This is as good a time as any to make some resolutions for the new year, especially because, in all honesty, last year was the first year of my life about which I feel more or less completely dissatisfied: I only wrote one short story, I wasn't ever in love, and as John Rhys-Davies might say, I had quite a few bad dates. On the bright side, I bought an expensive couch, learned a lot about index and hedge funds, and finally saw a story published (although it was a story that I had written three years ago and revised the year before). All in all, not much of a year. How to make the next one better? Well, I'm open to suggestions...