I'm doing 18 things
I realize that to get a worthy internship (that helps you with your career goals), you must start thinking about it really early. School always seemed to get in the way. But I managed to review the list sometime during the spring and applied for one even though it was after the deadline. I lucked out that they were still looking for someone. I worked with an art history professor emeritus who ran a digitized collection of slides on art, architecture, and archaeology available to anyone in school or academia. Her collection of Chinese pottery slides needed to be catalogued. It was an area I wasn’t too familiar with but I realize now, looking back, that I love researching and familiarizing myself with a new area. I provided more detail to all the labels. Because it was a summer internship, there wasn’t a lot of time to learn the digitizing part of it.
emsterdamsel's Life List
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1. meet fascinating people.
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2. improve my spanish
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3. drink green or white tea everyday
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4. FInd a library-related job with my new MLIS
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5. lose 50 pounds
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6. make my house ready to sell and then keep it
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7. practice discardia
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8. Listen better, interrupt less
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9. be more confident
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10. have nothing in my house that I do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful
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11. Widen my social circle
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12. Remain positive in my conversations with new acquaintances
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13. clean out my closets
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14. lose another 20 pounds
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15. find out if I can have a meaningful relationship at age 55!
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16. stop procrastinating
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17. do yoga every day
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18. memorise my 10 favourite poems
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How I did it: I completed the degree class by class, following my interests, and trying also to be strategic as far as which classes fulfilled the necessary competencies for the culminating project. I leaned on my classmates for advice and moral support, let less important things go, deferred immediate gratification, didn't take trips or see the latest movies, spent less time cleaning, less time seeing my friends, and did little leisure reading. Read how I did it…
How I did it: I applied to the program at age 51, so it felt like it was taking a big risk. Could I do an academically challenging program when I hadn't been in an academic environment for 30 years? Would I have the perseverance to make it through to the end? If I thought about how old I'd be when I was done, I might not have done it, so I decided it was now or never. I had been laid off from a longterm job and had a year of severance. Somehow, that ga… Read how I did it…
A year long application, interview, and selection process led to an on-call temporary part-time job at my local library system. But the budget situation doesn’t allow for me to get many hours. So I have not really achieved this goal.
I feel much better, but have reached a plateau for 2.5 months. Obviously, I have figured out how to stay at this lower weight, but need to do something different in order to lose 25 to 30 more pounds. Even 5 more pounds!
