Part of it was I just wasn't that productive. I did finish a whole slew of Talk To Me In Korean lessons, so that I'm much nearer my target goal of forty lessons finished. (1 - 5)
I also wrote a few more words in my ENG CRW project. (5 - 10)
Another weekly update (1 - 3) and comment (7 - 4).
I picked up The Poisonwood Bible. (3 - 3) It's pretty good so far, though I am a long way from finishing it.
I also finished—in a much shorter space of time—The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin. (9 - 2) This one warrants a review and reflection all of its own, but I did find it particularly relevant to what the stated purpose of 101 in 1001 is.
It's getting down to the crunch for this year's NaNoWriMo. I need to decide, soon, if I want to do it early (in October) or try to slog it out in November with everyone else while being a vagabond for my last month in Korea. Or, is it something that's not as important as everything else I want to do my last three months over here?
1. Self Reliance and Actualization
1. Finish 101 list (8 / 24)
2. Revise every 6 months (5) (Next one due: 1 January, 2013)
3. Post weekly updates (11 / 143)
4. Learn 500 Korean words (285 / 500)
5. Finish Talk to Me in Korean up to at least level 4 (30 / 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 (3 / 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
8. Get jeans hemmed
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
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)
6. Watch every MST3K episode (106 / 198)
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 (5018 / 25,000)
11. Participate in all available NaNoWriMos (3?)
12. Watch every Star Trek TOS episode (37 / 80)
13. Watch every extant episode of the first two Doctors (14 / ?)
6. Health
1. Finish C25K
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
3. Give feedback on "Camilla of Uijeongbu"
4. Comment on one other Mission 101 blog per week (11 / 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 (7 / 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
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)
84 / 101 written, 17 undecided.
8 / 101 finished!
I’ve been following a long, but it just occurred to me to ask two things:
ReplyDelete1. Is the "Go to Secret Caverns" referring to the one in NY? If so, we should make plans to meet up there. I want to see it as well. (I did go to Howe’s a while back)
2. Do you have any tips for organizing the start of one of these projects? I feel the need to set goals and get myself out of a funk, and this might do it.
It is! This is a thing we should do! I just need to call, like, the day of to make sure it's open. (The two other times I've tried to go it's been closed.)
DeleteAnd re: tips: Half of the items on my list are based on what I already do anyway. Like, X number of finished projects a month, or finish this unfinished thing, or whatever. Or things that I know I need to do. Basically, just make a to-do list (a really concrete, unambiguous to-do list. "Be more positive" != concrete or unambiguous)
DeleteAnd start on the first of a month, it just feels better that way.