Monakhos

I’ll start posting again later. I have nothing of note to report.

I finally gave in and started reading the Harry Potter. It’s relieving that they are children’s books as the 300 pages read pretty quickly. I read the first one in about the time it took me to read 50 pages of The Power of Babel.

My doctor (actually someone else’s doctor – this guy was just the doctor who wasn’t booked this morning when my doctor was full) was very comforting today telling me that I most likely didn’t have tuberculosis, chasing that with a request to get a chest x-ray done.

I want to buy the empty theater near my house, but unfortunately I don’t have the spare change.  Maybe next week.

How do they get away with it? They have the worst service of any store that I can think of. This wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t make it impossible to find an adapter or random part without getting help. To top it all off the prices are ridiculous! I almost bought 2 10k pots for $3.00 a piece (luckily their service was so slow I left before checking out.) Looking around online, there’s a slew of places selling the same thing for 50 cents. Grrrrr.

Sorry for the random rant, but I needed to vent.

… That someone just told me that this album art reminds him of me?

I don’t think I’ve ever actually fulfilled a New Year’s resolution. That said, I do have some goals for this year. I want to make 2008 the year of practice. I can never seem to hold habits. Especially the habits that have to do with practice. Hopefully with the help of some friends around town I can do better this year.

Language

Jon has been pestering me for ages to learn Esperanto. I want to, but I don’t practice and study enough. I have plenty of other languages that I want to learn or refresh myself on. If I can successfully start the habit of practicing Esperanto, it should be easier for me to dive back into French and Russian. I think six months of Esperanto should be sufficient to get a firm grasp on the language, and then I’ll move onto French (while still practicing Esperanto, but not studying it as intensively.)

Music

I used to practice more, but now I feel like I’m coasting. I practice enough in a band setting, but I don’t spend enough time on personal practice. I also want to study more theory and composition. The goal for 2008 is to start practicing the drums more regularly (so I can work through all the books I’ve started and never finished) and to write a symphony.

 Spirituality

Recently, I’ve been coasting here too.  I need to buckle down. I started focusing more in December, but I need a little more focus. I think I’ll start the year off finishing a study on the occult and then go back into Buddhism and Hinduism for a while.

Hopefully this year will be a year of practice. I need to get in the habit of making habits. Maybe that can be my resolutions. “To start habits.”