I'm doing 38 things
getting started
1 week ago
I’ve signed up for a swimming holiday next summer to help train for a triathalon. This is a good start…especially as I’ve paid the deposit! Now just have to find the rest of the money…
LilySue's Life List
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1. Finish the conclusion chapter!!
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2. Finish my PhD
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3. Find a full-time job that makes me happy!
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4. Develop better email habits
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5. stop procrastinating
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6. Never pay another library fine!
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7. Bring in my lunch/snacks instead of buying them
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8. reduce and eventually eliminate my debt
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9. Talk to my siblings more
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10. reconnect with old friends
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11. be financially independent
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12. Do a long distance, open water swim
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13. Save whales
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14. swim a lot in 2008
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15. visit asia
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16. Speak German
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17. Relax
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18. Hike more often
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19. see animals in the wild
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20. Dream BIG
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21. Have a fulfilling career
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22. Publish articles
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23. make a documentary
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24. do more yoga
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25. swim more
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26. Climb der Watzmann
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27. Stop being naïve about nasty work politics
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28. work on my secret project
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29. Draw up a roadmap for where I want my life to go so I don't lose focus and get lost along the way.
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30. Love Patrick Swayze more than ever!
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31. listen to my heart instead of my fears
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32. Start a Buddy Check 12 team here on 43things, in support of Breast Cancer Awareness. Do your self-exam the 12th of every month.
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33. Watch all the Curb Your Enthusiam Episodes
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34. Give more cheers then I get
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35. Join an Sea Swim CLub/Find a swimming buddy
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36. pay off my student loans
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37. Make long term goals
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38. Read Pablo Neruda
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Recent entries
Have signed up for next summer...
1 week ago
This just wasn’t the summer for it (PhD wise or weather wise!!!). But I have already signed up for a swimming holiday next May. I can’t wait!!
Sonnet 69
1 week ago
Over the weekend i DID A READING AT MY COUSIN’S (oops) wedding – Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet 69. What a beautiful poem! (After I finish the PhD) I need to read more about him and of course read more of his poems.
Pablo Neruda
Sonnet LXIX
Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence,
without you moving, slicing the noon
like a blue flower, without you walking
later through the fog and the cobbles,
without the light you carry in your hand,
golden, which maybe others will not see,
which maybe no one knew was growing
like the red beginnings of a rose.
In short, without your presence: without your coming
suddenly, incitingly, to know my life,
gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind:
since then I am because you are,
since then you are, I am, we are,
and through love I will be, you will be, we’ll be.
