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?
Burninglight's Life List
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1. write a book
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2. program an MMO
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3. learn to play guitar
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4. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
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5. stop procrastinating
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6. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
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7. Do NaNoWriMo
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8. leave notes in library books
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9. Fall in love
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10. talk to strangers, all the time
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11. learn Latin
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12. open my own restaurant
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13. take a dance class
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14. write an operating system
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15. go to burning man
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16. start my own business and make good money at it
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17. write more short stories
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18. excercise daily
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19. Stop eating refined sugar
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20. cook everything from scratch
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21. eat less meat
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22. read all the books I own
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23. become more organized
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24. write daily
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25. become fluent in German
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26. Make the most of my 20's
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27. be more organized
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28. finish my degree
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29. floss daily
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30. be in an anime
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Recent entries
I'm going to practice more...
16 months ago
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.
