RP in 2008

2008, so far, is 100% worth living.

In 2005, RP did 462 things, went 38 places, met 1 person, and consumed 11 products.

Years: 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. declare Feb 1-7 Hasselhoff Avatar week — completed 13 days later
  2. battle torpor — completed about 1 month later
  3. Celebrate with SnickerdoodleMacBear as he turns 1 year old on January 29th — completed 25 days later
  4. Vote for Ms. Bryce to win an appearance on Lifetime's "How to Look Good Naked" — completed 4 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. New Mexico — Worth visiting!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. give a good paper in Claremont — completed 10 days later
  2. survive 1 week without sweets — completed 15 days later
  3. go one week without drinking pop — completed 19 days later
  4. Survive This Week!! — completed 17 days later
  5. get moved in — completed about 1 month later
  6. get my glottis pierced
  7. Be seriously hot at 35 — completed 2 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Research in the Library of Congress — Worth doing!
  2. go sea kayaking — Worth doing!
  3. declare Feb 1-7 Hasselhoff Avatar week — Worth doing!
  4. Challenge myself this fall! — Worth doing!
  5. Plan, prepare and practice — Worth doing!
  6. battle torpor — Worth doing!
  7. challenge myself over Christmas break — Worth doing!
  8. Declare 12 Feb-19 Feb Roman de Tirtoff avatar week — Worth doing!
  9. see the atlantic ocean in multiple locations — Worth doing!
  10. make three syllabi and three bibliographies — Worth doing!
  11. Celebrate with SnickerdoodleMacBear as he turns 1 year old on January 29th — Worth doing!
  12. getting money to study in Britain next summer and to go to kick-ass special collections in the US — Worth doing!
  13. list the things eating at me — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. sending Christmas cards
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Paolo — met 27 days later
Listened to:
  1. Emotionalism — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Smiles Of A Summer Night - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  2. La Collectionneuse — Worth consuming!
  3. Trouble in Paradise - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. candlenuts — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. — completed 26 days later
  2. do my 2007 taxes — completed 21 days later
  3. try yoga — completed about 1 month later
  4. Clean my office
  5. Choose my wedding colors. — completed 2 months later
  6. be cheered "in the future ago" — completed 2 months later
  7. feel the fear and do it anyway — completed 2 months later
  8. give 3900 cheers — completed 2 months later
  9. Develop a five year career plan
  10. don't eat sweets for 43 days excepting Sundays
  11. declutter my life
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. give a good paper in Claremont — Worth doing!
  2. drop 43 pennies in random places so that people can find them and feel lucky
  3. Wish GrammaG a fun-filled 31st birthday on March 5th! — Worth doing!
  4. survive 1 week without sweets — Worth doing!
  5. go one week without drinking pop — Worth doing!
  6. don't eat sweets for 43 days — Worth doing!
  7. Survive This Week!! — Worth doing!
  8. Make a list of all of the NC counties I've had paying gigs in
  9. Spend an obscene amount of time on the interwebs
  10. shred my 1999 documents — Worth doing!
  11. doing my physical therapy every day for 43 days — Worth doing!
  12. See a green flash. Or at least watch Rohmer's "Le rayon vert" again. — Worth doing!
  13. get ready for a productive and fun summer in Austin TX, Carrboro, NC, Ann Arbor, MI and London — Worth doing!
  14. be surrounded by obsequious toadies
  15. put more weight on my left foot — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. learn to love my job
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. MeeBEEM
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Paolo

