I found the website for our local shih tzu/lhasa apso rescue. I cried…several times. These poor little guys have been so mistreated and unloved. I want dogs. Too bad I live alone and have crazy hours (until the summer, at least). Maybe when I move into a house…someday…
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1. love my neighbor
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2. encourage other people
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3. Do something about educational inequality in the United States
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4. learn to eat intuitively
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5. pay off student loans
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6. get a job i love
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7. start exercising regularly
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8. ace the GRE test
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9. Learn Spanish
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10. Make new friends
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11. learn to dance
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12. watch every episode of the Simpsons
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13. knit a sweater
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14. Do 10 REAL pushups.
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15. Dress better
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16. get better at DDR
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17. learn to cook better
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18. Improve my French
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19. improve my German
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20. speak 5 languages
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21. Write more thank you notes
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22. send a card or letter each week
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23. be a better friend and email/phone/see friends on regular basis
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24. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
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25. Kiss in the rain
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26. Take more photos
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27. Learn to surf
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28. visit all seven continents
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29. learn to play piano
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30. take an art class
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31. go back to Paris
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32. hike the appalachian trail
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33. run a marathon
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34. live on the east coast
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35. own a hybrid car
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36. have better posture
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37. drink more green tea
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38. stop wasting time
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39. save money
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40. apply to grad school
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41. adopt shih tzus
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42. lose weight
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43. get my teaching contract renewed
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Ok…I have once again embarked on my exercising journey. I worked out 5 out of 7 days this week, and I still plan on doing a yoga video before bed today, which would bump me up to 6 days. I found a latin aerobics class which is absolutely amazing. The instructor is actually from Latin America. She is actually more of a choreographer than instructor; most of the diehards in the class have all of the routines memorized, and newbies like me hang on for dear life as we try to keep up with all the bouncing, shimmies, and booty shaking. There is, in fact, so much booty shaking that a group of at least 5 men stands outside of the class staring in at the gyrating women. Thankfully, I scouted out a place as far from the window as possible.
The last bit of this essay is so profound:
“It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor. The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor’s glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal…And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner – no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”
