is your heart a sponge or a fist?

keeping it simple. intentions for the year:

1. graduate in december!!!!!!!!! by any means necessary.
2. summer internship or seed potato lab employment for one last burst of resume bolstering.
3. climb v5 or get back to 5.11A top-rope level at LEAST.
4. read 12 books. i set this low at one book a month so that it is low pressure and my heart doesn't explode from stress. preferably i would like to read more books from non-american authors again!
5. save more money...........i shall aim for 25% of take home pay.
6. cook more often and more adventurously
7. maintain friendships! my 4 closest friends in bozeman will all have moved out of montana by the end of january. i do not intend to drift apart!!!
8. own less stuff. too much clutter = why i struggle to keep my apartment from becoming visually stressful
9. write more. fic or original - doesn't matter! i really miss the process of writing, and the fun of posting/getting feedback/discussing shit endlessly.
10. get back to juice-hunting. for those uninitiated to my twitter 6 years ago, when i lived in detroit i was dedicated to trying every juice i could find and hunting for the best version of each. i'm sure there's still tons of juices and fruit punches i have never tried...it was fun and stupid and we should all have at least one silly resolution :)
11. get job offer that makes moving back to detroit possible upon graduation. this is not realistic as agriculture/horticulture industry does not exist there outside cannabis which i pledged to never work in ever again so...belle isle conservancy please be hiring in december.
12. continue seeing every movie that comes out ever no matter how stupid. i have one of those cinema passes and i intend to keep abusing it

lets look at the 2021 resolution/plan/goals post i made at the beginning of the year and review my successes/failures

college    (5.5/7 = 79%)

• anthropology writing intensive course: i did the writing intensive in conjunction with the anthropology capstone requirement but forgot to actually register for the intensive due to some miscommunication on the part of my professors/advisors. however my advisor just waived it and its fine. so i did it. in a fucked up way! it was about urban farming in detroit. 
• re-take technical comm: i did not do this. i replaced the gen ed requirement this was going to fulfill with a dumb intermediate writing course. so i kind of did it.
• exit interviews: the head of my department said we weren't doing exit interviews this year. so i passed?
• see if field school transfers as anthro methods course: it doesnt. but its fine i just took anthro methods.
• graduate with linguistics + anthro degrees: hell yea
• re-enroll for biological sciences: i did this if you consider that i refined general biology idea to environmental horticultural science. so this counts as a pass. to me!
• michigan state master naturalist course: cancelled due to covid. SAD!

field school   (2/3 = 66%)

• manifesting that it happens in person even if it ends up in utah: nailed it!
• letter of recommendation from isaac: havent asked for this because i havent needed it 
• win the presentation competition: well there was no competition this year for some reason but considering the fact that dr broughton had zero comments on my practice run, isaac had no edits on my paper or research proposal, and one of the guests at our conference told me i should apply to work with the bureau of land management to help solve their wild horse problem, i feel like i kind of won.

work/finances   (1/3 = 33%)

• stop being the worst employee of all time: i got a different job and became a solid B-tier employee imo
• save 2k: well some people have dental problems and are bad with money. i got closer than i did last year though. and to be fair i did just have to get all new furniture. so maybe i did it for a second.
• stop buying clothes oh my fucking god: failed this HARD. had successful 1-2 month stints where i abstained (and am currently in a solid streak right now) but this is a huge problem for me...shopping addiction.....aha. help.

misc:   (4/5 = 80%)

• read 24 books: made it to 26 or so! i wanted to read way more than this like i did last year, but in my defense i had WAY more going on in 2021 than i did in 2020. i did it though. i got better at picking out books i like this year too.
• more volunteering: i think i did alright in this. i did tree planting and rain gardening and food donation and clothes distribution and some mutual aid stuff with for the people detroit so...i feel okay about it but also wish i did more! hopefully i can find some good stuff to volunteer at in bozeman.
• contact [redacted]: i did not do this and boy am i GLAD i did not do this. i have officially let go of my firstlove disease! chains and tyranny etc etc
• clear out apartment clutter: well everything i own now fits in my car. so!
• get out more if possible: you know what sure. i met interesting people this year and also went places when i could! im a real boy now (not a puppet)