resolutions

Since I am feeling generally crappy about my day, my life and me, I am going to post my New Year's resolutions so I can further feel crappy. Let me just say briefly that my day was AWESOME until my mother called to yell at me for no apparent reason. I live to be her sounding board ... about me. Anyway, let's move on, shall we?

1. Eat more vegetables.
2. To aid the first resolution, I bought a cookbook so I can make new foods.
3. Write papers and finish projects AT LEAST one day in advance.
4. Shred all papers with sensitive information.
5. As a result of No. 3, I will get better grades.
6. Learn how to vibrato on my cello.
7. Play a real piece on the cello.
8. Motivate thyself to do as you plan. For example, tonight, because of my crappy day, I just wanted to go home and sleep. What did I do? I checked the news, replied to e-mail, made guacamole and called James. And decided to write my resolutions after reading Albert's on Facebook, the death knell to all tasks productive.
9. Pass the MTEL.
10. Pass other qualifying exams needed to get out of grad school by next spring other than the inquiry paper.

So those 10 will make me a better person and a better student. Let's go, 2007!

Victorious! Victory is ours.

So we totally squashed Michigan! I actually showed up at the bar two hours early because I finished shopping (Victoria's Secret stuff, Express Editor pinstripe pants, one-pot cookbook, sealing wax and initial seal) waaaay too early. I usually time this things perfectly ... must be losing my magic touch. Anyway, I was one of three or so people at the bar until another USC alumnus at down beside me. We had a nice chat, making some small talk; you know how it goes. He apparently works at Fidelity and was (like so many USC people :P) a business major. Anywho, we headed down to the USC skybox around 4:30 p.m. and met up with other USC alumni.

I started talking with this lawyer who happened to be a Daily Trojan vet as well. We shared our mutual memories. I caught him up on the recent EIC election fiasco with Michael Jackson and its ensuing controversy that involved former DT editors, Annenberg professors and other university publications, which backed us up with a collaborative editorial. He dropped some names. Used some big words. Pretty pompous, but a nice guy nevertheless. He gave me his card to e-mail him my first byline at my summer internship. I don't think he quite understood what copy editors do. I won't be getting a byline in a while.

It was a small crowd, but we had a great time beating those Wolverines and cheering as loud as we could so the Michigan people across the room in the other skyboxes could hear us. :) When the game ended, we sang the fight song. :) There were, of course, a couple of SoCal Spellouts in the house. Someone brought that HUGE USC flag and ran a lap around the room every time we scored.

Glorious. A glorious, glorious day.