I had a very nice New Years at the First Night Celebration in town, stopping at Circus Cafe for a while, and then hanging out at my place. My friends stayed until about 3pm the next day, so it was a nice two day adventure (I’ve always liked to have adventures on New Years). I have three resolutions this year:
1) Cook more: last semester, for some reason, I just didn’t cook. I ate a lot of Espo, a lot of uncommon bagel sandwiches (with or without soup), and a lot of Pink Store pizza. This is, of course, not my ideal diet. I moved into my apartment only just before the semester started, and so I never got into the habbit of cooking. I’ve been hanging out with my friend Marla a lot, and she is a really good cook, cooking the type of healthy food I like to eat…this is what partially inspired me to make this resolution. So far, I’ve been doing well. I’ve made a few simple dishes, a big pot of soup (some of which is now frozen), and I haven’t eaten out except for a few lunch dates.
2) Be more informed about the world around me, like I was before graduate school sucked up all my energy: When I was in college, I knew a lot about what was going on in the world. I was very informed, I read the New York Times, every time I wrote a paper, I would read a ton of news articles about Africa. I knew what was going on in the world. Once I got to graduate school, I had far too much homework to be able to read like this…my papers were about theroetical this, intellectual debate that, not about what was going on in the real world (even though this is what I really care about). I went from knowing about a lot of current events to knowing about what I was writing about specifically – the war in Sierra Leone. To fulfill my resolution, I’ve decided to start by reading the Economist and Mother Jones, two good, well written magazines. I find newspapers very frustrating with too many repetitive articles, too much fear mongering, and too much about the war…so, I’m going to skip on those for now.
I like New Years resolutions 
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