Lost Journal
by Tim Mollen
as published in
The Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
December 28, 2006
New
Year’s Resolutions for 1993
Journal
Entry: January 1, 1993 (age 23)
As
a young man in my 20s, I am brimming with idealism and drive.
I will use those gifts to make 1993 the very finest year since 1989.
Here are my New Year’s resolutions.
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Move
out of my parents’ house again, with plans to move back in within a year.
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Re-open
the dormant Orange Julius kiosk in the Oakdale Mall, sparking a race to
unseat the Mall of America in Minneapolis as the largest shopping mall in
the country.
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Sign
up for the long-delayed universal health care ID card.
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Launch
write-in campaign to cushion the news of the cancellation of TV’s Saved
by the Bell with a spin-off called Teenage Mutant Lisa Turtle,
starring underrated beauty Lark Voorhies.
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Dig
in for a long fact-finding mission to determine if Whitney Houston is
serious when she sings that she (ee-ee) will always love her bodyguard,
Kevin Costner.
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Adopt
grunting technique from tennis great Monica Seles; use it whenever I put on
or remove a jacket.
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Convince
the British delegation to the United Nations that it was a grave mistake to
allow Mauritius to become a republic, while remaining in the Commonwealth of
Nations. It illuminated the
first fissure in the Empire.
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Marry
CNN Headline News anchor Lynne Russell.
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Give
in to the inescapable tide of fashion and start wearing all of my pants and
shirts backwards like Kris Kross. (Note:
This does not apply to fluorescent, tiger-striped pants such as those
favored by Joey Buttafuoco, which do not have a front or back.)
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Petition
President-elect Clinton to continue his predecessor’s policy of
regurgitating in the laps of foreign dignitaries.
Urge him to use the “bully vomit” to confront domestic
adversaries as well.
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Write
to Carson Daly, a theology student at Loyola Marymount University, and
totally request that he heed the call of the Lord and avoid a career in
broadcasting.
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In
Seattle, publicly launch my new fragrance, Teen Spirit.
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Send
begrudging congratulations to Nobel Laureate Rudolph Marcus for beating me
to the punch with his mathematical analysis of how the overall energy in a
system of interacting molecules changes and induces an electron to jump from
one molecule to another.
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Brace
myself for continued inability to secure an interview for the position of
assistant stock boy at the Gap.
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Pioneer
use of fledging “Internet” technology as a means to send chain letters
in a new and exciting way. |