December 31, 2005
Year in review
At the start of this year, I made some resolutions. I even reviewed my miserable progress with them back in July. So, the burning question, as the year end draws near... how did I do?
- To get a bit fitter.
- Oh well, there's always next year, eh? My indulgent, sedentary lifestyle continues to take its toll.
- To drink less.
- Working in a pub hasn't helped here. Still, now I have something to blame, in the form of our ongoing drink-sodden Armageddon. Ahem. Strictly the resolution was actually to drink less beer, mind, and I've achieved this by developing a taste for bacardi and coke...
- Cook more often, and more interestingly.
- Actually, since moving into my current shared house, I think I've done this, to some extent. Not as much as I planned, but a bit. I'm claiming this one as done.
- To do more OpenGuides stuff.
- The Open Guide to Nottingham now has around 600 pages, which is something. Still haven't unleashed my rusty perl-kludging skills on the code at all, though. Half a point.
- Get out of (bad) debt.
- Ha. Ahahahaha. Not as such.
- Decide what to do with my life after university.
- I'm pretty certain I want to run a pub, eventually, as many (read: all 5) of my readers already know. I don't think I'm ready to do it straight from uni, though, financially or personally, so I need an interim plan. It's vaguely there, but not concrete. Half a point again.
- Work harder at uni, and get a reasonable degree.
- Well, I'm pretty much on course for a 2:2 whatever happens now; not really what I wanted, but it's what I seem to be getting. Given I averaged a third last year I might be generous and take half a point on this one.
- Blog more interesting stuff, not just tedious resolutions and progress reports.
- I'm writing this aren't I? On the other hand I seem to be getting more hits now than I was before, so I think I'm going to arrogantly claim this one as achieved. I need all the marks I can get at this point...
2 done, and 3 half-done, out of 8. It's better than nothing, right?
This year I've started going to watch live bands on a semi-regular basis, as well as discovered a bunch of bands I like that I hadn't heard of, which I might get round to doing a separate entry on. I've been more political than ever before, leafletting for the Lib Dems during the election, and corresponding a few times with my local (Labour) MP. I've seen a record number of my friends (including the first of my school friends) get married, and some of my friends even went so far as to reproduce. And of course, I'm now just 6 months away from stopping being a student, and needing to join the real world. Eek!
Next year, I won't be doing "resolutions" as such, so don't worry, you won't have to slog through this drivel again. ;-) Here's wishing you all a happy and prosperous 2006!
Posted by James at 14:45
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I think you've posted some interesting discussion-worthy things this year, though I can't remember if you've done that in previous years too :-)
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