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. teach the cat to use the kitty door — completed 16 days later
  2. see "The Savages" — completed 27 days later
  3. survive this semester — completed 21 days later
  4. encourage everyone to display their "recent activity" to make it easier to cheer their comments — completed about 1 month later
  6. Find the perfect person to teach me the next thing I need to know — completed about 1 month later
  7. go walking three times a week
  8. get married — completed 4 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Find a new home for my abandoned houseplants — Worth doing!
  2. find out from at least 43 43'ers how they got their user names — Worth doing!
  3. get paid to do research — Worth doing!
  4. figure out why Dreamweaver keeps quitting before it starts on my Mac — Worth doing!
  5. Be "Ripped"
  6. make tourtiere filling — Worth doing!
  7. decide what I want to see when I'm in London — Worth doing!
  8. get a Library of Congress ID card — Worth doing!
  9. get moved in — Worth doing!
  10. Share in the 2007 43Things holiday card exchange — Worth doing!
  11. Put last semester behind me for good — Worth doing!
  12. call to order a meeting of the "Slightly Off" Club — Worth doing!
  13. declare 01 - 07 September The Beatles Avatar Week — Worth doing!
  14. make them rue the day they underestimated me
  15. meet someone from 43things — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. see the day G.W.Bush is gone for good
  2. Discourse and Dish: a Literary Round Table & Informal Salon
  3. stop acting so eager
  4. get my glottis pierced
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Stern Grove — Worth visiting!
  2. M.H. de Young Museum — Worth visiting!
  3. Dolores Park — Worth visiting!
  4. Golden Gate Park — Worth visiting!
  5. Haight-Ashbury — Worth visiting!
  6. Mission District — Worth visiting!
  7. Noe Valley — Worth visiting!
  8. San Francisco Downtown Public Library — Worth visiting!
  9. Ann Arbor District Library — Worth visiting!
Consumed:
  1. spice rack — Worth consuming!
  2. kitty door — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  3. make strawberry jam — completed about 19 hours later
  4. Wish ToddieM a "Foot"-Stompin, "Sole"-fully Delightful Birthday on May 18th — completed 13 days later
  5. make jam — completed about 20 hours later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. combat anxiety — Worth doing!
  2. resist hibernation — Worth doing!
  3. Wish Waltr a super birthday on May 5th! — Worth doing!
  4. Celebrate Jennalicious's Cinco de Mayo Birthday Fabulously — Worth doing!
  5. Wish A Whole New Jack a "swimmingly good" birthday on May 5th — Worth doing!
  6. admit that I live in California (aka, register the car)
  7. make someone happy — Worth doing!
  8. be a professor
  9. teach the cat to use the kitty door — Worth doing!
  10. Wish Agent Ish a "simply beautiful" birthday on May 5th! — Worth doing!
  11. put photos on CD(s) and pack — Worth doing!
  12. pack oral history recordings — Worth doing!
  13. sort out my finances — Worth doing!
  14. stay up all night
  15. clean and organize this apartment stem to stern by 5/25/07 — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. finish souping up my legacy laptop
Consumed:
  1. Finale — Worth consuming!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. what the heck... try getting up early in the morning to write before the work day starts - just in case it turns out I am capable of doing this
  2. see more silent films — completed 24 days later
  3. Give Gemmword lots of love and hugs — completed about 1 month later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. make strawberry jam — Worth doing!
  2. Wish ToddieM a "Foot"-Stompin, "Sole"-fully Delightful Birthday on May 18th — Worth doing!
  3. make jam — Worth doing!
  4. get on the bike — Worth doing!
  5. lose 1 pound
  6. attend a Cleveland Indians game — Worth doing!
  7. Have subscribers — Worth doing!
  8. back up my hard drive — Worth doing!
  9. kiss in the fog — Worth doing!
  10. Brainstorm on the next 43T meetup- possibly in Albuquerque — Worth doing!
  11. mourn the loss of Pennsylvania's own Praxiteles - where oh where art thou ? — Worth doing!
  12. have 30 lovely subscribers — Worth doing!
  13. be in Sweeney Todd — Worth doing!
  14. make homemade stock — Worth doing!
  15. eat a hot, fresh krispy kreme doughnut — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Stop wearing so much black clothing
  2. submit a proposal to AMS
  3. let people know about Shane's quest
  4. List 43 Men I Would Definitely Kick Out of My Bed
  5. reflect daily on what I've read that day
  6. making bath salts
  7. go back to Wales
  8. work out what exactly is going on...
  9. don't eat sweets for 43 days excepting Sundays
  10. Learn MySQL
  11. meet up with other 43thingers in Alameda for a tropical drink
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Oregon
  2. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Pike Place Market — Worth visiting!
  2. Mackinac Island — Worth visiting!
  3. Cafe Flora — Worth visiting!
  4. The Triple Door — Worth visiting!
  5. Dick's Drive-In: Queen Anne — Worth visiting!
  6. Uptown Cinemas — Worth visiting!
  7. Bing's — Worth visiting!
  8. Madison Park — Worth visiting!
  9. Green Lake Park — Worth visiting!
  10. Green Lake District — Worth visiting!
  11. Ballard — Worth visiting!
  12. The Seattle Public Library - Central Library — Worth visiting!
  13. Daily Dozen Donut Co. — Worth visiting!
  14. Lowell's Restaurant & Bar — Worth visiting!
  15. Point Reyes National Seashore — Worth visiting!
Consumed:
  1. oil cloth tablecloth — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. only eat when I'm hungry
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. do my physical therapy every day for 43 days — Worth doing!
  2. read The Waning of the Middle Ages — Worth doing!
  3. see more silent films — Worth doing!
  4. get rolfed — Worth doing!
  5. act like a professional musician again — Worth doing!
  6. make a list of what I have to do and do it — Worth doing!
  7. stop leaving dishes in the sink — Worth doing!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. write thank you notes
  2. start a chamber music festival
  3. "Clean sweep" my life up to 85%
  4. do my physical therapy habitually for a year
  5. l'enfant prodigue reunion tour
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. take kayaking classes — Worth doing!
  2. stop procrastinating — Worth doing!
  3. see Feist in concert
  4. Give Gemmword lots of love and hugs — Worth doing!
  5. get married — Worth doing!
  6. try belly dancing — Worth doing!
  7. keep a book list this summer — Worth doing!
  8. take a belly dancing class. — Worth doing!
  9. plan a trip to Ann Arbor this summer, to see fairy doors and old friends — Worth doing!
  10. live in Ann Arbor, Michigan — Worth doing!
  11. Spend a weekend in Ann Arbor — Worth doing!
  12. get into UM Ann Arbor — Worth doing!
  13. spend a week living in Ann Arbor — Worth doing!
  14. visit Zingerman's in Ann Arbor — Worth doing!
  15. move to ann arbor — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Empire — Worth visiting!
  2. St. Mary's Student Chapel — Worth visiting!
  3. The Heidelberg
  4. Biltmore Estate — Worth visiting!
  5. Frankenmuth — Worth visiting!
  6. Bronner's Christmas Wonderland
  7. Zehnders — Worth visiting!
  8. Fire Fly Club — Worth visiting!
  9. Kalkaska County Fairgrounds — Worth visiting!
  10. Orange County — Worth visiting!
Consumed:
  1. programmable thermostat — Worth consuming!
  2. small upright vacuum — Worth consuming!

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