New Year, New You?

So it's a new year. I'm running about a week behind thanks to too many festivities in the festive period, so my body clock is adamant it's New Years Day today. This is fine for now, but could prove troublesome when it comes to birthdays, essay deadlines and so on.

Anyhoo, we all know what a new year means- resolutions! I don't think there is anyone who doesn't subscribe to this yearly attempt to become a better person, an attempt that invariably leads to misery and self-loathing around the February mark when it all comes crashing down and you realise that you can't in fact exercise five times a week, diet, quit smoking, learn a language, teach yourself ballroom dancing, find the love of your life, adopt any abandoned animals you find on the street and clean your house every other day without giving yourself a coronery. So instead you sit on the sofa eating take-aways, watching reality television whilst chain-smoking and proclaiming that resolutions are a mugs game anyway.

This year, I tell myself, it's going to be different- I'm going to stick like glue to my resolutions, in a metaphorical sense, as I think most of my resolutions are concepts rather than tangible things capable of being adhered to. I am graduating from University in the summer and it is THE START OF THE REST OF MY LIFE, which means now is the perfect time to become THE PERSON I WANT TO BE. With this in mind, I have made a list of achievable resolutions which I feel I can stick to:

1. Graduate from University this year
2. Exercise in some form [this does include running for the bus, walking up and down the stairs instead of taking the lift, and buying Davina's exercise DVD and lifting it up and down off the shelf occasionally]
3. Eat sensibly [As in don't go to the 24hr shop on my way home from a night out and spend £20 on frozen pizzas, multi-packs of hula hoops, family size packs of profiteroles and Ginsters pasties]
4. Keep writing [Seeing as I have a dissertation to write this is more of a neccessity, as obviously I will be writing ANYTHING BUT MY DISSERTATION]
5. Move to London [A bit of a given once I complete number 1]
6. Find a job once I graduate [I hear McDonalds are still hiring despite the credit crunch, so I should be fine]
7. Keep up with current affairs [I have a new alarm clock which is potentially my favourite object EVER- it wakes you up by gradually getting lighter and slowly increasing the volume of Radio 4, so I am woken up to hear intriguing tit-bits; this morning it was in relation to the male/female readership ratio of the Beano, which is 3/1. Fascinating]

Not too difficult. I was going to add #8- watch every episode of Masterchef goes Large, but seeing as I managed to achieve that last year it's not really any sort of challenge. Wish me luck.