I think I accomplished an okay amount of things this year. I started a new job, paid off a decent chunk of my debt, set up ~20 punk shows, finally started my record label, released a record, made friends, went to North Dakota and generally lived life.
I've been thinking about some of my goals for next year, though. Here are some of them, in no particular order:
go to japan
set up mailchains.org
make at least one, but hopefully two shorts
start painting again
start seriously photographing again
be involved in an art show
finish paying off my debt
put out at least 4 records
go to california
visit my parents more
finish the script i'm working on
get logjamming up to snuff organizational-wise
make shirts, stickers and postcards (for my various projects)
go to garage sales with my roomates every weekend once the weather gets nice again
anotherben? said at 3:10 PM 12-12-2002: i would like to:
learn russian
learn how to make great soups
decrease my debt
go to another country for vacation
start writing a book
wash my car
plant a garden
read more books
climb a mountain
kayak on the ocean
see whales
hike a bit of the AT
build a tree house
anotherben? said at 5:53 PM 12-12-2002: just good soup. spinach mushroom? mushroom barley? raspberry bouillion? artichoke? i dunno. i have been looking around for the perfect soup pot for a while.. soup pots are expensive.
Shell said at 6:10 PM 12-12-2002: I _can_ help. Except with raspberry bouillion, because I refuse to cook with raspberries :). If you're interested, email me. I'll ask you a series of questions and maybe we can work together on this goal of yours for 2003 :).
Shell said at 2:51 PM 12-13-2002: Wait, what? Have I given you soup tips? I can't remember. Oh, and I'm holding your letter hostage. Will write you in French if you ever send me anything again. ;).
anotherben.. said at 11:06 AM 12-12-2003: wow! i suck. i did wash my car though. and:
..go to another country for vacation
..climb a mountain
..see whales
might all get knocked out when i go to seattle/olympic peninsula area at the end of the month.
shell sent me a very detailed soup recipe, but i never tried to make it.
zack [email] said at 3:11 PM 12-12-2002: in 2003 i will:
paint more
put out a new Studygroup12
finish work on my top secret color comic
go to a couple conventions.. maybe 3. (Mocca, & SPX for sure, maybe APE)
eat more healthily
fart alot
start working in earnest on my video game (i hope)
watch the matrix. (ha ha)
brandon [email] said at 3:12 PM 12-12-2002: 1) Move to D.C.
2) Get a job
3) Pay off debt
4) Go to UMD
5) Start runnnig again
6) Start a sloppy band
7) Eat things from the ground
8) Write something
9) Stop picking scabs
10) Stop eating scabs
kara [email] said at 3:33 PM 12-12-2002: 1) finish my magazine, at least 4 issues before deciding its a failure.
2) pay off MY debt.
3) publish at least 4 articles in magazines other than Atomic and my own
Lisa T. said at 3:42 PM 12-12-2002: oh, this is such a great idea! i hadn't even begun to think about my goals for next year. let's see...
1. pass the louisiana bar exam!!!!!
2. save more money
3. decrease my debt and start rebuilding my credit
4. stick to a budget
5. eat healthier and exercise more
6. clean my apartment more often
7. be an extra in a movie
8. take a trip to L.A. to visit my brother (and hopefully meet some celebrities)
9. call my family more often
10. get a tivo
11. switch from crappy dial-up internet service to dsl or cable
12. convince my technology-challenged parents to get web tv
Lisa T. said at 4:00 PM 12-12-2002: yeah, it was always one of my unspoken goals, too. but i figured i'd make it a spoken goal this time and then maybe i'd actually stick to it. hehe
xmeredithx [email] said at 4:24 PM 12-12-2002: in 2002 i...
--travelled a lot: chicago multiple times, vegas, new orleans
--cleared the air with my parents after 13 years of silence on a particular topic
--got engaged
--started contributing to other writing-type websites
--learned how to gamble and got addicted
--joined a coed hockey and got way better
--wrote a novel
in 2003 i'd like to...
--[maybe] write a short for josh
--edit the novel and self-publish it
--learn to play drums [anyone want to teach me?]
--not have a long-distance relationship anymore
--find a job i don't hate or stop hating this one so much
--rediscover my natural hair color
*carla* said at 5:45 PM 12-12-2002: -get my ass to arizona
-get a car
-either go back to school to be a teacher for lil' chilluns or go to school to become a makeup artist.
-Pay off my debts
-Stop obsessing about my weight
-Stop Procrastinating
-Perform in front of an audience with my guitar at least once
kiche [email] said at 10:10 PM 12-12-2002: 1) decrease my debt
2) lose weight/ get in shape
3) keep my room clean
4) focus on my job
5) write
6) dress better
7) meet people
i should do more but i am trying to focus myself presently.
Shell said at 7:51 AM 06-13-2003: Excellent question! After a delay. Not to say an abysmally long delay, exactly, just a delay, I sent Ben a treatise on soup.
norton [ url ] said at 12:25 AM 12-13-2002: One of my goals for 2002 was to stop being so jaded and cynical, but I took it a bit too far. 2003 will be the year of de-pussification.
