101 in 1001: Wednesday Update

That's two Sundays in a row I've been remiss! I have updated in other places, though; I'm not entirely delinquent.

I recently finished another book off the TIME Top 100 list: The Poisonwood Bible, which I cannot recommend strongly enough. Kingsolver creates nuanced characters that cover a broad moral spectrum. A lot of times in stories (whether in movies or literature), the bad guys either are too evil to be believed, or are believable but don't seem that bad. Kingsolver accomplished the Herculean task of creating perfectly believable and utterly evil people; people loathsome and terrible but, sadly, also people you could imagine meeting in real life. She also draws a detailed and infuriating picture of the Democratic Republic of Congo, from the late 50s up until more or less contemporary times—she wrote The Poisonwood Bible, it seems, with an agenda. Gird yourself for some White Liberal Guilt on this one.

I also went to Suwon fortress, all the way at the southern end of the Seoul Metro. It's one of the biggest (as in most famous) places to visit in South Korea and a UNESCO World Heritage site, so I'm glad I finally paid it a visit. I took so many pictures that they deserve their own later post.

In between that I've watched a few more episodes of Star Trek and Doctor Who.

The rest of my list is behind the jump.

1. Self Reliance and Actualization
1. Finish 101 list (9 / 24)
2. Revise every 6 months (5) (Next one due: 1 January, 2013)
3. Post weekly updates (12 / 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
5. Go to Jeju
6. Go to Gwangju
7. Go to Atlantic City
8. Go to Suwon Fortress


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 (5018 / 25,000)
11. Participate in all available NaNoWriMos (3?)
12. Watch every Star Trek TOS episode (41 / 80)
13. Watch every extant episode of the first two Doctors (14 / ?)


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 (12 / 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 (8 / 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)

85 / 101 written, 16 undecided.

10 / 101 finished!