I review the bad habits spread before me:
The wine, the cheese, the bourbon and gin;
The drinking-too-much-on-the-odd-school-night;
The chips and crackers (the better to have cheese with);
The smokes that diminish, one-by-one — but now only only every other month;
The hours wasted on blog posts, and comments, and arguments that never will be resolved; and,
The work that never seems to end and yet I can’t say no to it, and it comes more more more like I’m a hungry sparrow-chick.
All you damn bad habits.
Yes, I think I’ll keep you all.
Happy New Year!
von: Happy new year, and definitely keep the blog posts habit 😉
Happy new year Von, and definately keep the posting habit 🙂
Since this seems to be an open thread, I present this speech Canadian PM Paul Martin gave today, in case anybody was wondering if they’d ever hear a speech like you see on The West Wing come out of a real politician:
http://weblogs.macleans.ca/paulwells/archives/week_2006_01_01-2006_01_07.asp#002019
I hear ya. Oh how I hear ya.
Or to quote that old louche supporter of the Greek insurgency:
Oh Pleasure! you’re indeed a pleasant thing,
Although one must be damn’d for you, no doubt:
I make a resolution every spring
Of reformation, ere the year run out,
But somehow, this my vestal vow takes wing,
Yet still, I trust, it may be kept throughout:
I’m very sorry, very much ashamed,
And mean, next winter, to be quite reclaim’d.
Anyone else catch the Adult Swim bumps on their New Year’s Resolutions?
“John woke on Jan. 1st and felt queer.
He said ‘Crackers I’ll swear off this year;
For the lobster and wine
And the brandy were fine,
And it certainly wasn’t the beer!'”
(19th century limerick, recalled from mid-20th century memory)