We come to the end of another calendar year, when thoughts may turn to resolutions for the upcoming year. Lose weight. Exercise. Be more patient. Learn to play the cello. Publish an article in one of the thirty "top twenty" journals. Reach the summit of Mount Everest. And the list could go on.
I suppose I should exercise. And I could be more patient at times. But none of the foregoing are specific resolutions I wish to declare.
But here's one. And maybe by sharing it in this post it will give me some sense of accountability.
Be it resolved that in the calendar year 2010 I will buy fewer books than I read. (I need to make a dent in the number of unread books I have at home -- probably a number north of 150.)
How about you? Care to share any specific resolutions for next year?
Interesting that you juxtapose placing an article in a top 20 law review and summiting Mt. Everest. According to a website I just visited, about 150 people summit Everest each year, and about 5 die. Hard to say how many try each year but in total over the years the number is between 4,000 and 6,000.
So it looks to me like it may be easier to climb Mt. Everest than to place in a top 20 law review, but as far as I know there are no recorded deaths arising out of the attempt to place in a law review. It's also a lot cheaper to place an article. My former law partner Lou Kasischke paid $60,000 in 1996 to be part of the ill-fated group that was the subject of Into Thin Air.
I think I'd go with being more patient.
Posted by: Jeff Lipshaw | December 31, 2009 at 05:18 PM