Monsterpants




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  1. 1. let my cuticles finish healing without any fussing
    3 entries
    1 person
  2. 2. enter sketches into midi for compilation and collaboration with Berend
    2 entries
    1 person
  3. 3. decide whether i need to: ignore, maneuver, or fix the "boy's club" problem in my chosen career
    1 entry
    1 person
  4. 4. make more music with berend
    3 entries
    1 person
  5. 5. become fluent in dutch
    3 entries . 8 cheers
    12 people
  6. 6. make a living off my music
    1 entry . 16 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. orchestrate orchestrate orchestrate (to get really great at it)
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    1 person
  8. 8. hear more of my orchestrations performed by live instruments
    6 cheers
    1 person
  9. 9. learn how to analyze handwriting
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    1 person
  10. 10. help perpetuate someone else's legacy
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    1 person
  11. 11. leave a legacy of my own
    8 cheers
    1 person
  12. 12. chat with Donald Fagen
    5 entries . 3 cheers
    2 people
  13. 13. Live in Amsterdam
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    88 people
  14. 14. Take part in fulfilling someone else's lifelong dream.
    2 entries . 6 cheers
    4 people
  15. 15. be a skilled arranger
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    1 person
  16. 16. make a coffee table book of all the doodles and drawings i've saved since middle school
    1 person
  17. 17. be able to sing the Steely Dan album "Gaucho" seamlessly, from start to finish- a capella.
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  18. 18. be part of a correspondence that will be published in the future because of its significance on a subject.
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    1 person
  19. 19. go hang gliding
    7 cheers
    398 people
  20. 20. elect a third party president
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    1 person
  21. 21. take a music tour of Brazil
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    2 people
  22. 22. record my dad telling his stories of his life and then write them out.
    9 cheers
    1 person
  23. 23. make comprehensive, and then progressively complete my list of Steely Dan-related movies and books to watch/read
    1 entry
    1 person
  24. 24. compose for Cirque du Soleil
    2 entries . 5 cheers
    2 people
  25. 25. find a hobby that doesn't involve hurting my wrists
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1 person
  26. 26. stop getting migraines
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    6 people
  27. 27. map
    2 entries
    6 people
  28. 28. run through a sprinkler
    2 entries . 4 cheers
    2 people
  29. 29. take a solo trip to nyc
    1 person
  30. 30. see the Grand Crayon (harr harr)
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1 person
  31. 31. figure out why i have so few cheers for someone who loves 43things so much. am i just supposed to be cheering other people all day long, or something?
    1 entry
    1 person
  32. 32. sell my latest creation on etsy
    1 person
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chat with Donald Fagen (read all 5 entries…)
Untitled 3 months ago

had that freakin’ nightmare again. the one where for some reason i have an opportunity to meet donald fagen, and the for whatever other obnoxious reason, right before i’m able to, something prevents it from happening.

it’s either that or i do meet him and he despises me and shuns me. but last night it was simply not being able to get all my stuff together to get out the door for a meeting he and i had set up.

YARrrgH. woke me up at 6:30, and had a very hard time falling back asleep.



know what I need to do, and do what I need to do in MA. Know when it's time to move to Amsterdam.
the time is nigh 3 months ago

i think the best sign that it’s time for me to move- more than how in love i am with my dutch boy, more than how much i enjoy amsterdam, more than the fact that i can’t wait to live there with him- i think the best sign that it’s time for me to move is that i have done enough and seen enough, met enough people, and enjoyed enough local food, to know that i’m really, truly going to miss living in massachusetts.

if i hadn’t given myself enough time to realize that, i would have been moving too soon.

this is a big breakthrough for me.



finish reading the 9 books i've started this year before i pick up another one.
half way done. 5 months ago

i’ve read:
sex, lies, and handwriting
handwriting analysis- putting it to work for you
script and scribble
the anatomy of dirty words
dreamtoons (do comic books count?)

books to finish:
art & fear
the tin drum
pluk van de petteflet (<-in dutch, so it’s taking a while)
the loved one

i detect a pattern: i have an easier time finishing non-fiction books/ anything that’s not a novel.



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