Be it Resolved, Part II (for those paying attention...)
Another day another dollar, another year behind us. I care not to tallk about my New Year's, not that it was bad, but just because it lacked
zsa zsa zou and wasn't anything special. I did promise my sister that my first year in New York we're going to Times Square. Since I didn't get up until 3:30 and freezing rain is expected, I am staying in to start / finish my MIT essay today. Bordering on the postmodern pretentious, I think I am going to write about living in a world that is described by Baudrillard as a simulacrum where newness and originality is impossible - but at the same time, artists and everyone else are held to impossibly rigid standards of intellectual property. In otherwords, how can you have a culture of quotation (fakeness, artifice, copy) where appropriation is tantamount to stealing? That, give props to the Gugg, give a shout out to China... in a nutshell, why I am destined to bum around Cambridge for the next two years.
As for resolutions, I am lousy with sticking with things so we'll see how far these empty promises made in the optimistic January light take me. I should be more positive & less critical. I resolve to be responsible with money and treat the next 8 months as a time of taking in moolah, amass a small fortune, enjoy the joys of (albeit it meager) financial security. I resolve to be more forthcoming instead of running away - but at the same time, I'm just starting to understand how to be
smooth, thank you Sensei, and these lessons should be incorporated. In short, this year, I want to be
smooth and smart.
Holzer truism of the day: Turn soft and lovely every chance you get.
posted by lmjasinski at 3:43 PM
