So it's Lent again (Happy Ash Wednesday! Chinese New Year! Islamic New Year!*), and I'm wondering if there's anything I dare to give up this year.

I've already cut down on the sugar quite a bit and I'm pretty sure if I try to give it up altogether, I would be dooming myself to failure. Since sxswi is smack dab in the middle of the season, and I average less than a drink every two weeks anyway, giving up alcohol seems dumb. I could give up driving so much, but that's a cop-out, because it takes less than 10 minutes for me to get to work now, and since I've moved to the East Bay, I don't have quite the social life I had in the Peninsula, so I am driving less regardless.

I could give up laziness, and actually get my apartment unpacked and do some exercise that isn't carrying boxes up and down stairs. I could give up this feeling that since I don't find myself attractive, that no one else can - and the feeling that if no one else finds me attractive then I'm not worth as much as the next girl.

The intangibles are hard, though. I may just go back to giving up chocolate.

*I love my new calendar.