentially nobody can read it is no excuse for dispensing with tradition. It's my new year's resolutions for 2013! Previous installments can be found here. And as always, we start with evaluating my performance vis-a-vis last year's list:
Met: 1 (several times over!), 2, 3, 4 (not yet, anyway, as far as I know), 5, 6, 7, 9 (just this past weekend!), 10, 11, 14.
Missed: 8, 15.
"Well, technically I met this....": 12, 13.
Unfortunately, despite a frankly superb showing by the numbers, number 8 looms quite large and casts a big shadow over the rest of the list. So I come into the new year more demoralized than I can remember in some time. But it's the sort of thing I'll have to just push through. It will come.
Anyway, to the new year's resolutions:
1) Find employment post-clerkship. (Met)
2) Be at peace with the employment I have post-clerkship. (Missed)
3) Move the big screen TV into the living room. (Met)
4) Make significant progress on another article. (Met)
5) Keep the blog's blood pumping long enough so it can return in full force when the clerkship ends. (Pick 'em)
6) Feel decently competent in an additional area of law beyond my current specialty. (Pick 'em)
7) Watch either The Two Towers or Return of the King with Jill. (Missed)
8) Have people over to watch a boxing event. (Missed -- I think, but don't actually remember)
9) Present Our Divine Constitution somewhere. (Missed)
10) Try the cooperative multiplayer in Portal 2. (Met)
11) Attend the Carleton Reunion! (Met)
12) Crack the 200 follower mark on Twitter. (Met)
13) Find my copies of War and XPs and No Cure for the Paladin Blues. (Met -- amazingly enough, since I didn't find them until I moved to DC)
14) Don't be jealous of other people's successes, even when things aren't falling into place for me. (Met -- I can honestly say this)
Congrats on all the #1s! And fear not regarding #8. What is "Our Divine Constitution"... did you become a Mormon?
ReplyDeleteWhy do you want more Twitter followers? You seem to use it more to communicate with people individually (which is also how I started on it with my personal account) than as a sort of broadcast medium (which is now mostly how I use all my accounts).
Anyway, I think the average person on Twitter tends to hit some kind of natural follower level; mine is 212, no matter how much a friend with many thousands of followers tries to promote me. But also he knows me from blogging circa 2003 and is way more forgiving of my Twitter abuses than you or most other users are.