we need a resolution. well that's what they say, anyway.

i went out for new year's eve for the first time ever. dinner and a club. me and the boy should have rang (ringed? rung? ugh, grammar) in the new year by sitting in my apartment and rubbing together the respective nickels we each have to our name. because although it was nice to get out, but it really wasn't that exciting. at least i know what i'd been missing for the past 23 years.

anyways, i usually do the resolution thing more around summertime, because that is really when i feel refreshed. i'm not feeling so re-newed, and it doesn't seem like much of a new anything going on in my life.

but hell, everyone else is doing it, so
i resolve to...

write down my goals (hey look i'm already there)
make a budget and follow it
complain less
make an effort to be nicer to my classmates (ie not roll my eyes everytime they talk)
do more drugs (hey if i'm going to tell people it's bad for them, i should know exactly why)
read a book that is non-med school related
get all purty-fied up and go out more often
go visit my grandmother
call my other grandmother more often
become slightly famous
have my hair done by someone who is not me
write more
go to at least one capoiera or dance class

and the obligatory: work harder at school and go to the gym on a regular basis

i guess those aren't so far-fetched.


it sucks that i am already back to school. my christmas break was nice, but entirely too short. i got to see many of my friends, including tankers and kina (but no dave. boooo). it was nice to see some of the most important people to me. even though i've been almost un-reachable since july, it was like i fell right back in step with everyone. which says a lot to me about the friendships i've made.
turns out kina is miserable in her life too! not to rejoice in the misery of others or anything, but it does kind of make me happy in a selfish sort of way. it seems as though we have this sort of cosmic miserable connection. whenever i am feeling all woe-is-me, kina is almost consistently having the same issues. misery still loves company, even in a cosmic long-distance intercontinental sense. so she's in that early 20s funk about life too. and she's REALLY foreign to her new place.
but at least we're both out there. whatever that means. and we haven't completely lost our minds, unlike some people we know.

so now i must get my studyin' on. because we have jumped right into this new semester. however, the financial aid/cashier's office has not quite gotten that memo. everyone pray that i have enough ramen and canned goods to make it 'til next week, when they say we MAY get our loan checks.

gotta love the hbcu experience.

ps the prince one is my favorite.