Updating Delightful To-Do List :)
Where am I in my to-do list I posted a while back? I thought I'd check and I found out that I'd actually achieved far more than I thought I had! Yay me! *bounce*
1. Write up 'not-research' project as last piece of assessment. Do kick ass job of the writing, enjoy the hell out of it and impress the socks off my tutor/lecturer who is about to go on lsl. Will be odd after 18 months to not have him for one of my units :)
Done! I got a Distinction for it :D
2. De-clutter my study yet again. Brainstorm for interim ideas for shelves that don't make me cringe. I'm stuck in a liminal space of possessions where, I'm still planning my Eastern States Tour, and so I don't actually want to spend heaps of time and money doing up my study to be *perfect* only to run away from it for 18 months... I'd rather do it when I come back. But I do want it to be a cosy haven of awesomeness that I delight to work in, sit in, read and drink tea in. More to think on there.
Part of the hard bit is, that I'd love to brainstorm with friends about cool and awesome, cute and odd but quirky and delightful (inexpensive) ideas... but the problem with this is that I won't like all of the ideas, and I don't want that to sound terrible and like I don't appreciate all the creativity and thoughtfulness... I feel bad saying 'friends! lend me your ideas!' and then rejecting a bunch of them cos they don't work for *me* or what I feel like is right for the room for me now. It may just me fretting over nothing - I'm willing to deal if this is the case.
3. Go for long walks with friends, with my phone (and thus with friends) and by myself. I've done quite a bit of this - though not as much as I like. I am *really* enjoying it as intimate catch up time.
4. Write stuff for liminal_boundaries and for the Kinky Feminists Carnival blogspace that I've offered to assist with the moderation of.
5. Write something for the down under feminists carnival.
6. Write something up of the interesting experience watching the bingo card of logic fallacies being played by people against well reasoned feminist/activist arguments.
7. Read the issues of Filament Magazine that recently arrived in the mail. Order a subscription for the future issues now that I have the back issues.
8. Listen to the music I've leeched and yoinked off people. Let go of what really doesn't work for me, see which of the 'so so' songs I come to like/love with more time, find new favourites and create playlists of various focuses with favourites/styles, find a not itunes way of buying some of the awesome songs from Last.fm that I've been loving. Suggestions welcome.
9. Get my blogfeed back under control - it's back up over 1000 entries again :P There'll be a chunk of scrolling in there, as I'm not interested in *everything* Lifehacker posts, but enjoy good chunks of it.
10. Drink lots of lovely tea. Read new books, re-read favourites.
I've been drinking *a lot* of really nice tea and this makes me happy :) I've also been reading some lovely books, no re-reads at this point though. Need to finish a couple I had to return to the library too :)
11. Spend time with friends and loved ones, planned and impulsive outings, and outlandish adventures. Fall in love with them and others often, randomly and for both profound and whimsical reasons. This is ongoing -it's always a constant on my inner to do list and it keeps ticking over. So this is happening - if without some of the more outlandish adventures I could imagine. But the falling in love? Oh yes.
12. Explore spaces of meditation and some related stuff.
13. Figure out how I can get my hands on a cello and some lessons in same, without huge initial outlay till I work out whether I love the practice as much as the idea of playing.
14. Practice some writing for a different space/audience. I have a project in mind for this.
15. Declutter bookmarks and 'to do' bookmarks and stuff - move stuff to Delicious as appropriate and get rid of the obsolete.
16. Try out belly dancing. This is part of a project in my head too.
17. Practice driving - particularly manuals so that I can get my P plates and come closer to spontaneous adventures all on my own. Driving my own awesome bus to wherever awesome town happens to manifest.
18. Figure out what to do for my 30th this year. Suggestions welcome. I have an idea, now trying to see if I can make it viable. I may have to enlist the creative inspiration of some key people :) Next is to pick a date in November!
19. Pick my third unit for next semester. Done! I'm doing (externally) Representations and Gender.
20. Figure out the job/money thing post this current contract. Done! Starting new contract soon, will be part time and a rate I can live off :)
21. Taste and drink lovely wine in good company. There should be more of this! But I have enjoyed some lovely wine here and there
22. Figure out Melbourne trip for Worldcon. See if I can somehow wadge another road trip in around this, particularly if it involves the Great Ocean Road, Tasmania, or the Nullarbor.
23. Buy a book or two and cross them off my growing list of feminist and culturally critical texts on one of my to-do lists. Bought my own copy of "Cunt", "The Feminine Mystique" and "Bitch" and have "How to Suppress Women's Writing" on order. Now to read them :)
24. Cook favourite and new things and have people over for dinner and other food like gatherings
25. Watch anime and other things that I've been meaning to and keep forgetting - I have no pending list at this time. Done! I've been watching Sailor Moon in Japanese with subtitles and am not ashamed to say that I'm really enjoying it!
