RP

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I'm doing 36 things
 

RP's Life List

  1. 1. deposit my oral history tapes in the Southern Folklife Collection
    10 entries . 30 cheers
    1 person
  2. 2. clean out my email (all of it)!
    13 entries . 37 cheers
    1 person
  3. 3. document my trip
    26 entries . 32 cheers
    1 person
  4. 4. play again without pain
    26 entries . 60 cheers
    1 person
  5. 5. convert my dissertation to pdf
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    1 person
  6. 6. give a talk at Berkeley
    2 entries . 32 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. become fluent in French
    3 entries . 43 cheers
    1,350 people
  8. 8. publish three articles
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    1 person
  9. 9. get out of debt
    8 entries . 51 cheers
    11,040 people
  10. 10. record the French album
    2 entries . 14 cheers
    1 person
  11. 11. record my own version of Junk Man
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    1 person
  12. 12. watch all of Eric Rohmer's feature-length, commercially-released movies (or is that films?)
    6 entries . 11 cheers
    1 person
  13. 13. convince a high quality women's chorus to perform Andre Caplet's "Le Miroir de Jesus" on their concert series and hire me to perform it too
    2 entries . 13 cheers
    1 person
  14. 14. get my ballet libretto choreographed and produced
    1 entry . 28 cheers
    1 person
  15. 15. take lessons in continuo realization
    1 entry . 12 cheers
    1 person
  16. 16. acquire a second single-action harp
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    1 person
  17. 17. buy MY old house
    3 entries . 45 cheers
    1 person
  18. 18. have tight abs
    3 entries . 13 cheers
    10 people
  19. 19. see the northern lights
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    16,925 people
  20. 20. Call Simon
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    4 people
  21. 21. own a dog in ten years (or less)
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    1 person
  22. 22. Get my teaching portfolio totally in order
    2 entries . 15 cheers
    2 people
  23. 23. clean my office
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    143 people
  24. 24. Develop a five year career plan
    4 entries . 9 cheers
    1 person
  25. 25. go walking three times a week
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    2 people
  26. 26. start a chamber music festival
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    1 person
  27. 27. "Clean sweep" my life up to 85%
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    2 people
  28. 28. do my physical therapy habitually for a year
    3 entries . 3 cheers
    1 person
  29. 29. l'enfant prodigue reunion tour
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    1 person
  30. 30. make new friends
    2 entries . 6 cheers
    12,791 people
  31. 31. lose 17 pounds
    1 entry
    35 people
  32. 32. create and follow an evening routine
    3 entries . 2 cheers
    3 people
  33. 33. Get through another semester
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  34. 34. Make at least 10k freelancing in 2010
    5 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  35. 35. Practice 20 minutes every day
    5 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  36. 36. Don't be afraid of harpists
    1 entry
    1 person

How I did it
How to have a beautiful garden
It took me
1 year
It made me
Pleased


How to declutter my life
It took me
4 years
It made me
Satisfied


How to learn to play the harp
It took me
14 years
It made me
fulfilled


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Recent entries
become fluent in french (read all 3 entries…)
Been ignoring this goal online 1 week ago

but it isn’t because I haven’t been working on it! I’ve been taking a beginner conversation class at CCSF. It’s pretty low-level, since I’ve had a lot of French before, but it is good for what I need, i.e. accent reduction and pronunciation. It’s also cheap. I don’t put enough time into it, because I am so swamped all the time, but it is more time than I was putting into it before. Also, I plan on continuing this in the spring and summer and in fact all the way through the fifth semester (conversation about culture and literature) which, unfortunately, is the end of the road at City College. I’ll have to do something else after that, but will worry about that later. I’ve been trying to supplement using podcasts, but I’ve only just started with that.



Practice 20 minutes every day (read all 5 entries…)
another half hour today 1 week ago

Half an hour doesn’t seem to be too much, so I spent another half an hour today on the Bax Trio. I might try two 30 minute sessions, but trying to find two separate times during the day is difficult.



Practice 20 minutes every day (read all 5 entries…)
doing better 1 week ago

I took the timer downstairs with me tonight and got in a good productive 30 minutes on the Bax Trio. I wish that a) I were in better physical shape to practice longer and that b) I didn’t have so many other things to do. But I’m not and I do, so that is that and I won’t whine. I’ll just try to keep at it every day, even the most stressful days.



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