Jabsky




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Jabsky's Life List

  2. 1. achieve a black belt in capoeira
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  3. 2. be decent at ballroom dance
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  4. 3. say yes to everything for a month
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  5. 4. become conversationally fluent in Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Japanese, French and Korean
    		1 person
  6. 5. keep a journal every day
    1 entry     		5 people
  7. 6. go to China, Japan, New Zealand and Amsterdam and spend a minimum of one month in a foreign country
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  8. 7. read the New York Times cover to cover every day for a month, and complete the New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle on my own
    		1 person
  9. 8. be a downright decent Chess player
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  10. 9. written and published my novel
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  11. 10. host a dinner party where I cooked all the food
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  12. 11. finish Infinite Jest
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  13. 12. learn to dress myself
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  14. 13. fully understand the general theory of relativity
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  15. 14. have a physically perfect head
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  16. 15. be able to recite poetry, particuarly Keats
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  17. 16. know HTML, CSS and Drupal
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  18. 17. learn how to fence/Jedi lightsaber-fight
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  19. 18. go hang-gliding
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  20. 19. learn to surf
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  21. 20. play guitar
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  22. 21. take voice lessons
    		754 people
  23. 22. fully understand calculus
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  24. 23. talk to one stranger a day, every day, for 30 days
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  25. 24. achieve a black belt in Karate
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  26. 25. achieve a black belt in aikido
    		1 person
  27. 26. run a marathon
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  28. 27. achieve a black belt in Kung Fu
    		1 person
  29. 28. achieve a black belt in jujutsu
    		1 person
  30. 29. completed a screenplay
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  31. 30. do parkour
    		22 people
  32. 31. feel at home in a laboratory
    		1 person
  33. 32. be financially independent and completely understand I Will Teach You To Be Rich
    		1 person
  34. 33. be a practicing Buddhist, who has been on more than one retreat
    		1 person
  35. 34. have an intermediate-level proficiency in Yoga
    		1 person
  36. 35. own a turntable
    		5 people
  37. 36. get a new doctor
    		4 people
  38. 37. read every book by the Bronte Sisters
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  39. 38. go skiing
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  40. 39. read the complete works of Shakespeare
    		244 people
  41. 40. perform a real show at the Upright Citizens Brigade
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  42. 41. work through a majority of the items in my 1001 things to do in New York City list
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  43. 42. understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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  44. 43. see the Northern Lights
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Recent entries
keep a journal every day
05-08-09 7 months ago

I guess a decent test for whether this is being done is to do so for 30 days in a row. I can do that as part of this upcoming apartment experiment – the only question is whether I need this to conform to a more standard journal format. I vote no.

May 08, 03:31PM PDT | 0 comments


Say yes to everything for a month
03-15 Progress Report 9 months ago

Have more or less been doing this for the past month, but think I need to be more pro-active/organized about it. My bag currently contains dozens of opportunities, but i need to schedule a time to go through them and say yes.

The main conflict I’ve been having is conflicts between yeses – but certainly better than having no options self-imposed on a given night.

Mar 15, 04:47PM PDT | 0 comments


achieve a black belt in capoeira (read all 6 entries…)
01-25-09 Progress Report 11 months ago

So, here are my two excuses:

1) It’s been bitterly, bitterly cold out the past few weeks.

2) The inauguration has been hugely disrupting, spending long days working on our inaugural events, traveling to DC, etc.

I’ve moved the Dancing goal to #2 on the list, which means i’ll soon be taking classes, which’ll serve as a supplementary form of exercise, but clearly that’s not sufficient – I need to find ways to do this walking besides the cold. That means:

1) Inside exercise

2) Bundling up more effectively.

For 2 I really need to get a new hat/scarf – I’ll try to get them on MooShoes.com. For 1, I am going to get a fitness pass from http://health-fitness.org/nyfp.html, so I can attend all the gyms for super-cheap – good things written about it in The L magazine.

Jan 25, 2009, 10:57AM PST | 0 comments


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