So that's where I'm at with this list. Unsurprisingly there are new things to add :) But not in this post :)
This entry was originally posted at http://transcendancing.dreamwidth.org/778102.html
1. Write up 'not-research' project as last piece of assessment. Do kick ass job of the writing, enjoy the hell out of it and impress the socks off my tutor/lecturer who is about to go on lsl. Will be odd after 18 months to not have him for one of my units :)
Done! I got a Distinction for it :D
2. De-clutter my study yet again. Brainstorm for interim ideas for shelves that don't make me cringe. I'm stuck in a liminal space of possessions where, I'm still planning my Eastern States Tour, and so I don't actually want to spend heaps of time and money doing up my study to be *perfect* only to run away from it for 18 months... I'd rather do it when I come back. But I do want it to be a cosy haven of awesomeness that I delight to work in, sit in, read and drink tea in. More to think on there.
Part of the hard bit is, that I'd love to brainstorm with friends about cool and awesome, cute and odd but quirky and delightful (inexpensive) ideas... but the problem with this is that I won't like all of the ideas, and I don't want that to sound terrible and like I don't appreciate all the creativity and thoughtfulness... I feel bad saying 'friends! lend me your ideas!' and then rejecting a bunch of them cos they don't work for *me* or what I feel like is right for the room for me now. It may just me fretting over nothing - I'm willing to deal if this is the case.
3. Go for long walks with friends, with my phone (and thus with friends) and by myself. I've done quite a bit of this - though not as much as I like. I am *really* enjoying it as intimate catch up time.
4. Write stuff for liminal_boundaries and for the Kinky Feminists Carnival blogspace that I've offered to assist with the moderation of.
5. Write something for the down under feminists carnival.
6. Write something up of the interesting experience watching the bingo card of logic fallacies being played by people against well reasoned feminist/activist arguments.
7. Read the issues of Filament Magazine that recently arrived in the mail. Order a subscription for the future issues now that I have the back issues.
8. Listen to the music I've leeched and yoinked off people. Let go of what really doesn't work for me, see which of the 'so so' songs I come to like/love with more time, find new favourites and create playlists of various focuses with favourites/styles, find a not itunes way of buying some of the awesome songs from Last.fm that I've been loving. Suggestions welcome.
9. Get my blogfeed back under control - it's back up over 1000 entries again :P There'll be a chunk of scrolling in there, as I'm not interested in *everything* Lifehacker posts, but enjoy good chunks of it.
10. Drink lots of lovely tea. Read new books, re-read favourites.
I've been drinking *a lot* of really nice tea and this makes me happy :) I've also been reading some lovely books, no re-reads at this point though. Need to finish a couple I had to return to the library too :)
11. Spend time with friends and loved ones, planned and impulsive outings, and outlandish adventures. Fall in love with them and others often, randomly and for both profound and whimsical reasons. This is ongoing -it's always a constant on my inner to do list and it keeps ticking over. So this is happening - if without some of the more outlandish adventures I could imagine. But the falling in love? Oh yes.
12. Explore spaces of meditation and some related stuff.
13. Figure out how I can get my hands on a cello and some lessons in same, without huge initial outlay till I work out whether I love the practice as much as the idea of playing.
14. Practice some writing for a different space/audience. I have a project in mind for this.
15. Declutter bookmarks and 'to do' bookmarks and stuff - move stuff to Delicious as appropriate and get rid of the obsolete.
16. Try out belly dancing. This is part of a project in my head too.
17. Practice driving - particularly manuals so that I can get my P plates and come closer to spontaneous adventures all on my own. Driving my own awesome bus to wherever awesome town happens to manifest.
18. Figure out what to do for my 30th this year. Suggestions welcome. I have an idea, now trying to see if I can make it viable. I may have to enlist the creative inspiration of some key people :) Next is to pick a date in November!
19. Pick my third unit for next semester. Done! I'm doing (externally) Representations and Gender.
20. Figure out the job/money thing post this current contract. Done! Starting new contract soon, will be part time and a rate I can live off :)
21. Taste and drink lovely wine in good company. There should be more of this! But I have enjoyed some lovely wine here and there
22. Figure out Melbourne trip for Worldcon. See if I can somehow wadge another road trip in around this, particularly if it involves the Great Ocean Road, Tasmania, or the Nullarbor.
23. Buy a book or two and cross them off my growing list of feminist and culturally critical texts on one of my to-do lists. Bought my own copy of "Cunt", "The Feminine Mystique" and "Bitch" and have "How to Suppress Women's Writing" on order. Now to read them :)
24. Cook favourite and new things and have people over for dinner and other food like gatherings
25. Watch anime and other things that I've been meaning to and keep forgetting - I have no pending list at this time. Done! I've been watching Sailor Moon in Japanese with subtitles and am not ashamed to say that I'm really enjoying it!
So that's where I'm at with this list. Unsurprisingly there are new things to add :) But not in this post :)
This entry was originally posted at http://transcendancing.dreamwidth.org/778102.html