Archive for January 2nd, 2007

Out with 2k6 and in with 2k7

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

Well, the year of our Lord 2006 has come to a close and with it another chap­ter has been writ­ten in the annals of the world. Looking back on 2006, I’d say that it was a pretty good year, full of good times and good peo­ple. 2006 was also a pretty big year for me in terms of life, career and those sorts of things; I closed the book on pro­fes­sion­ally becom­ing an engi­neer and under­took a new path that will even­tu­ally lead to a legal career. I’ve changed local­i­ties, mov­ing out to Minnesota for the time being; I expect that I’ll be back even­tu­ally but not until I fin­ish up law school and, besides, it’s nice hav­ing a change of scenery for a while. 2006 also marks the year that I brewed my first batch of beer, mark­ing the uptake of a new hobby that I hope to carry with me for the rest of my days. All in all, 2006 had a few downs, mostly relat­ing to mov­ing away from peo­ple, and quite a few ups, so I would say that over­all it was a pretty good year in the life of George.

As tends to be a sub­ject around this time of year, let’s talk about New Year’s res­o­lu­tions, shall we? Last year I resolved to 1) get bet­ter at meet­ing and inter­act­ing with new peo­ple, and 2) be friend­lier. In spite of for­get­ting about those res­o­lu­tions pretty quickly into the year, I’d say that I did a decent job of being friend­lier and a half-decent job of get­ting bet­ter at deal­ing with new peo­ple. Now that a brief analy­sis of last year is out of the way, let’s dive into res­o­lu­tions for this year:

  • Be more productive
  • Be more professional
  • Be more fis­cally responsible
  • Get bet­ter at fak­ing extroversion
  • Get bet­ter at fak­ing an alpha type personality
  • Exercise
  • Eat health­ier
  • Fence more
  • Play more video games

It’s a bit of a hefty list this year but that’s because there are ele­ments of my life that I’ve decided are long due for an over­haul. Let’s hope I can remem­ber my res­o­lu­tions this year or, fail­ing that, make good on them anyway.