January 6, 2005

Predictions

As the new year begins, it's prediction time. I read these with a grain of salt, because, in my experience, human beings are often lousy prognosticators.

Here's why I like Ed Felton. Before making his 2005 predictions, he scored his previous annual forecast.

And check out the Wall Street Journal!

Finally, here are my predictions for 2005:

  1. I will eat at least one pizza this year, but probably more.
  2. Having run out of my preferred brand of unscented deodorant, I will be forced to use my emergncy backup: a two year old stick of Old Spice.
  3. I will go to a movie by myself.
  4. I will consider eating a slightly stale snackfood product, think better of it, and, finally, try to eat it anyway.
  5. Speaking of snackfood, I will eat an entire bag of Veggie Bootie in one sitting, and then feel guilty about it.
  6. This will be the year I read Jane Eyre. [Now I have to do it.]
  7. I will neglect my bjournal for days, and possibly weeks, at a time.
  8. I will stay up late working on my bjournal, when I should be sleeping. [Score!]

Posted by cradle at January 6, 2005 12:20 AM
Comments

I bet that reading Jane Eyre will help you score with the chicks. So will that old spice.

Posted by: Maureen at January 6, 2005 12:50 PM

Is there any way of eating Veggie Booty other than in one sitting?

Posted by: Maffalda at January 6, 2005 4:09 PM

I'm talking about the big-ass booty bags, though, not the convenient lunch sized offering of the food co-op. In theory, one should have a single "serving," seal the remainder in the bag, put the bag in the pantry, and then resist the temptation to go back to the pantry.

In theory.

Posted by: David at January 6, 2005 5:07 PM

What about that suitcase on your floor, now only partially unpacked from your holiday travels? When does that finally get unpacked and put away or get to its semi-permanent situation where it is holding old magazines instead of the clothes you packed for travel?

Posted by: Bob S at January 6, 2005 5:36 PM

Nah. You might forget you have it, then find half a bag of stale green stuff in your kitchen cabinet. Not worth it.
Unpacking suitcases, on the other hand, seems like something important. I bet your old magazines are in the pantry.

Posted by: Maffalda at January 7, 2005 3:44 PM

Oh my God, I'm not the only one with suitcase issues. The magazine storage is an original twist, though.

I have difficulty throwing away many of my magazines. I save the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Scientific American, Porn Connoisseur Quarterly, Cook's Illustrated, 2600 and some of the New Republic. I throw away Newsweek, though, but I clearly have a problem. These help, though.

Heloisa, my friend Maureen and I have considered going in on a case of Veggie Booty. Maybe we should go for it, if it is in fact OK to eat a bag at a time.

Posted by: David at January 7, 2005 6:19 PM

These are much cheaper and serve the same purpose!
"Porn Connoisseur Quarterly", huh? You might consider this book, I heard it's pretty good!
I think you should have a veggie booty party. The only risk is to get sick of it for a while. Then, again, you'd get back to it, right? A vice is a vice...
See you!

Posted by: Maffalda at January 7, 2005 6:42 PM

Yeah, Newsweek is definitely the one you want to get rid of. The information in them gets dated so quickly.

Anyone want three years of Newsweeks?

I predict that my suitcase will still be partially unpacked when I decide to finally move my bed into the master bedroom which has already been completely empty for three months now, and that I will not put the suitcase away then, but will "temporarily" move it as-is into the master bedroom so that it'll be right there in case I need something from out of it.

Posted by: Bob S at January 8, 2005 2:49 AM
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