I don’t normally do New Year’s resolutions. Mostly it’s because I can never come up with anything that I care enough about to see through. Or, at least, I don’t come up with these things at the right time of the year. I do have some resolve, and occasionally employ it.
Anyway, here goes:
1. The Everything I Own Project
I’m going to get this off the ground within the next couple weeks. I’ve got most of the stuff I need for the website re-design ready. I’ve still got to figure out how I’m going to go about photographing everything I own. This will probably involve breaking everything up into categories and tackling a group of objects on days that I have plenty of free time. Also, to help keep on top of things, I will photograph new stuff as I bring it home, and old stuff as I declutter (because I don’t think the project would be honest if I threw stuff out or gave it away before documenting it).
I’ve also got to figure out what level of detail I want for documenting stuff. For example, when I cover my computers, do I want to just snap pictures of the cases, and maybe list the specs, or do I want to crack them open and photograph the different components? Or, for mundane stuff like my socks, do I want to photograph each pair, or just throw them in a pile and take one picture? And at what point do I start leaving stuff out? Do I really want to bother photographing my groceries, and things of that nature? On the other hand, if I do photograph things like groceries, it gives a more complete view of my consumption patterns, which kind of fits with the spirit of the project.
Either way, this is starting soon.
2. Go back to school.
This isn’t much of New Year’s resolution, given that I’ve been planning it for a while. But I’ve got my winter and summer courses picked out, and my registration form for the winter semester printed off. Now I just need to get a money order and mail it in. My courses for the winter will be: Technical Writing: Introduction, Web Programming and Design, and Print and Online Design.
3. Improve my relationship to water.
This one is kind of a big deal. I use way, way more water than I need to. I’m slow moving first thing in the morning, so showers last far longer than they should. I could probably do with running the dishwasher less often, and using less water when I wash dishes by hand. I’m not very good at remembering that water is a finite resource.
I also need to drink more water. And probably less coffee.
That’s probably enough as far as actual resolution that I think I’ll keep go. I’ve also got it in my head that I should eat better, exercise more, actually get involved in politics at some level, write daily, etc. But these are things that I tend not to follow through with.