The New Year
First of all, I have always really loved new year's resolutions and I have always been pretty bad at following through. This year, I do feel an added pressure to start taking better care of myself since I will soon be a health care professional (though that is still kind of unimaginable to me). So, I hereby publicly declare that I will endeavor to do some things differently. I am going to try to start out with baby steps and build from there.

#1 - Some physical activity each day. To start with, I am not setting time or activity requirements. Just something every day. Even if it is only stretching before bed.

#2 - Keeping track of what I eat every day. Not in the calorie-counting, dieting kind of way. I am not writing down specifics. Just a general description, so that I have a rough idea. And I think after a few weeks of doing that, I'm going to make more of a plan of how to eat better. Mostly, I know there need to be more vegetables. Also, drink more water.

#3 - Writing something each day. Again, not saying how long or what. Could be a letter, could be a blog post, could be a nice little note to my boyfriend. I just like taking a little time each day to focus on expressing a thought eloquently or, if not eloquently, coherently.

So, those are the initial goals. Subject to modifications.

On another note, I have been having to read a lot about health care policy lately for class, especially as it relates to public health, and I am finding it difficult not to be incredibly depressed about the state of the American health care "system" which is not actually a system in any coherent sense of that word. So I will probably have some thoughts about all of that at some point. But in the meantime, I hope everyone is feeling happy and healthy. Thanks for reading.