Dear America,

No matter what the current state of the government is, it is still, in letter and by law, your government. In order to keep tabs on what is yours, you may want to know exactly what it is doing. I implore you to go directly to the primary source material yourself. Therefore, I have placed a direct link to the Thomas.gov entry for your Health Care Reform Bill and Thomas.gov on the top of the right navigation bar.

And pull up your pants.

Thanks,

Lose More Weight, Have More Sex, Be More Awesome

That is my New Year's Resolution, to be executed with the following plans.

Lose More Weight

• Maintain healthy eating habits like eating a balanced breakfast, making sure I get protien with every meal, avoid that HFCS, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't binge
• Begin working out again
• Go climbing more often
• Construct a better outdoor activity wardrobe and make more hiking dates

Have More Sex

• Maintain the current plan to increase confidence and don't back down from the predator mode
• Take any and all lessons from the Ghetto Boy
• Make sure I don't lose contact with the Ghetto Boy
• Wait and see if The Hottie wasn't just being a tease
• Tend to the rest of my harem appropriately
• Try another angle for CL ads
• See other parts of the plan

Be More Awesome

• Perfect my footless highway driving
• Create a Britney Pool
• Follow up with all of the projects projected for '09
• Push bosses to create a ticketing systems to charge for small consulting projects
• Follow through on documentary idea (meeting with a friend already scheduled)
• Improve concentration at work

New Foods

I am a super taster. What that means is that I have an overabundance of taste buds that make lots of stuff taste bad to me. I also am one of those people that can taste bitter. I learned this in the 7th grade with a rather memorable lab and a piece of paper on the back of my tongue. I've heard that those people typically do not like vegetables. As a vegetarian and a person aiming to have a more healthy diet, this is a significant frustration. For instance, cooked carrots have been known to make me gag, and I only begrudgingly eat broccoli. Hence am I teaching myself to enjoy new foods.

I grew up a very picky eater, it was a long time before I could enjoy cuts of meat like steak. I think I had scarcely learned to eat pork chops before I went vegetarian. Mexican and Chinese food were also among my dislikes at an early age. I have just now learned to enjoy mashed and baked potatoes and am trying to learn olives. So far, I have realized that they are very "intense", but I do enjoy certain green olives with the pits. I still do not like apples (but only in their raw form), mushrooms (in any form), and yogurt. Those dislikes all seem to be texture based, since I like applesauce, will eat things made with cream of mushroom soup, and can't say I dislike the flavors of yogurt. Someday, I hope that my taste will change to the point where I can enjoy carrots and broccoli too.

Incredible

I logged into my pseudonym gmail account, where I keep all my political crap. I realized I hadn't read Alternet since last week, and I realized that I hadn't missed it, at all. Instead, I read about why Africa is the way it is, watched some dazzling historical fiction about England's defeat of the Spanish Armada, watched some really attractive reenactors make the Great Wall in China, learned about Muslims in Spain, reveled in the differences of Spanish culture, and began to really read my old Chinese history text. When I got off the train in Lafayette, I was sobered to see 4000
4000
on the hill. While I was gone, 10 young, healthy people died in Iraq.