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2 years ago
The list
Jack’s list:
(I will)
- play my full part at work as a proactive team member
- be a self-starter when it comes to exploring alternative career plans
- think outside the box regularly
- attempt to move the goalposts before the close of play
- drink less
- try to love Lucy more/ break up with her in a mature and dignified manner
- explore my purpose in life
- read two chapters of the Bible every evening, thereby finishing it by the end of the year
- do the same with the Koran
- explore suitable remedies for premature hair loss before it is too late
- check my testicles regularly for lumps
- set up tax-deductible direct debits to worthy charities
- exercise every second day and turn my blancmange into a six-pack
- maintain a non-political, non-psycho, non-fat-woman narrative account of my year in diary format
(I will not)
- indulge in blue-sky thinking or run up any kites
- spend every weekend binge drinking
- be so dismissive to my mum
- masturbate more than four times per week
- flirt with anyone at work
- be a tosspot
- wallow in a quarter-life crisis
- complain about working past 9pm
- read Metro on the tube when I could take a book instead
- be such a hypochondriac
MY list - shorter & sweeter:
(I will)
- pay-off my credit card debt
- make the first step towards a less depressing career by going back to school part-time
- buy a new digital camera
- become more alert and proactive at work
- spend less time shit-talking and more time DOING
- compete in a bi-athalon
- learn one Jamaican slang word per day
- actively participate in the charities I’m a member of
- go to more museums
- maintain a non-political, non-psycho, non-fat-woman narrative account of my year in diary format
(I will not)
- take taxi cabs
- go on facebook more than once per day
- pay for cheap peeps
- become discouraged at work
- go to every single concert/ show/ event that comes my way in efforts to catch up on years of missed-sleep and to prevent any further hearing loss
- let my NY Times weekender subscription go to waste by leaving it unopened on the bathroom floor each week
- let people have the power to change who I am, what I like, where I go, when I do, why I love, or how I (mis)behave
- spend every weekend binge drinking
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