Burninglight

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Burninglight's Life List

1. write a book
26,047 people
2. program an MMO
2 people
3. learn to play guitar
4,284 people
4. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
5,508 people
5. stop procrastinating
26,950 people
6. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
7,517 people
7. Do NaNoWriMo
604 people
8. leave notes in library books
540 people
9. Fall in love
24,465 people
10. talk to strangers, all the time
168 people
11. learn Latin
1,885 people
12. open my own restaurant
101 people
13. take a dance class
804 people
14. write an operating system
44 people
15. go to burning man
1,435 people
16. start my own business and make good money at it
19 people
17. write more short stories
64 people
18. excercise daily
92 people
19. Stop eating refined sugar
1 cheer 17 people
20. cook everything from scratch
4 people
21. eat less meat
257 people
22. read all the books I own
1,132 people
23. become more organized
838 people
24. write daily
237 people
25. become fluent in German
1 entry 345 people
26. Make the most of my 20's
608 people
27. be more organized
3,231 people
28. finish my degree
2,539 people
29. floss daily
385 people
30. be in an anime
22 people

Recent entries

become fluent in German

I'm going to practice more... 16 months ago

I plan to expand my vocabulary by reading more german books… without facing page translation, etc. I’ll start by reading my copy of Die Unendliche Geschichte. Michael Ende schreibt sehr guete Bucher, ja?

Jul 19, 2008, 02:17AM PDT | 0 comments

stop drinking caffeine

Hard, but worthwhile. 16 months ago

I was seriously addicted to caffeine—drinking sometimes as much as two 2-liter bottles of diet coke a day.

About five weeks ago I decided to quit, being sick of all the ups-and-downs in energy levels and the insomnia. I went cold-turkey, muddling my way through 4 days of headaches before finally coming out the other side—I think this worked better than the other times I’ve tried to quite (by slowly reducing intake) because I now have a strong negative deterrent.

The end result? I’ve found that it’s easier to sleep at night and (paradoxically) easier to remain “awake” during the day. Plus, I probably save $5 a day doing this, adding up to almost $2000 a year. Definitely worthwhile.

Jul 19, 2008, 02:01AM PDT | 0 comments