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Resolution(s) For The New Year

By Tim Zinnecker

We come to the end of another calendar year, when thoughts may turn to resolutions for the upcoming year.  Lose weight.  Exercise.  Be more patient.  Learn to play the cello.  Publish an article in one of the thirty "top twenty" journals.  Reach the summit of Mount Everest.  And the list could go on.

I suppose I should exercise.  And I could be more patient at times.  But none of the foregoing are specific resolutions I wish to declare.

But here's one.  And maybe by sharing it in this post it will give me some sense of accountability.

Be it resolved that in the calendar year 2010 I will buy fewer books than I read.  (I need to make a dent in the number of unread books  I have at home -- probably a number north of 150.)

How about you?  Care to share any specific resolutions for next year?

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on December 31, 2009 (boomark / email).