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dmb
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
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 Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 10:18 pm Post subject: Resolution for the new year |
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| I will give up smoking. For about the tenth year on the trot. I'll probably last until about half past midnight. What about you? Any plans? |
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Deborann
Joined: 20 Oct 2003
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Location: Middle of the Middle Kingdom
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 1:00 am Post subject: |
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Learn enough Chinese to be able to talk to people.
Travel, travel, travel.
Read the erudite tomes I have meant to read for the last year, but passed up for murders and travelogues.
Have fun!  |
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Lynn
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: in between
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 1:33 am Post subject: |
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Detox my life! Get a life other than internet and junk food.
start yoga again
go to grad school get a masters in Japanese and become a proffesor or
go back to Hawaii and become a school teacher
take level 1 Jpes lang. prof. test
My goal is to top worrying about the future, regretting the past and focus on the now! |
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Irish
Joined: 13 Jan 2003
Posts: 371
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 1:54 am Post subject: |
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1. Finish my portfolio on time and thus finish up the MA.
2. Keep working on my pitiful Arabic.
3. Begin re-learning French.
I'm fairly confident about keeping resolution number one (it's now or never for that degree) but I might fall down on the other two. Lucky for me, I've got friends to keep me on the straight and narrow with nagging/encouragement. But it's up to me to make the most of their help. |
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struelle
Joined: 16 May 2003
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Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 5:55 am Post subject: Re: Resolution for the new year |
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| What about you? Any plans? |
2003 was a bummer, so next year can only get better. For resolutions I plan to buy a daytimer and organize my days, continue MA research, do some extensive travel, and find a new teaching post later in the year.
Steve |
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dduck
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Posts: 422
Location: In the middle
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| Lynn wrote: |
| My goal is to top worrying about the future, .... |
So, when are you getting married?
Only kidding! It's good to live in the present. I might try that too, but it sounds so hard! 
Even more flippantly, my resolution - I've just decided is to be more interesting. Like you said, Lynn, get a life outside of the internet. Wow, that is going to be hard! :O
Iain |
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guty
Joined: 10 Apr 2003
Posts: 365
Location: on holiday
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 5:51 pm Post subject: Re: Resolution for the new year |
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| struelle wrote: |
For resolutions I plan to buy a daytimer and organize my days, Steve |
What is a daytimer, I think I need one badly? |
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dreadnought
Joined: 10 Oct 2003
Posts: 82
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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1. Oh, giving up smoking of course. But the start of a New Year is just so damn stressful, and when I'm stressed I really need a...
2. Find the love of my life
3. Think of inventive ways of covering up my approaching baldness (shave it all off? Wear a hat?)
4. Read some books. I feel I'm getting dumber by the day
5. Try and learn some Russian |
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fat_chris
Joined: 10 Sep 2003
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Location: Beijing
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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I resolve to give up resolutions.
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donfan
Joined: 31 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 1:37 am Post subject: |
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| give up smoking - This year I cut back from a pack a day to a pack a week - now just have to quit altogther. |
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Dr.J
Joined: 09 May 2003
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Location: usually Japan
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| "daytimer" = watch |
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Roger
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| Write fewer posts on eslcafe forums! |
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Steiner
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
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Location: Hunan China
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 6:27 am Post subject: |
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I was going to use the quote button and point out some absurdities above but instead I'll resolve to ignore trolls on Dave's.
I also resolve not to be devoured by otters, knowingly have a sex-change operation, or eat stinky tofu. If it comes down to an inevitable choice between the three, however, you may refer to me as Ms. Steiner. |
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Wolf
Joined: 10 May 2003
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Location: Middle Earth
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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1. Continue on with my MA.
2. Go back to Japan, if I can swing a decent enough gig. Actually, the big resolution here is to find a community that I fit into better, but it's looking like that means Japan.
3. Visit home for next Christmas, provided that I have time and finances left over after resolutions 1 and 2. |
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Lynn
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Posts: 696
Location: in between
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| Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2003 2:49 am Post subject: |
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| dduck wrote: |
| Lynn wrote: |
| My goal is to top worrying about the future, .... |
So, when are you getting married?
Only kidding! It's good to live in the present. I might try that too, but it sounds so hard!
Iain |
Hey Iain, you didn't hear the news? We tied the knot on November 24th! Can you believe I'm a married woman now? hee-hee! I still blush when I say "my husband"  |
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