I don’t generally go in for making New Years resolutions, most of them sound kind of lame; lose weight, eat better, exercise…. January is a horrible time to do all of those, and if you need to do them you probably need to start as soon as you realize it.
But I got one this year, and it’s because I happen to be making changes at the same time as the new year rolls around. I’ve resolved to make more progress than I’ve made in the last few years to get out of this awful town. It’s different this time because I have a plan, a job to go out and get, survive for just long enough, and all things go right this time next year I’m planning my move to a place where the state top education official DOESN’T call teachers “terrorists”, or get bomb threats called in on local middle schools. I know a lot of people who live here have no idea… but I’ve wanted to have children since I got old enough to have sex….. and I stopped believing here was a safe place to do that five years ago.
There’s other things. A big one is climate, though this time of year that’s a bit more of a sell. See, I want real winter. What we get is rain and occasional snow that melts before two days pass. Then in summer our heat and humidity kill people, and not the people you want. I tried to force myself into going that way, and I’m too damn fit. No, it kills the elderly and people with chronic medical conditions.
I won’t lie, accessability to an achievable death is part of it. I can wander off in a northern winter and fricken vanish…. though I hope it’s better enough I don’t need to.
That’s my resolution, get out while I’m still young enough to enjoy it, anyone else got a good one?