Maxigumee

Here is the checklist from my 2008 resolutions.

1. Explore New York City more. Not really. But I did get to know certain parts of New York better than I did before. I spent a lot of the summer walking around my neighborhood and parts of Manhattan for work, so I guess that’s something.

2. Get a job. Yes and no. I had two jobs this past year (working as a personal assistant and then as a sales associate at a soap store), but I have been unemployed since August. So I only fulfilled my resolution by half, kind of. I need a job again. Badly.

3. Do more fun stuff! NO. 2008 was kind of the anti-fun year. Not only did it suck hard core in terms of school, but I think I became a total lame-ass because of the gigantic rut I seem to have been stuck in. For much of the year, I’ve been a total homebody and haven’t really been up to all that much. This needs to change.

4. Cook/bake more interesting things. Not at all. I’m still making peanut butter sandwiches and pasta pretty much all the time. It’s not like I didn’t try, though. I bought like three cookbooks and subscribed to Martha Stewart’s food magazine. Still, I haven’t really had the time or money to really get down to culinary business. This also needs to change. I can start by finally calling the super when I get back to New York and getting the oven fixed.

5. Network with people! NO! Part of being a lame-ass is not socializing enough so it kind of goes without saying that my plan to network was a failure.

6. Throw parties! YES! It took me a while to finally start throwing parties in my apartment, but I finally did over the summer. I also had a pretty cute Halloween party and I threw a cool New Year’s party the other day, too.

7. Take more pictures of random stuff and bring my camera everywhere. Yes, kind of. I did this like once. I probably would have done this more, though, had I not broken my mini point-and-shoot camera earlier in the year. It’s a huge hassle to carry around a digital SLR everywhere I go. This is probably why I haven’t taken that many pictures in general this year.

8. Take interesting classes! YES! I took four very interesting classes at Brooklyn College for my Spring semester: History of Modern Art, Psychology, Anthropology, and French. Then I went to FIT and kind of killed that whole thing. Now that I’m transferring back to Brooklyn College, I hope to start doing that again.

9. Experiment more with photography and photographic gadgets. No, but I don’t really care that much about this one.

10. Do more things that are free. YES! I went to the library a few times. And I went to free museums and saw movies for free at MoMA with my student ID!

11. Have an awesome year! HA. Not really. But I guess it could have been way worse. Here’s to making 2009 way better than 2008!