convenience-store resolutions

[asakiyume]

(Which, one hopes, aren't resolutions of convenience...)

I went into a convenience store on January 1 to buy a bottle of red wine, and the guys at the counter and I had a round of happy-new-year wishes, and I said something like, "May it be a good one," and then one of the guys said,

"Yeah, my resolution this year is not to settle." Good resolution, I thought (though--because I'm constitutionally unable to keep from putting riders and qualifications on statements like this--I think "settling" is created in your own head. The same action can be settling, or not, depending on how you make up your mind to feel about it.)

"Mine is to do the hard things," I said. "Here's to success for both of us."

"Yeah!" he said.

----

So yeah, that's my amorphous, large-scale goal.

Slightly less amorphous than that is the goal to make significant progress on my new novel. I didn't do too well with that goal last year (didn't do much writing at all last year), but maybe this year will be better.

Even more fine-grained goal: utilize my library's free Mango Language account to learn Spanish. I've started on this! Maybe I should make the goal to do a lesson at least three times a week. What I can say so far that I didn't already know: Estoy bien.

I may also work up a running goal (meaning: a goal related to running) but I haven't got one yet.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Heh, so it is. I like that.

(I know I'm behind on your entries. I'll probably come calling tomorrow)

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

At the very least, check out the one I posted yesterday. There's some cool art.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Will do.

I thought of you this afternoon because I found myself voluntarily listening to opera. It was Der Fledermaus, but translated into English.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Was it with the Metropolitan Opera?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Maybe? Probably? it was broadcasting over a local NPR affiliate.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Ah.

Rose Polenzani's brother is a tenor in the Metropolitan Opera.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

SYNCHRONICITY

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Also, I learned that Polenzani is pronounced like Poland, not like Pol Pot. Hmm, I wonder if Poland and Polenzani are etymologically related. I mean, there are Italians named Schiavoni or Schiavo or Albanesi or Albanese.