I Remain Resolute

 

2008.

I realize I am late for a post of this kind.

 

• Visit 10 countries
  • It feel silly to quantify it, so let’s just say the theme of 2008 is travel.

• Get mistaken for a native
  • I want a harried tourist to approach me, speak loudly and slowly like I am retarded and ask for directions. I want to reply in flawless Italian, smile and scoff at “stupid americans” as they retreat.

• Go dancing in a red dress and have a charmed night I will remember when I am old as the epitome of when I was young
  • Yup.

• See either/all: Spoon, Girl Talk, Josh Ritter (again and again), Kings of Convenience, Jaymay
  • Whoo! Concerts. So many of the bands I like are Nordic or British and there’s nothing like a roadtrip (or Eurorail) to see a band

• Avoid relationships for the sake of relationships, but if love comes knocking, don’t be so stubborn
  • I swore to stay single on my 21st birthday, and eight months later that has worked out pretty well. I won’t declare a year of that, but it probably will happen anyway. Recently, it has been brought to my attention, like thawing out after a long winter, that it is possible for me to want to be with someone again.

• Graduate from college
  • This isn’t one of those things you put on a to-do list just so you can cross it off, like “take a shower” (don’t laugh, katie and I actually do that). I only need to pass one class to graduate and have you heard my italian?

• Keep up with my blog and posting photos
  • Not for anyone else, just to have record of life, to be able to laugh at how important I think something was, or look back and realize it was. Also, as redemption for the 372 journals I’ve started and discarded

• Make decisions about my future (graduate school? Move to arizona? Life in va?) based not on parental leanings, money, “what I should do” and so on. Life is going by way too quickly to try and please anyone but myself
  • I have a feeling my decision about graduate school will be answered for me by two thin envelopes and one thick but either way, I want to follow my own lead

• Don’t cut my hair (for a year!)
  • I need to stop cutting my own hair. I also have a theory that like my little pony hair, it can’t grow past a certain length. Let’s test that out.

• The miscellaneous intangibles: Stop overanalyzing, learn my limit alcohol wise, test them everywhere else, floss, write more letters, start celebrating my own holidays and stop wasting the monies.