What Are You Doing Next Year?

Right, so I'm updating my blog at eleven p.m. on New Year's Eve instead of being at whichever is the coolest party going, getting happily and obliviously drunk. But then I-Bankers are supposed to have depressing excuses for lives. The markets run on January 1 as they do on December 31 and January 2.

It is, however, a valid question. It isn't New Year's resolutions I mean - everyone makes them, nobody keeps them; it's at the point where even making jokes about unkept resolutions is old.

I mean things that you know, or at least are reasonably confident, that you will do. I, for instance, can say that I am going to become a tidy and organized individual, always be fully informed and aware of what is happening, and memorize Gone With The Wind. Those are my resolutions. I can also say that I will go to work every Monday morning and sit at my desk all week, making excel sheets and piling on adipose. That is what I am doing.

There are, no doubt, people for whom the opposite is true - people who will resolve to buckle down to honest labour but will spend the year taking cruises down the Nile or following the Indian cricket team from stadium to stadium. I suppose it's all part of maintaining the balance of the world.

What are you doing next year?