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RP

is in Reno for the night and arrives back in SF tomorrow.



I'm doing 38 things
  

RP's Life List

  2. 1. deposit my oral history tapes in the Southern Folklife Collection
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  3. 2. Finish editing my CD
    11 entries . 41 cheers     		2 people
  4. 3. clean out my email (all of it)!
    11 entries . 37 cheers     		1 person
  5. 4. document my trip
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  6. 5. play again without pain
    23 entries . 61 cheers     		1 person
  7. 6. convert my dissertation to pdf
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  8. 7. give a talk at Berkeley
    2 entries . 35 cheers     		1 person
  9. 8. become fluent in French
    2 entries . 43 cheers     		1,278 people
  10. 9. publish three articles
    5 entries . 32 cheers     		1 person
  11. 10. get out of debt
    7 entries . 50 cheers     		10,532 people
  12. 11. record the French album
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  13. 12. record my own version of Junk Man
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  14. 13. watch all of Eric Rohmer's feature-length, commercially-released movies (or is that films?)
    6 entries . 11 cheers     		2 people
  15. 14. 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 . 14 cheers     		1 person
  16. 15. get my ballet libretto choreographed and produced
    1 entry . 30 cheers     		1 person
  17. 16. take lessons in continuo realization
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  18. 17. acquire a second single-action harp
    4 entries . 18 cheers     		1 person
  19. 18. buy MY old house
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  20. 19. have tight abs
    3 entries . 13 cheers     		10 people
  21. 20. see the northern lights
    26 cheers     		16,369 people
  22. 21. Call Simon
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  23. 22. own a dog in ten years (or less)
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  24. 23. Get my teaching portfolio totally in order
    2 entries . 15 cheers     		2 people
  25. 24. clean my office
    1 entry . 5 cheers     		145 people
  26. 25. Develop a five year career plan
    2 entries . 9 cheers     		1 person
  27. 26. declutter my life
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  28. 27. go walking three times a week
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  29. 28. what the heck... try getting up early in the morning to write before the work day starts - just in case it turns out I am capable of doing this
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  30. 29. only eat when I'm hungry
    2 entries . 2 cheers     		534 people
  31. 30. write thank you notes
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  32. 31. start a chamber music festival
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  33. 32. "Clean sweep" my life up to 85%
    2 entries . 1 cheer     		2 people
  34. 33. do my physical therapy habitually for a year
    3 entries . 3 cheers     		1 person
  35. 34. l'enfant prodigue reunion tour
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  36. 35. make new friends
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  37. 36. set up a viable, realistic schedule for this summer
    3 entries . 4 cheers     		1 person
  38. 37. have a beautiful garden
    4 cheers     		159 people
  39. 38. create and follow an evening routine
    3 entries . 2 cheers     		3 people

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

How I did it: I started lobbying to play the harp when I was about four.  I started piano when I was seven, which gave me a very good foundation for a lot of things.  My parents found me a harp teacher when I was eleven and a small used harp.  After two years on that they rented a pedal harp for a year and then bought me my first pedal harp when I was fourteen, which I still use to this day.  I got a bachelor's degree from a conserv… Read how I did it…

May 08, 09:18PM PDT | 0 comments | 4 cheers


Recent entries
Finish editing my CD (read all 11 entries…)
ultimatum 2 days ago

If I don’t get my end of this done by the end of the summer my performing partner is threatening to take it out of my hands. He has written on his calendar on Labor Day weekend to call another producer. Time to get to work I guess.

Jul 01, 08:28PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments


play again without pain (read all 23 entries…)
so exciting . . . 2 weeks ago

The question is starting to become: when to mark this done? I’ve been doing so well lately, and just had a trip with a concert, and am shortly to have three more so I’ve been practicing. Not lots and lots, mind you, but practicing without constantly thinking about how much pain I’m in. This Pilates studio has been great. I would be doing a lot better faster if I had the discipline to do my bloody PT every day. It would also mean that I would ultimately probably shell out less for the private Pilates sessions and save myself some money. But this is what seems to be working for me in the absence of my amazing PT back in Durham.

Realistically, I’m still pretty stiff, and feeling “natural” is still a ways away. I’ll see if I can mark this done after doing this for about a year. I’ve budgeted for it.

Jun 14, 07:31AM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments


start my bibliography (read all 3 entries…)
Time to mark this done 4 weeks ago

I’ve been doing an online training course for MS Access and it is enough to get me going. A relational database is pretty much what I need, and I think I have a handle on the design. Now the sloggy part will be all of the data entry!

Jun 03, 09:50PM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments


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write a book... a good book that people will want to read Live in Cumbria be happy Go Kayaking stop biting my fingers Alice wants politicians to support teachers wants to Fall in love Fly a plane exercise daily make/list the soundtrack to my life travel stop obsessing take the praxis Finish My Essay skydive, multiple times i want to be successful Rip my entire CD collection Pay my carecredit bill LLT wants to lose weight flirt more Learn how to throw throwing stars backpack around Europe Live in a gypsy caravan watch the movie "don juan de marco" Lose 10 pounds Play the fiddle go vegan watch smallville
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