2003-01-01 - 11:05 a.m.

So far, the new year's off to a bang. I had quite possibly the most relaxing two nights possible with far-away-friends and alcohol and muppets and cartoons and feminist philosophy and tarot and tasty foods and good conversation, and I really feel great.

But of course, about three hours into the new year, things got a little topsy-turvy, but I'm still waiting for a resolution to that situation, so let's not get into that here.

Speaking of resolutions, I don't typically have them, but last year I resolved to have some this year- so here they are.

1) I will learn a new language this year. It will probably be German, since Michael and I are wanting to go to Germany this fall to do some missionary work- working with the Jesuits for social justice. Right up our alley, but it seems as though we would be less successful if no one could understand us and vice versa. They'd be all like, "Ich ain schlopn Bush," which means, "We were just about to grant social justice, but then we realized you stupid Americans can't understand us, so instead we're going to get in league with the Bush Administration." And we'd be all like, "I don't understand what you mean, but it sounds like you're coming around, talking so angrily about Dubya." See? Wouldn't work at all.

2) I will grow in my spirituality. Okay, so this has been coming anyway, and is always a work in progress. But, I have just recently acquired a new aspect of spirituality, and I've decided to go with it. I don't know where exactly this path will take me, but I'm going. My eyes are open.

3) I will finish my novel. I've never really finished anything longer than a short story- I've never been able to keep up my own interest long enough. But I've been passively working on this one novel for months now. I still love it. I'm going to start actively working on it. Sari will win in the end.

4) I will keep in better contact with my friends- those that are here, and those far away. This, I think, will be the hard one. I'm a terrible correspondant. And I get into the groove of my life, so busy with work and daily doings that I forget to pick up the phone for weeks, months at a time. That's something I need to work on. Oh, and my family too. I want to keep in better contact with my siblings, whom I love an awful lot, but whom I hardly ever exchange words with. That has got to change. It's time my loved ones knew how much I love them, how much I think about them.

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So there you go. I have resolutions for this year, and they are stated. There are others, I suppose. But those are the ones I will be disappointed if I don't keep. I don't have anything more to say that is interesting at all.

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