Happy 2007!

It's a new year again! But since it's so cliché to talk about "new year's resolutions" and "fresh starts," I'll make a statement of goals for this year.

• Love God with all my heart, demonstrating that love with prayer and with compassion for my friends and neighbors
• Love Elle and honor her with my words and actions
• Love my family, honoring the investments that they have made in me and (of course) calling more often
• Finally earn my multi-engine commercial rating (which should be within the next two weeks) and fly the Aztec enough with an instructor to qualify for insurance so that I can fly it myself. Additionally, I have promised to take Alex, Autumn, and Ben Margolis (I think?) flying.
• Find a good summer internship either in Washington or in SoCal. The surest bet would seem to be Green Hills Software right now, since I've actually interviewed and will visit in two Fridays. The work they do isn't the exact field I'm looking for, since I'd like to end up doing programming for entertainment media such as games or movies, but the work does sound exciting. I have also sent resumes to some other companies, including Microsoft.
  
• Bring up my GPA (i.e. no more C's! -- at least my C+ this semester was amid 3 A's and 2 A-'s)
• Finish my Sudoku project
• Program a computer player for the XNA game studio "Space War" example game (i.e. single-player mode)
• Keep a weekly (at least) journal/blog here. (There are long stretches of school for which I don't really have any account, and that makes me sad. 'Cause I definitely forgot a lot of core math that I've discovered I need.)
  

and of course

• World peace (what list of goals is complete without it? Maybe I need "Cure cancer," too...)
  

I'll try to keep track of these goals this coming year.