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{Turandot}

can't believe this is november already!



I'm doing 32 things
  

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  2. 1. afford to thoroughly be my eccentric disgraceful daring independent enthusiastic self
    4 entries . 88 cheers     		4 people
  3. 2. Go outside & play.
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  4. 3. do the couch to 5k
    3 team members . 15 entries . 31 cheers     		6 people
  5. 4. master the art of pic nic
    11 entries . 81 cheers     		4 people
  6. 5. writhed writer wronged
    7 entries . 17 cheers     		1 person
  7. 6. related-elated-belated
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  8. 7. make 2009 as good as it can be
    6 entries . 77 cheers     		6 people
  9. 8. arrange a photo journal of good moments and achievements in 2009
    5 entries . 49 cheers     		1 person
  10. 9. develop a forgiving, understanding heart: let others be themselves, and me be myself (reality is such a surprise anyway)
    2 entries . 53 cheers     		1 person
  11. 10. Be able to name all 16 of my great great grandparents
    2 entries . 33 cheers     		10 people
  12. 11. try CouchSurfing!
    1 entry . 44 cheers     		2 people
  13. 12.
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  14. 13. be adequate and finish things, try not to be perfect
    4 entries . 59 cheers     		2 people
  15. 14. write my book on MRC by end November 2009
    4 entries . 37 cheers     		1 person
  16. 15. Attend the first international 43T Chianti party
    5 team members . 2 entries . 19 cheers     		5 people
  17. 16. get translated and published abroad
    5 entries . 54 cheers     		1 person
  18. 17. mehr Deutsch sprechen
    16 entries . 66 cheers     		9 people
  19. 18. buy a digital piano
    3 entries . 53 cheers     		9 people
  20. 19. be a visiting scholar at Cambridge (uk)
    1 entry . 53 cheers     		2 people
  21. 20. sing Mozart's Requiem in a choir
    3 entries . 68 cheers     		1 person
  22. 21. Take photos of 43 strangers
    3 team members . 19 entries . 35 cheers     		19 people
  23. 22. save save save in order to buy a attic in town with a view on the canal or on the square
    3 entries . 32 cheers     		1 person
  24. 23. Keep thinking good thoughts for Sadie
    9 cheers     		34 people
  25. 24. learn French, learn SOME French, learn to understand spoken French at least
    2 entries . 20 cheers     		1 person
  26. 25. have four books published by december 2009
    16 cheers     		1 person
  27. 26. Use my Day-Timer to organize my life in 2009
    1 entry . 9 cheers     		2 people
  28. 27. exert synthesis as a way of life
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  29. 28. feed my greed for autonomy and make it steadier
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  30. 29. cook a delicious Mulligatawny (thanks for recipes)
    1 entry . 8 cheers     		1 person
  31. 30. find a flat that suits me and buy it
    1 entry . 7 cheers     		1 person
  32. 31. practice za-ZEN
    6 cheers     		13 people
  33. 32. set up an academic writing buddy commitment
    1 entry     		1 person
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set up an academic writing buddy commitment
What I have in mind 11 hours ago

is something like this kind of commitment:

- weekly 15’-20’ meetings on skype to set writing goals for the coming week

- and to report on the achievements and difficults met with the goals of the previous week

Like this kind of model-commitment:

http://www.wendybelcher.com/pages/documents/Belcher_page_xviii_box.pdf

Nov 07, 01:19PM PST | 8 cheers | 1 comment


be adequate and finish things, try not to be perfect (read all 4 entries…)
a reminder from Wendy Belcher's newsletter (april 2005): the power of stopping 13 hours ago

Stories from the Writing Life

At a dinner party hosted by a fellow writer, I met an engineer who had published eight hundred articles. His publication list, in ten-point type, was thirty-two pages long.

“Eight hundred articles!” I exclaimed. I had never met someone who had published so much, although I knew that engineers tended to publish much more than those in other disciplines. “You’ve got to tell me,” I said, “what is the secret of your success?”

He replied with a smile, “You know, I have one.”

I waited with bated breath and he said, smiling, “Beyond the scope of this article.”

“What?” I said.

“I do a little research, I do a little typing, when I run through what I know and am up against something I don’t, I simply write that such and such is ‘beyond the scope of this article,’ and I’m done. I print it out and send it off.”

This may not seem like genius at first blush, but it is. He has learned that extraordinary skill of knowing when enough is enough. For you must stop and let go of your work if it is ever to be published. This is the secret of his tremendous productivity: stopping.

See www.wendybelcher.com

Nov 07, 11:00AM PST | 2 cheers | 0 comments


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Untitled 5 days ago

mourning the loss of the great poet Alda Merini

Nov 02, 01:10AM PST | 7 cheers | 0 comments


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