So the last few years I have made a resolutions/predictions post around the beginning of the year. It is just fun to do and then look back at how I accomplished those goals and if I should quit the teaching racket and pursue a career in being a psychic. I hope you don't think I am boasting about myself here. I had to do this all the time when I was teaching full time. I had to make all these lists of goals and then fill out how I accomplished them and I also had to evaluate myself and my teaching and then compare it with the principal's evaluation of me.
Let's begin with my resolutions from 2008.
My resolutions for 2008:
1. I will try being more considerate. I know I explain to people that I am an insensitive asshole but they say I am not and then I don't introduce them to the band so I am. (This was from last December 30th when I took some friends to see a band in Madison. I went to high school with a couple guys in the band and before the show these guys saw me because I am easy to pick out in a crowd and we were talking. Well, I wasn't so nice and didn't introduce them to the people I was with. I think I did OK at this one but I still am an insensitive asshole.)
2. I am going to be more outgoing. (I think I accomplished this one. I have been more outgoing especially here on Xanga. I think my list of blogs I read has gone up and I try to be kind and comment or leave some form of acknowledgment that I enjoyed their post. I think my list of friends and readers has went up by about 230+ people and I am getting hundreds of more footprints per day. Maybe that isn't outgoing on my part but it means that I am reaching people.)
3. I am going to get more interested in local news because things are happening in this state and I am so far behind. (I didn't accomplish this one. I get so frustrated with the local news. The town where I live has a weekly paper and it is mostly filler and ads. I can't get local news. I am considering starting a boycott of the paper until they start printing real news instead of articles about how to avoid hemorrhoids and proper pet brushing techniques.)
4. I am going to become engaged or married. Pretty lofty since I am single. (FAIL!)
5. I am going to get back into fulltime teaching (FAIL! When schools around these parts were doing their interviewing and hiring, I was fighting for health in the hospital, a fight I have yet to win.)
6. I am going to be more active. (I guess you could say this is one that may be true. With all the times I had to go to the hospital and do tests, I felt pretty active.)
My Resoultions for 2009
1. I am going to be a better person in my mind.
2. I am going to do volunteer work such as working at the library across the street or some after school mentoring.
3. I am going to start working on a Master's.
4. I am going to brew my own beer, wine, or cider.
5. I am going to make some drastic moves with the stock market.
6. I will get that full time teaching job or staff writing job.
So my predictions for 2008:
1. The election will make many people apathetic towards politics. My predictions are that Barack Obama wins every primary but does not get the nomination. Hillary will get the nomination. The Republicans will be split because even though Mike Huckabee wins primaries Mitt Romney will win the nomination. Christians will form their own party and run Huckabee. Ron Paul will not get any credible media coverage and he will end up running as an independent and he will get the conspiracy theorist vote. Even if he doesn't run as an independent, he will receive many write-in votes. (Damn! I am glad this didn't play out. First off I think people got more interested in politics with this election. It has taught us that every vote counts, just look at Minnesota. I was surprised that there wasn't some split in the Republican party simply because the Religious Groups had a hard time backing McCain because of his personal life. Ron Paul did garner a lot of write-in votes especially in my home town. Obama won with 400 votes, McCain had about 250 and Paul had about 100.)
2. I will be apathetic to some major human interest story. I know I predicted this last year but I was right and it is so easy to predict.(This one easily came true. Caylee Anthony...Stacy Peterson...they force that crap down my throat and I don't care. There are people who die all across America with darker skin but it doesn't garner media attention.)
3. I am going to get a job writing for a primetime comedy on a major network. (I wish I could say that this week I got a writing job but I didn't.)
4. We will be paying more for gas than this year. It was $3.09 today and probably will go up tomorrow since oil prices jumped to over $100 a barrel. (This one is partly true. For awhile this summer gas hit $4 a gallon but then it took drastic drops. Currently it's at $1.89 because they introduced a tax to help the tourism industry because no one is coming to Wisconsin because of gas prices. I don't get the logistics on that one...tax the gas prices because the gas prices were too high and people didn't come from out of state to visit.)
5. The sports world will be rocked when a current player or recently retired within the last three years commits suicide. (I hate to say it but I was actually sort of close with this one in the early NFL season when Vince Young reportedly made suicidal comments to his teammates and family members but was found playing video games at a friend's house by the police.)
Predictions for 2009
1. Since it has worked the past two years, I'll go with it it again, I will become apathetic to a major news/human interest story.
2. I don't see Joe Biden lasting that long as vice president. Not because he gets hurt or ill, but because he has a falling out with Obama.
3. After spending $432 million in the free agent pool and building a new stadium, the New York Yankees will declare bankruptcy. They also won't make the playoffs.
4. Gas will be priced at over $3 a gallon and then will rise even higher after terrorist attacks in Saudi oil fields
5. There will be martial law declared in America.
6. There will be a record amount of homicide and suicide in America due to a worsening economic situation which will see unemployment hit 20%.
7. The Obamas will chose a cocker spaniel.
8. Bill Clinton and W Bush will get in a fight over the rug...I couldn't resist after hearing Clinton say, "I love that rug."
9. The U.S. and Canada will combine currency and call it the Amero but Mexico will be excluded.
10. There will be a breakthrough in the discovery of a treatment for AIDS.
11. A major band or group of celebrities will meet their demise in a plane crash.
12. Bees will be declared an endangered species.
13. America will no longer stand by Israel after allegations of genocide begin to surface after the military operation in Gaza Strip.
14. Disney will buy the rights to license Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Cupid, and the Tooth Fairy.
15. Osama bin Laden will finally be captured
So those are my predictions. I know they might be vague but look at Nostradamus. He was vague as hell and people consider him to be the best. I saw a guy last night explain how the name Mabus could have been Nostradamus predicting Osama, Sadam, and even W. Bush.
These were my predictions for 2007 and how I interpreted them in 2008:
1. There will be a political scandal. I am pretty sure this one will come true.(Larry Craig? Bathroom stalls? Benazir Bhutto?)
2. The major news networks will make me apathetic when it comes to a story of human interest. This year I was supposed to feel sorry for the mountain climbers that got stuck on Mt. Hood. I did at first but after being bombarded by the coverage of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, I began to feel uninterested and apathetic. A few years ago I remember the saga of Elizabeth Smart. One of the reasons this event sticks in my mind is that a couple of pastors of my particular denomination argued over whether it was appropriate, Biblical, and sinful to pray for someone of a different religion. Well truth be told, I cared about this case in the early stages. I prayed that God would return her to her parents, safe and unharmed. Well at least she got back to her parents. (I became apathetic to the miners who got stuck in various mines across the country.)
3. The U.S. will be militarily involved in a new war in the Middle East. I'm looking at you, Iran, and you, Israel. (This one did not come true, thank god. It did come close a few times after Ademainaahjab or however you spell it made threatening comments about starting World War 3....oh wait that was George Bush)
4. Sometime between February 2007 and February 2008 I will die. Now that probably shocked some of you. Well don't go thinking I am suicidal. Just because I am unemployed, am single, am slightly overweight, and have significant amounts of body hair, I am not suicidal. No, I am not such a fan of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Robert Johnson, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain that I plan on joining their club, but since I was a young child I have sensed an untimely demise. I guess if I don't die then my future as a psychic is ruined. (Well I still have two months to go. I came damn near close by having an asthma attack while shoveling)
I hope your 2009 will be more relaxing then our new president's. He's going to need a lot of those with the economy that Captain Cuckoo Bananas has left him.
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