New Year's Resolutions

Yesterday I did some #madpainting, actually I painted all day and got totally exhausted and fell asleep early.  But then here I am up early in the am.  I am having a hard time putting pen to paper these days so I thought maybe putting electronic keyboard to work would flow more smoothly.

I feel like I'm not ready for the new year even though I compiled a summation of my awesomest status updates from 2012, I do not feel like it's 2013 yet.  I remember taking down 2012's calendar and posting up the new 2013 calendar and thinking, wow I didn't think I would live to see this year in history.  I had been determined to live such an amazingly controversial and dangerous life so as not to live this long.  Hey history! I've been trying to distinguish myself all these years and I'm still just a thread in the great quilt of life.

I'm not really into resolutions, but I do reevaluate my lifestyle on a quarterly or semesterly basis, one of the perks of being in academia.  You clear the decks and set a new standard for yourself and your students for the new class.  Never fails by the end of the semester everyone is back to their habits.  So why do we do it? Well this semester I resolved to commute by bicycle 2 out of 5 days in the week.  This is due to a calculation that I ran, assuming I saved or "stored" carbon credits for being a cyclist while in graduate school.  Well, now I have already used them all up by driving back and forth to school (37 miles each way).  So I will attempt to involve a bicycle in the means by which I get from my house to my office.

Got to spend a good deal of time with family this year.  In that sense our harvest has been abundant.  Our garden right now is paused with the exception of a wildflower mix that is going crazy!  The student garden is in ??? shape.  I visited it on Friday before winter break and the squash leaves had frost damage.  I guess winter is here.  On Christmas morning we ate squash from the garden.  For some reason this was important to me.  I also learned that just because it's called field corn doesn't mean you can't eat it.