[05.01.00]

Stuff to do in January
• Find a job. Preferably on campus, though not food service or grounds maintenence. I refuse to entertain the notion of getting another job in retail hell. The perfect job would be computer lab monitor, where I can do homework and have 10 hours a week of T1 access.
• Find a pair of jeans I like. For the past five years or so, I've simply been buying the same pair of jeans over and over again. Now Levis has switched in my mind from tolerable mega-corporation to evil mega-corporation, simply by discontinuing 565s. I am fickle, yes indeed. Now I must find a new pair of jeans I like from a tolerable mega-corporation. This time, I'll buy about ten pairs in case they are discontinued.
• Find a date. Undoubtedly harder than the previous two, but I tire of the single life. I actually placed a personal ad on Yahoo and have been getting some reponses, but I fear that method of date-procuring has been reduced to mere entertainment for me: I enjoy baiting and subtly insulting moronic married "bi-curious" women far more than is reasonable. I have been in contact with a few interesting people, however, so all is not lost.
• Work out a lot. Lately I've had the singular desire to be as fit as I possibly can, and my looming block of free time and free access to Macalester's gym seems like a perfect time to do it. I kind of view it as an experiment, to see how much muscle/loss of fat my curvy body shape will allow. I think bodies are interesting: we can stuff ourselves, starve ourselves, shave our heads, pierce and tattoo our skin, build up or destroy our muscles, basically alter our physical beings beyond recognition, but still be fundamentally the same person. We're play-doh, only sentient.

It occured to me today that it might be interesting to keep an online journal with no archives, simply a page of new content daily. That would take a lot of pressure off, actually- that way, one needn't fear old entries coming back to haunt them (some of my early stuff, for example, is quite embarrassing). It would be kind of fun to have a really simple page of random stuff to change every day- since it wouldn't be around for posterity, it needn't be overly thoughtful or meaningful. Maybe I'll try that, and institute it alongside my regular journal. It would be a bit like those web-log thingys that are so hip right now, but really more of a brain-log. Scary.

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