 I'm doing 13 things |
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Have an article accepted for publication in an academic journal.
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1 person |
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explore the city where I live.
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23 people |
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write in my blog every day
1 entry . 2 cheers |
16 people |
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be grateful every day
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11 people |
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Read one book each week
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11 people |
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Have at least six articles accepted for publication this year.
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1 person |
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Pay off my credit cards.
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1,083 people |
| 8. |
Finish my wiki
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1 person |
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Learn more about categorical data analysis
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1 person |
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Master survival analysis
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1 person |
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Clean my house
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676 people |
| 12. |
Finish that book proposal by March!
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1 person |
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Finish website on SAS Enterprise Guide by end of March
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How I did it: Sat down and read it. I was in junior high school and no doubt I was supposed to be reading something else, like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm or Anne of Green Gables, neither of which I could stand. My daughter, Jenn, when she was about 11, did like Anne. No one ever liked Rebecca.I remember my mother disapproved of my reading choices. She thought Ayn Rand was "selfish". Read how I did it…
How I did it: I saw the northern lights many times, as (too) much of my career and education has taken me to the Great Plains states, near the Canadian border. Each time, I marveled at how beautiful it was and was surprised that some people who live on those regions just take a ho-hum attitude, like I do about earthquakes.I never went looking for the northern lights, I would just see them on a business trip, on my way home from work, or walking back to… Read how I did it…
It is May and I only have ten pages done. Well 20 if you double-spaced them, but still, that isn’t much progress. My new plan, since Ronda is trying to get back on track for the next Olympics and she is trying to get back to working out every day, I can get back to writing every day. When I was doing that conscientiously I got two articles finished in two months. Okay, well, today is one day in a row!
The first article is still under review – the journal guidelines say to expect 4 months. Wrote another article and put it in the mail. Two down. I have started on data analysis and writing for a third. Started data analysis for a fourth.
In this economy, people are always saying you are lucky if you have a job. Not only do I have a job, but I have a really interesting job. At this very minute there about six different things, all of which I want to do.
Write pages on statistics with SAS Enterprise Guide for my USC website I am creating
Update the presentation for my Introduction to SAS class I am teaching on Thursday
Write my talk on data preparation and data management – how to not make yourself crazy
Finish a book on SPSS programming
Run a logistic regression in Stata
Finish reading two books on Enterprise Guide
Read a book on JMP sitting on my desk
About eight other things I just thought of right now.
(What is RSS?)
serenity wants to Make myself a Harry Potter school uniform
learn to line dance
stop drinking
hollymerryman wants to get in shape
Maintain a positive attitude
get dreadlocks
change my major
become a gangster
Learn to knit
find my birth parents
Read all the books I own, but have not yet read.
Lose the bad attitude about my job
go to London
Start running
MODLE
Become a wizard
make friends all over the world
learn to sail
