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[New Years] Because 2017 was too good for us.
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Post here your New Years activities, pledges, and what you're looking forward to in the new year.
Next year I'm going to spend more time outside. Hopefully 2018 is as good as 2017, at least for me personally.
Next year I'm going to spend more time outside. Hopefully 2018 is as good as 2017, at least for me personally.
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Happy New Year, PA forums!
Maybe a couple new things to look forward to
Possibly even a new assignment
New Years resolution is now officially NO MORE SUGAR once and for all.
Plans for 2018 include maybe finding a house, but that would involve Mrs Rhesus staying with the job she hates for the permanent contract, so I kind of hope that's a 2019 thing and she gets a new job
As for tonight, I'd get drunk but that makes me all confrontational and shit. So I'll probably eat a lot of tacos.
I've spent the last week putting on the weight I'm going to lose this year (food in buffalo is like unfairly delicious)
Come Overwatch with meeeee
But right now I’m napping.
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In 2017 I got marriaged to a fantastic and beautiful American woman, earned the biggest paycheck of my life, reached my goal of having more than 30 thousand USD on my bank account, bought a Switch, played some games, regained my hope in (parts of) the US and got a pretty great apartment less than 30 minutes from my workplace.
In 2018 my wife will come to live with me in Sweden so she can become a citizen in a few years. I plan on saving up more money, do some travel, get to know what it's like to live with a dog and try to contribute more to civil society. And read more books.
I'm also going to turn 30. Jeepers.
wow, a Switch cost almost as much as one of those Nintendo Classic consoles.
I contemplated skipping going out today. But I’ve done that before and felt very, very retroactively sad about it. Not FOMO - more like I felt I was too lazy to do anything and that was a bad feeling. I can be lazy any other day of the year. Note: These are my own personal feelings about my own life, I don’t think there is anything wrong with not going out on NYE so please do not take it that way.
Anyway, 2017 was pretty terrible all-around for me. I’ve stopped talking to dozens of people. Friends that I thought were friends but really weren’t. Friends that really were friends but I lost as friends due to their fault, my fault, or some combination of both. Split with the girl I was dating. Found out that my previous long term relationship got married a month after reaching out to me to hang out for god knows what purpose. Poor monetary decisions. Unfulfilling, stressful year at work. Didn’t see my family as much as I could and should have. The collapse of my delusions as to what I thought America was becoming and subsequently the collapse of pride I had in my country and countrymen. And just general anger at myself and everyone and everything.
So I’m going out because fuck it. I wasn’t to say goodbye to the past and welcome the future. And I want to do it at a semi-random dive bar because I want to minimize socializing with people I already know. What better way to end a 2017 filled with shitty people than meeting new ones?
Also hoping to hear back from a few job applications.
Tonight, though, I'm going to a dinner party with one of the faculty members on the current grant I'm working on. I've been kind of mentoring her son a bit, so I've been promised fancy French food for a while and I'm going to cash in.
Hopes for the new year include finding a new job (that I like as much as my current job) that will allow us to move closer to our families, and hopefully getting my anxiety that popped up this year back under control.
Best wishes to all of you guys!
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I've managed to keep it so far. Here's to new endings and new beginnings.
2018 goals: 1 job for the whole year. Everything else is just gravy.
Not really a party person. So no drinking. Maybe we will watch dumb youtube videos and play Cards Against Humanity.
2018 will be gym, gym, gym. I need to do an amateur muay thai fight before I turn 30.
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
But tonight it was easy. They just showed up. I didn't hear about any huge parties happening amongst my circle of friends, either.
Kind of have the feeling that a lot of people just wanted 2017 to die an ignominious death.
We were so young. So innocent. Can't wait to see how 2018 lowers the bar even further!
2016: the year all your favs died
2017: the year all your favs turned out to be sex pests and you just wished they'd died.
That game was awesome. When it worked.
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But I mean, the idea of New Years is a hopeful one, so maybe I should focus on that? Humans are defined by ideas, after all... and a little positivity couldn't hurt after the last 12 months of horror.
I mean, it's totally symbolic, but like you say, that's how human brains work. Having a big culturally accepted checkpoint that's all about resetting and renewal can be handy, if you want that. Alternatively, it's an opportunity to get drunk and give the past year the big middle finger.
Getting in the mindset that time is a grinding, cyclical slog may feel more cynically true, but it can also make you feel more trapped than is healthy.
I suppose this is as right as it gets.
"Being Woke" is sometimes is a hopeless exercise in cynicism and can cause people to get petty and hopeless because they convince themselves of the futility of their existence on a larger scale.
I do have things I'm looking forward to next year. I think I'll focus my energy on improving there instead nihilism.
Well put.
I'm beginning to learn there is an unironic truth hiding in "ignorance is bliss".
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Nah, won't be doing either.
Part of me trying to get back to a rhythm I can live with is getting back to getting up early. Like, 4:30 to 5. Part of that goes with going to bed before 10.
What better way to celebrate the new year than with renewed resolve towards a goal?