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ILoveMyPiccolo




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ILoveMyPiccolo's Life List

  2. 1. be more productive
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  3. 2. Learn to cook
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  4. 3. have better posture
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  5. 4. focus
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  6. 5. read more books more often
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  7. 6. learn to ride a bicycle
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  8. 7. get over my fear of needles
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  9. 8. Donate blood
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  10. 9. hug a sheep
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  11. 10. Have a plant in my room
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  12. 11. learn to swim
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  13. 12. get better at DDR
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  14. 13. Contribute to an open source software project
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  15. 14. spend less time screwing around on the web
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  16. 15. Learn Lisp
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  17. 16. live in NYC
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  18. 17. Volunteer
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  19. 18. learn haskell
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  20. 19. participate in a protest
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  21. 20. see a Democrat elected in 2008
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  22. 21. find a job i love
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  23. 22. learn prolog
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  24. 23. Learn to fly
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  25. 24. Donate to charity
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  26. 25. learn capoeira
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  27. 26. expatriate
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  28. 27. learn how to drive stick-shift
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  29. 28. learn everything
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  30. 29. win
    		182 people
  31. 30. learn chinese
    		2,371 people
  32. 31. Learn Design Patterns
    		34 people
  33. 32. Learn Ruby
    		1,842 people
Recent entries
practice my flute more
Marking this goal as completed 2 years ago

I’ve spent the last five months preparing a solo for a concerto concert I performed in last night. It went fantastically. I practiced harder for this than for anything I’ve practiced for before, and it totally paid off.

Feb 25, 2007, 09:52AM PST | 1 cheer | 0 comments


perform solos without getting nervous (read all 2 entries…)
Marking this as done 2 years ago

Every year, my college has a concerto concert, in which several individual soloists are featured performing virtuosic works (concerto movements or arias) with the orchestra. This year, I was the finale. (I played Cécile Chaminade’s Concertino for Flute.) The concert was last night, and it was amazing. Of course, I was nervous as hell. My mother had driven for seven hours through a raging snowstorm to make it; my girlfriend’s mom had flown across the country to hear her; all my friends were there. By the time I finished, my hands were shaking so hard I could hardly disassemble my flute. But I did great. Not perfectly, of course, but I recovered from mistakes quickly and everyone said I did an amazing job. More relevantly, everyone said I look poised and confident and seemed genuinely surprised to learn that I had been freaking out. So I am marking this goal as done. I think of this as the culmination of my flute career, and it’s very unlikely that I’ll do anything like this again. But it’s deeply satisfying to know I have what it takes to pull something like this off.

Feb 25, 2007, 06:53AM PST | 1 comment


buy a new hard drive (read all 2 entries…)
I just installed a new hard drive! 3 years ago

My brand new sixty-gigabyte hard drive from eBay! (Sixty gigabytes may not sound like much to you, but it’s thrice what I had before.)

Jan 25, 2006, 05:23PM PST | 0 comments


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learn chinese cgr wants to keep a cleaner house sleep better dress up for Halloween be nicer take a photography class overcome my shyness never smoke Try to be more positive Never stop learning stop gossiping see Miyavi in concert start jogging drink more water have my hip bones show Lose 40 lbs smoke marijuana set up FLYlady routines learn Russian get a flat stomach Forever_young wants to try a new recipe once a month exercise daily write more poems make a car be a princess be less lazy get my best possible results in all my school work in 2007
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