I had big plans for 2010. Not making contact, exactly. I don’t have many encounters with monoliths in my daily life.

I can click back about four pages in my blog – which is set to only show 3 posts per page – before I get to a post I made a year ago. This is untenable.

There are a lot of things I had wanted to do in 2010 that just didn’t happen: spending some serious time with friends in Indiana, starting a band here, playing out more (even if the band didn’t happen), and working on a serious grad school poetry manuscript, and it seems that a lot of my grander schemes for the year escaped me too:

These are not resolutions – they’re changes I honestly want/need to implement, and I’ve arbitrarily set the end of 2010 as a deadline. Some of them include:

• Writing a song a week
• Recording at least twice a month
• Writing a poem a week (I already do this, somewhat, but I’ve been known to pull an old poem or two)
• Quit smoking
• Read books more than Reddit
• Hang out with my friends at least once a week
• Do more nice things for Kerry (flowers, dates, what have you)

I have no idea how many of these I’ll actually achieve, but I plan on being accountable for these decisions.

Did I write a song a week? No. Have I recorded twice a month? More like once every two months. There were a handful of poems, but 52 is a highball estimate by a matter of a couple dozen.

I work at a bar, and it’s 21+, because it allows smoking. You can guess how that goal went.

While I haven’t read more books than Reddit, the balance is a little better, and I am making more of a conscious effort to show my wife affection in ways she needs. So those two are (just barely) adequate.

My friends would probably think I was dead if I didn’t use Twitter.

So much for deadlines and accountability. I’m holding myself to these again for 2011.

Posted: December 31st, 2010 | Author: Matthew | Filed under: Life and Life Only | No Comments »

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