Bendependent [email] said at 4:48 AM 12-13-2002: My favorite parts of this year were when I:
- was visited by nathan, heather, dave noellert, ida, rick, jenny, kyle, anna, my mom, my dad, crackhead chris, luster kaboom, quintron, panacea, xbxrx chris, zack, talice, rebecca, evan, kiche, and craig at the farm
- visited new york, baltimore, richmond, west virginia, chapel hill, baton rouge, new orleans, san francisco, chicago, san diego, los angeles, santa barbara, reno, palo alto, santa cruz, all of route 1 in california, and the entire country from san francisco to DC
- saw/met loren, kelly, scott, wil, anne, gary, jay, suzanne, seth, nate, courtney, sarah, max, lusterkaboom, leslie, arnie, dave brown, emily seese, anotherben, rini, craig, kiche, mandroid, & all the comicon gang
- got to go to skywalker ranch and see luke's lightsaber
- went to comicon, spx, the cartoon museum, and the buena yerba comic art show
- went to museums in new york
- missed mardi gras for the first and last time
- got to camp with angele by a big ass lake
- swam in forbidden lake
- got shitfaced drunk and puked all over mount pleasant
- had free use of an SUV for a week for some reason
- went to jenny and kyle's wedding
- tried to surf in santa barbara
- watched seth do a backflip in a grocery store line
- hung out with buzz a lot
- had an art show
- had tons of stuff published in the CityPaper
- drew stuff for wil (including the boxing gloves that were auctioned off for the EFF)
- did a comic for studygroup
- screenprinted posters for kara
- screenprinted shirts for the paper
- did a cd-rom for milky's girlfriend
- did daily comics for killoggs for several months
- did other drawings for tons of other people
- worked minimal hours at the dayjob
- taught web design summer camp for 5 weeks at UCLA and Stanford (about 200 kids)
- put the gameboy short in ayo's film festival
- helped tape brad to a chair
- played a shitload of video games
- played a lot of board games
- redesigned site
- took tons and ton of pictures and made pages for them
- saw fat day play at the farm
- saw fugazi play fort reno
- went to the apple butter festival
- danced in the streets with angele on sept. 11
- went to spellcaster halloween party
- went to comicon beach party
- had big party for angele's birthday
- started sending dave monsters in the mail
- sold and bought a lot of stuff on ebay
- read a lot of new comics
- watched a lot of free cable
- rode bikes some
- completed guns n roses vinyl collection
- got scooter started in the basement at 4am with zack
- kept van alive and working
- gave angele lots of kisses
- made paintings, filled three sketch/notebooks, developed different line styles to distinguish different projects, made new stencils, started doing block prints, and got to experiment with a lot of new art supplies
- went to a bunch of garage sales
- paid off another year of debt
- made enough money to not really have to work that much
- kept up with killoggs more or less & started doing journal entries
- locked the keys in brad's car in the middle of bumfuck iowa
- ate out almost every single meal all year
- saw very little daylight and had a lot of time to myself
- and broke a lot of stuff
Next year I don't want to do anything at all. I just want to lay in bed all year (with angele), occasionally getting up to eat cookie crisp cereal or to take a hot bubble bath.
ed [email] said at 7:13 AM 12-13-2002: I'll play!
1. move (happening January 11)
2. continue losing weight (pretty much a lock)
3. get a freaking job
4. learn Flash, improve knowledge of Photoshop and Dreamweaver
5. learn to speak/understand Japanese (this has been on my list for 6 years.)
6. finish a novel I started, then aborted, in November.
7. win the lottery (this has been on my list every year since Florida instituted a lottery.)
8. Buy the Batmobile (contingent on accomplishing #7.) Drive it around town just because I can.
9. Learn to play the bass guitar I got for Christmas last year.
10. Get laid a lot more. Seriously.
kaycee incognito said at 9:58 AM 12-13-2002: wow... i cant compete.
last year i....
graduated college
moved out of my favorite apartment
lived in new orleans
dumped a shitty boyfriend i had for a year and a half
gave my cats to my grandma (WAAAA!)
MOVED TO JAPAN (that counts for two)
made out in a shinto shrine
became a teacher
had great friends
blew too much fire
this year??? i want....
josh to come play in japan
steve to come and stay awhile (but not at the same time as josh... that might be troublesome hah hah)
speak better japanese
go to kyoto (oh, yeah, that'll be new years.. does that count?)
visit america again
get more hugs
post photos on killoggs
call my family more
keep running
crimp my hair
laugh
mary [email] said at 4:25 PM 12-14-2002: Maybe. But I would love the idea of Kaycee crimping her hair with my crimping iron on the other side of the world.
