I'm doing 37 things
Finally
3 years ago
I’m here now. A new start.
and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.'s Life List
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1. set small, specific and manageable targets
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2. be open and honest and stop feeling shame about my situation surrounding mental health
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3. be myself, and trust friendships to form naturally
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4. develop better posture
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5. get up early in the morning
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6. practise pronoia
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7. get up when my alarm clock goes off
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8. spend no more than two hours per day on the internet
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9. clear the living room, ready for decorating
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10. build a repertoire of five songs I love that I can confidently perform on guitar
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11. do the artist date once a week
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12. set an afternoon or evening aside for reading, at least once a week
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13. buy a piano
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14. release on the internet one song I've written and performed
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15. get into photography
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16. take some photographs of myself, and keep them
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17. learn to cook from three new recipes
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18. get back into films
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19. see a play at the theatre
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20. explore London
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21. spread knowledge of the fact that "race" as a concept has no biological basis
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22. look into getting broadband
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23. go through Final Fantasy VII again
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24. transcribe a piece of music from the Final Fantasy VII soundtrack
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25. go to an open mic
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26. start an mp3 blog
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27. figure out how to play Erin McKeown's Blackbirds, including the KCRW solo
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28. learn more about plants
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29. get to level 2 on everything2
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30. get back into drawing
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31. think of a better internet handle
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32. compile a 100-things-about-me list
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33. make a space here to write anything I want
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34. Complete Week 10 of the Artist's Way
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35. organise the bookmarks in my web browsers, and share the ones that may be of interest to others
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36. Wish everyone a very merry unbirthday at AbbeyNormal's Week-long "Virtual" Mad Tea Party!
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37. ask my 43T subscribers to cheer shoemaker this month and offer him hugs
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Recent entries
organise the bookmarks in my web browsers, and share the ones that may be of interest to others (read all 4 entries…)
I don't much like heckling generally,
3 years ago
especially in stand-up comedy, but…
‘Joel Douglas, the less famous son of the actor Kirk, was performing at the Comedy Store and getting increasingly frustrated by the audience reaction. He started shouting: “You can’t do this to me, I’m Kirk Douglas’s son!” At which point some wag stood up and said: “No, I’m Kirk Douglas’s son.” Then someone else stood up, and so on.’
‘Bono on stage in Glasgow: “Every time … I clap my hands … a child in Africa … starves to death …” Glaswegian voice: “Stop fuckin’ doing it, then!”’
‘We were sat in the cinema waiting for Revenge of the Sith to start. The standard warning boomed out of the speakers: “Piracy is a crime.” A lone pirate voice cried out: “Aaarrrrrrgh!” The whole cinema erupted.’
