Personally, I regard New Year's resolutions with a touch of suspicion. Perhaps it comes from all the time I spent in the service industry, observing what waiters and mixologists refer to as the December 31st Phenomenon: emptying nightclubs juxtaposed against suddenly overflowing gyms; restaurants depopulated while formerly exuberant diners demonstrate an all consuming appetite for diet books and wheat grass juice. Oh, how very quickly all the dancing stops! Longtime bartenders know to save the tips they earn ringing in the New Year to accommodate the staggering loss of income between January 1st and Valentines Day, by which time business generally returns to normal. This is not cynicism, Dear Reader, but only an acknowledgement that — no matter how genuine the desire to improve ourselves might be — old habits die hard.
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