No face here said at 12:09 PM 12-13-2002: Alright 2003...here we go
I wanna:
Get out of debt
Get a job I enjoy at a radio station
Go see more shows
Start recording shows
Go to Switzerland
Eat more cheese...I really like cheese
And last but not least...Be more funny
NathanK said at 7:54 PM 12-13-2002: The choice for me in 2003:
*come back from Brazil alive
*get paid to record music
*ride motorcycle
*solve the four color theorem
*make up a new batch of dance moves
*pass two actuarial exams
*end racism, classism, fascism and war
*learn how to use a triple beam
kaycee incognito said at 11:50 PM 12-13-2002: YAY!!! good luck with the kana characters... get a manga comic book, that's how i memorized mine when i was in college....that and put them on notecards and looked at them again.. and again... and again.... or you could just come here, you learn em pretty fast when thereain't nothing else to look at.... :)
cyber hugs count .... and i can buy a crimping iron here, mary, but thanks for the offer... courtney is right, bu the time you paid the shipping i could buy two... :)
courtney [email] said at 1:21 AM 12-14-2002: we have TONS of manga around the house, I need to rustle them up. I also have kana cards, but haven't used them enough. I think I need to tape them up around the house or something...
If I go to Japan, that would help kill two of my goals with one stone. :)
mary [email] said at 4:50 PM 12-14-2002: I am the only person on killoggs whose goal is to acquire more debt. And I wanna do it by the end of this year. And I want a lot of it. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. yeah!
milky [email] said at 4:28 PM 12-20-2002: I'm in the process of covering my cubicle with enlarged killoggs heads. It will be very crowded when I get back.
I took some pics already, just need to post a link to them.
Denny [ url ] said at 12:39 PM 12-24-2002: In the year 2003, I would like to-
-make love to Josh ----.
-move into a house called the firtdarm.
-become a better drummer
-steal more stylish clothing.
-finish reading all the books I have that I haven't yet read.
-move out of my parents house.
-Go on tour, a lot.
-Push a midget to the ground.
-Compile all my poems and send them to publishers(I don't plan on anyone liking anything, I just want some feedback, whether I blow or not)
-Get a job that isn't super lame.
-Become a seal for a week.
josh [email] said at 1:11 PM 06-12-2003: Let's see, of those I have accomplished these in the first 6 months of the year:
-start seriously photographing again (not super seriously, but I am at least shooting some)
-visit my parents more
-make shirts, stickers and postcards (for my various projects)
-go to more shows
These look likely:
-finish paying off my debt (except for maybe my student loan)
-put out at least 4 records
-get logjamming up to snuff organizational-wise
We should start doing this this weekend:
-go to garage sales with my roomates every weekend once the weather gets nice again
Brandon looks back said at 1:23 PM 06-12-2003: 1) Move to D.C. -- Didn't happen, might for different reasons
2) Get a job -- Sort of happened with a nifty lateral move
3) Pay off debt -- Happened, but due to a healthy infusion of money from parents. Now I owe them, but at least they're not charging eleventy-percent interest charges.
4) Go to UMD -- No longer necessary.
5) Start runnnig again -- Has paid off in a big way, no more knee pains.
6) Start a sloppy band -- THIS NEEDS TO GET DONE NOW
7) Eat things from the ground -- accomplished over and over again.
8) Write something -- Yay, I kept this one, too.
9) Stop picking scabs -- still working on it.
10) Stop eating scabs -- having a hard time giving this one up
So, I'm batting about .500, not so bad. Still 202 days left in the year.
Bendependent [email] said at 7:57 AM 06-13-2003: Next year I don't want to do anything at all. I just want to lay in bed all year (with angele), occasionally getting up to eat cookie crisp cereal or to take a hot bubble bath.
josh [email] said at 9:41 AM 12-12-2003: Things on my list I accomplished:
start seriously photographing again (been shooting WAY more)
be involved in an art show (24 Hour photography show)
put out at least 4 records (more like 6, jesus)
visit my parents more (yay!)
make shirts, stickers and postcards (done a lot more of this type of stuff)
go to more shows (definitely)
Things I worked on but didn't finish:
go to garage sales with my roomates every weekend once the weather gets nice again (not every weekend, but we went a lot)
start painting again (i started to do this but really wasn't feeling it)
finish paying off my debt (worked on it, but the amount of records I put out hurt this goal)
Things I didn't:
go to japan (next year?)
set up mailchains.org (whoops)
make at least one, but hopefully two shorts (i just got a dvcam so this seems likely)
go to california (i need to do this)
finish the script i'm working on (i did okay with this goal until i heard about 28 Days Later which had basically the exact same premise, so that helped me decide to quit)
get logjamming up to snuff organizational-wise (i worked on this but not enough)
ed [email] said at 11:00 AM 12-12-2003: Things that I acoomplished:
1. move (happening January 11)
2. continue losing weight (pretty much a lock)
3. get a freaking job
Things I never got around to:
4. learn Flash, improve knowledge of Photoshop and Dreamweaver
5. learn to speak/understand Japanese (this has been on my list for 6 years.)
6. finish a novel I started, then aborted, in November.
7. win the lottery (this has been on my list every year since Florida instituted a lottery.)
8. Buy the Batmobile (contingent on accomplishing #7.) Drive it around town just because I can.
9. Learn to play the bass guitar I got for Christmas last year.
Things that, for obvious reasons, went completely down the shitter:
brianbibbly [email] said at 11:11 AM 12-12-2003: Things I accomplished:
1. Not Die.
2. Drink a lot.
3. Didn't lose any appendages.
4. Be a raging asshole.
