101 in 1001

I finished one of my easier goals: I'm now caught up on The I.T. Crowd! (5 - 5) I also read a couple of books off the TIME Top 100 Novels list (3 -3): Martha Quest and Your Republic is Calling You.  Both of them were excellent; I really recommend them. I also watched a great 80s era Shaw Brothers flick, "Five Element Ninja." And I finished Stephen King's On Writing (9 - 2) as well as a few more Star Trek episodes (5 - 12).

I'm currently reading "Atonement," which is all right, but slow going.



1. Self Reliance and Actualization
1. Finish 101 list (6 / 24)
2. Revise every 6 months (5) (Next one due: 1 January, 2013)
3. Post weekly updates (9 / 143)
4. Learn 500 Korean words (200 / 500)
5. Finish Talk to Me in Korean up to at least level 4 (15 / 40)


2. Earthly Delights and the Root of All Evil
1. Finish Project Rae
2. Finish Project Rae-inspired bracelet
3. Make at least one new piece of jewelry every month (2 / 33)
4. Finish 3 books I've owned for over a year but haven't read yet
5. Close account at Shinhan bank
6. Collect pension
7. Wire money home


3. Local Places and Ideas
1. Go to Penn's Cave
2. Go to Secret Caverns
3. Read everything off the TIME Top 100 Novels list (59 / 100)
4. Go on a Uijeongbu photo safari
5. Go to Jeju
6. Go to Gwangju
7. Go to Atlantic City


4. Family
1. Find out Tess's maiden name
2. Email Mom-mom (1 / 12)


5. Entertainment and Creativity
1. Clean out music library
2. Organize music library
3. Watch the IMDB Top 100 Movies (fetched in October of 2009) (59 / 100)
4. Catch up on Community (18 / 18)
5. Finish IT Crowd (8 / 8)
6. Watch every MST3K episode (106 / 198)
7. Finish outlining screenplay
8. Write at least 45 pages of the screenplay (6 / 45)
9. Finish outlining novel
10. Write at least 25,000 words of the novel
11. Participate in all available NaNoWriMos (3?)
12. Watch every Star Trek TOS episode (35 / 80)
13. Watch every extant episode of the first two Doctors (9 / ?)


6. Health
1. Finish C25K
2. Weight train 2x a week (1 week)
3. Weight train 2x a week (2 weeks)
4. Weight train 2x a week (4 weeks)
5. Brush teeth every day (1 week)
6. Brush teeth every day (2 weeks)
7. Brush teeth every day (4 weeks)
8. Go to the dentist
9. Eat fresh produce every day (1 week)
10. Eat fresh produce every day (2 weeks)
11. Eat fresh produce every day (4 weeks)
12. Do morning calisthenics every day (1 week)
13. Do morning calisthenics every day (2 weeks)
14. Do morning calisthenics every day (4 weeks)

7. Relationships
1. Email Rudolfo
2. Give feedback on "Pug in a Slingshot"
3. Give feedback on "Camilla of Uijeongbu"
4. Comment on one other Mission 101 blog per week (9 / 143)
5. Give feedback on "A Picture of France Nyuen."


8. (Cleaning Out) Heavy Stuff
1. Private! (1 / 3)
2. FB purges (2)
3. Write my will


9. Broadening Horizons
1. Go to Cambodia/Philippines/Thailand (just one)
2. One non-fiction book a month (6 / 33)
3. Outline thesis argument
4. Find one good thesis source
5. One foreign movie a month (6 / 33)
6. One documentary a month (3 / 33)


10. Professionalism
1. Make Etsy about page
2. Get a FB page photo
3. Update FB daily 1 week
4. Update FB daily 2 weeks
5. Update FB daily 4 weeks
6. Blog 3x a week 1 week
7. Blog 3x a week 2 weeks
8. Blog 3x a week 4 weeks
9. Register a proper domain name
10. List a new item on Etsy daily 1 week
11. List a new item on Etsy daily 2 weeks
12. List a new item on Etsy daily 4 weeks
13. Get a blog header


11. Politicking
1. Vote in one local election (if possible)
2. Vote in one presidential election


12. A Helping Hand
1. Donate cast-off Korea clothing to Isaac's House.
2. Finish volunteer stint at the Great Vision school with only five or fewer absences.
3. Donate $100 in microloans
4. Donate $2 to a literacy charity for every unread book on the TIME Top 100 List
5. Donate $2 to the OLL for every unwatched movie on the IMDB Top 100 List
6. 30,000 more grains on FreeRice (26,000/30,000)

83 / 101 written, 18 undecided.

8 / 101 finished!