Soon January will be upon us -- and once more my gym will be swarmed by swaths of New Yorkers who've swore that this will be the year they shed X number of pounds. Their ranks will thin by mid-month, and occupancy will dwindle to normal sometime around March. We all make New Years resolutions that we break -- sometimes over and over again. On the brink of this New Year, though, we want stories about a New Year's resolution that you kept -- and what held you to it.
Tag your stories "The New Years resolution I kept", and be sure to blog them by 10 AM EDT on Thursday, December 22nd. We'll feature our favorites on a special holiday cover on Open Salon, and we're hoping to cross-post a few on Salon as well.
whatsthematterwithks
Michael Humphrey
Charles Yoo
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com
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but, could you go look, right now, at the left feed on the home page? Do you think you and Cranky and Alysa, between the group of you could figure a way to kill the grey head spam attack? I mean, it's not even the weekend yet Emily.
@Mimetalker -- Hah! I can't think of one for myself off the top of my head either.
@Joan -- Looking forward to reading your contribution!
@trig -- Unfortunately I can't delete accounts before they go up on the site (and appear in the feed). Prod is working on ways to keep spammers from opening these accounts in the first place.
Is Prod an immigrant? Think you could give him (or her) a little kick in the britches? I've seen here at OS, hundreds of times, solutions to this very problem that you have Prod "working on" by very smart IT types that I am sure know what they are talking about Emily. Do you realize how tiresome the WORKING ON IT thing gets for us??
Rude? No it wasn't..
Whatever Emily
My second is to convince her to use one of mine.
Not to open packages/remove staples etc. with my fingernails,
ca. approximately 1992. Still stands today.
To slap myself in the face if I catch myself using "gay" in a derogatory way or "fag" in any way at all. Complete success-I have had to slap myself only once this month, down from perhaps a dozen in January of 2011.
Therefore, I've kept my resolution not to resolute.