We have the retrospective thread, so how about one looking foward instead. For the sake of brevity lets limit ourselves to 3 or 4 points
- Get onto a PGCE course, although I'm getting nervous about this as I seem to be the only person I know who applied and is yet to hear owt back
- Find somewhere OK to live in London with some friends. I'm fucking sick of lodging
- Make more friends in London and make sure I keep hold of the ones I've already got
I'm going to experiment with being nice
instead of being a cock
:(
why?
:(
...
- get a husband
- have babies
- live happily ever after
1. Pass driving test
^this
Definately
Get some driving lessons,
Attend more gigs,
More Tours.
Continue never learning how to drive
Write a book or form/join a band
Socialise more
Bump uglies more often
The usual
Drink less
Save money
Go travelling
Be nicer
All of it, bollocks.
Get a giant pet isotope
meet tree man
Pet Isotope?!
Isopod?
:D
*goes to stupid things you said thread*
what a massive mind fart :(
get a job
drink less
give up smoking
stop being a cunt
get healthy, wealthy and wise basically
Sort my social life out
Sort my love life out
Sort my work life out
Don't bother doing any of the above
More sleep
More realising that when I start thinking 'I'm not drunk!' it's time to stop drinking
Turning 30
A decent haircut
Its one of your aims to turn 30?
I hope for the sake of your self esteem you are currently 29
Everyone should aim to turn 30
in 2008. You'd be a fool not to!
if you don't manage it in 2008
will you try again in 2009?
I won't manage it until 2015
:(
not with that attitude you won't!
I turned thirty before it was 'cool'
hmmm
Move away
Quit smoking
Get back in shape
Start writing again
though I remember
quitting smoking was on this years list and now I smoke more
....
new job
new flat
learn spanish
quit smoking
Get one of those subliminal 'quit smoking' tapes but in Spanish
and play it at night
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leave my job in some capacity, if to go elsewhere doing something similar or something better, or to study or to work part time doing something i want to do.
go to some fun places - san francisco, la maybe, new york, maybe somewhere in canada again.
make next year's STA alldayer the best thing we've ever done, and avoid the cockups that killed this year's event.
whoop whoop!
^
drink less
smile more
excercise regularly
take over the world
-Quit smoking
-Learn how to actually act like a 20 year old
-Quit smoking
-Get in shape
-Quit smoking
-Get driving lessons
-Quit smoking
-Get better friends
-Quit smoking
-Learn how to be better with money
-Quit smoking.
2008: What the fuck is going on?
- Start new job, and not be rubbish at it!
- Move to a new place, and make new friends.
- Go and watch football more, I've been totally lame at it in 2007.
- Maybe find myself a girlfriend if I feel like it.
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- try to push further forward with the music stuff and take further steps towards world domination
- start pushing my writing again and trying to get paid for the odd thing here and there
- find a job I enjoy
- better still, find three or four things that'll bring in a small income so that between them I can live off these and not have a full-time job.
I'd add get a girlfriend to this too
but I wanted to stick within the realm of things I might realistically achieve.
To be controversial..
i. Start smoking
ii. Start drinking
iii. Turn 30
iv. Use more Roman numerals
But then
'Turn XXX' could have all kinds of unforseen recriminations
Quit Smoking
Travel (possibly backpacking)
See My Bloody Valentine play live
Buy a Bulldog
Assassinate Jamie T
1.get a new job
2. pass driving test
3. learn tae kwon do
4. learn to play an instrument
5. move out of parents house
6. drink less
I'm rubbish with this.
Every monday and 1st of every month is when things are going to be perfect from then on, but they never are, and I'm the only person to blame.
I'm usually good with new years though, I get a bit more motivated. I would do a list, but basically every aspect of my life is going to improve. And that'd be a big list.
Get a better job
Spend less money on shite I don't particularly want
Get some sort of a love life
Make more of an effort to meet new people
That's about all, really. Might be an idea to drink a bit less, but let's not run before we can walk.
to leave the house every day
to make some money from selling something improbable
to find an affordable [! haha! hahaha! ho ho. heehee! the hilarity... the japes.] flat in london. [note: hendon DOES NOT COUNT as london.]
to buy more lipstick
find a new flat
start playing mid stakes
go on holiday
learn to drive
my aim for 2008 is
to have a fucking awesome time.
^ this too...
hmmm...
stop smoking........as in actually do it this time
run more
take more pictures
cook more curries from scratch
buy less cd and more vinyl
i have three
1. to have more fun
2. to have more haircuts
3. to quit smoking (really this time)
smoking...
really is quite addictive.
Possibly a house move... I feel restless...
Take lessons in French.
Get my UK citizenship.
Get back into running.
Save money.
Be nicer.
Go and visit family in Oz.
Think about making a move out of London over to Europe (which requires French and UK citizenship).
hopefully
1. Finally write these songs which I feel I should be recording.
2. Learn to drive
3. Go to uni
4. Generally grow up a bit
5. Get a job at a nice place like a stupid deli or coffee shop or something
6. Have hedonistic fun - properly hedonistic, mind. Not just getting really drunk occasionally.
find a nice new flat
pay off my overdraft by June
save money to go to New York
start swimming again
stop freaking out about stuff
learn Hiragana and Katakana fluently
all do-able, I reckon!
- _ -
- Don't fuck up at my new job
- Find a nice flat/room in Bristol
- Play a gig at Mr Wolfs with my new band
- Save enough money to Mexico
- Go to Mexico
- Learn Spanish
- Join a gym
- Learn capoiera
spend more money on clothes
read more
work less
live with boyfriend
.
attend both atps
don't fail uni
be more friendly
kiss a girl
go to canada
FIVE!
.
-pass my course
-get some merits on course
-get into uni
-get a new job
-sleep more
-go to pitchfork atp, perhaps.
exciting!
Get a pet isotope
Make her mine (not the isotope).
Finish writing a song. Seriously, just one song. Is that so much to ask? Then maybe record and jag it.
Be regularly published in the music section of the uni newspaper.
Convince whoever the appropriate people to convince are not to chuck me out of uni.
In that order.
Every day give yourself a present?
Be more organised
Listen to my instincts (no more drunk phone calls/desperate thoughts)
Be less of a bitch
Actually decide what I want to do with my life
...not too much to ask?
2008
Apologise less
write my play
Get the play performed
Spend some time in France
Learn how to prioritise
Maybe not in that order.
-Not read shitty
lazy articles about 'detoxing' and the 'new you' etc
-learn to drive
-get a 1st
Get a job asap
-meet some new people
-very possibly get a boyfriend
-get into Wales (haven't been there yet) and hopefully Ireland
-see more live music
ellaellaellaella!!!
-learn to be independent again!
-become happy through exercise and thought control (rather than with lithium and clonazepam)! RELAX! GET A GRIP!!!
-visit Prague and hopefully live there for at least some amount of time!
-take a trainride through the flower fields of the netherlands.
In 2008, I'll...
- Still love Sally.
- Deal with a of a pair of cunts.
- Not get arrested.
- Pass a solid stool.
...
get an enjoyable job..
maybe learn how to drive.
register to vote..?
I'm so glad you did this!
Thank you royter
BUMP
How is everyone doing so far?
Really well thanks.
I decided I didn't want to do one of mine
I'll let you know in a month or so
got enough friends in London have you?
Something like that!
i'm trying to think what i would have said in december..
1. take up smoking
2. stay single for a while
3. make another short film
4. more gigs & music festivals
and the results so far:
1. fail
2. mostly success, though not really out of choice in the end
3. i'm reading scripts now! this won't be likely to get finished in 2008 though.
4. total success!
how did yours go?