a) Spend minimal time talking about my mainstream hobbies- enjoying Taylor Swift and occasionally listening to KDWB, watching 10 Things I Hate About You, Glee and Britain's Got Talent, complaining about trivial matters like a heavy backpack or who pronounces Sophomore correctly, and how I hate my history teacher with such a passion I want to pull a Salem on her.
b) Spend more of my time reading the newspaper and paying attention to current events and listening to Anna and Gaia when they talk- not just pretending to listen. Moos. Moos is also a good resource to listen to.
c) Balance my time more evenly between the Current and 93X. I can still like my old music, I just need to get more new music too.
d) Quit Volleyball- refrain from playing Softball. Anna's right, I need more sleep.
e) Go shopping with someone other than my mother.
f) Buy clothes that I actually want to wear and will wear.
g) Spend less time doing worthless business on my computer. I do need to o that, and I can't believe I'm saying it. But I regret losing touch with all my old hobbies. I used to read like a maniac, I used to draw and paint in my free time, not use the paint app on my computer. This little piece of technology is the bane of my existence and it only gets worse.
h) The one thing I'm not going to force myself to do is be more social. I'm really becoming a bit of a loner. And I'm liking it. My mother, on the other hand, would rather pierce her bellybutton than let me drift into the introverted shell I'd kind of prefer.
On a side note about my mother, I have to start confirmation this year. I don't want to, because the youth program at my church is so lame. And so, of course, I protested. And She immediately turned to me and told me I could not be an atheist, I could not be Jewish and I could not be Muslim unless I moved out of her house and got a job to support my schooling. While I lived under her roof, I would be a goddamn Catholic.
I was so in shock I couldn't really think of a decent reply. Just that she shouldn't have lied to me as a child if she wasn't going to support anything I wanted to do later in a life.
i) learn how to stay focused and talk about a subject for a good period of time without going off on a tangent...
j) hope Mrs. Sagar's feeling ok.
k) realize that that totally had nothing to do with what I have to do to be more interesting...
l) do my homework on time and try not to forget vital pieces of paper in my locker.
m) see if I can really make a list of twenty three things I can do to be more interesting. I'm on fifteen now, i think.
n) keep telling myself that I'm not stupid and I can do things...
o) get more excited to finish my shoes in Art tomorrow.
p) encourage you guys to check out this
q) realize that this post is going to stretch and apologize ahead of time.
r) Buy a classical cd. either off of itunes or target- and learn to recognize the basic differences between at least a few composers. My knowlege of classical music makes me sad to look at me sometimes.
s) Drivers Ed. I can't believe this came so far down on the list. My mother won't sign me up, and I can't sign myself up because I can't afford it. She says I don't deserve to drive, but I can't see it. I mean- I'm a good student in most subjects and I'm not going to fail Chinese this year- I can feel it. It's not painful anymore. And I owe it all to a Saint named Lauren Himle.
t) learn not to tell my friends secrets. i don't want to be interesting for the wrong reasons.
u) try a little harder to ignore what others think
v) try not to get so excited that I'm running out of letters.
w) Practice contour rawing more in order to surprise Mrs. Sagar with how good I've gotten at art. Contour drawing is so hard for me because I can't peek and I can't resist picking up my pencil. It's a good thing to be good at though.
y) Get my mother more into theater, art, and moving out of the suburbs. Actually, do that for all my family.
z) Promote Garfunkel & Oates's newest song! http://www.youtube.com/user/rikilind
Goodnight.
4 comments:
You forgot "x," just saying...
Interesting ideas?
OMG did I really forget x? That's embarrassing.
Yeah.... That's okay, I won't tell anyone. :D
I definitely can relate to some of those... New school year resolutions are in fact awesome and make much more sense than new year's, I have a few of my own. However, some of those things are not problems at all. Shopping with your mom? She pays!
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