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
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    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
    2 entries . 43 cheers
    1,344 people
  8. 8. publish three articles
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    1 person
  9. 9. get out of debt
    8 entries . 51 cheers
    10,985 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?)
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    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
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    1 person
  18. 18. have tight abs
    3 entries . 13 cheers
    10 people
  19. 19. see the northern lights
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    16,847 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
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    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. Don't be afraid of harpists
    1 entry
    1 person
  31. 31. Make at least 10k freelancing in 2010
    5 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  32. 32. Get through another semester
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  33. 33. create and follow an evening routine
    3 entries . 2 cheers
    3 people
  34. 34. lose 17 pounds
    1 entry
    35 people
  35. 35. make new friends
    2 entries . 6 cheers
    12,712 people
  36. 36. Practice 20 minutes every day
    4 entries . 1 cheer
    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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Practice 20 minutes every day (read all 4 entries…)
doing better 3 hours 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.



Make at least 10k freelancing in 2010 (read all 5 entries…)
Good possibilities 1 day ago

I recently got called for a Nutcracker run down in San Jose. After consulting with another area harpist I asked for and got my biggest per service fee ever. I’m really making a healthy amount of money for this gig. It’s funny because some of the jobs I’ve had here have been kind of low pay compared to what I got in NC, but others have been loads higher. The variation is quite large. I suppose it has something to do with the size of the market and the relative strength of the union. At any rate, this gives me some hope for my employability in 2010, as well as my potential service fee. Honestly, I’d be happy even to make 5000.00 freelancing in 2010, but lets see what happens.



Get through another semester (read all 2 entries…)
I'm not at all sure about this job 1 day ago

Yes, it is easier than it was when I started, but I still feel as though I am working all of the time, not getting enough sleep, constantly hounded and under stress and can’t get anything else done, like laundry or cooking basic meals. Marriage has helped a bit, but not enough to get me to stop thinking about a career change. Besides, even if K were able to take up all household slack (which he can’t, because he has a job too) I want to be able to take care of my own house. I also want to be able to make more money. Not necessarily lots more money, but I foresee this job as being pretty flat in the near and long term. I’m thinking of the following general areas: digital information (especially sound) as a specialization of information science, higher education admin or something else. I miss being my own boss, too, but at least now I feel a lot more secure—I’m paying off debt, I have healthcare and I have a retirement account. The problem is, I used to feel a lot of anxiety about getting by financially; now I feel anxiety about my ability to keep going. Naturally I sometimes wonder which is better/worse?
The other problem with a career shift is I think that it will be harder and harder now that I am in my mid forties and furthermore, it will require additional education or something like it. I have a lot of education and skills already, but I don’t know how to translate them into anything else.



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