- another productive/helpful session with the psych.
- spending the day with Vanessa. I was so worried that after she moved out we wouldn’t really get to spend much time together, but I think we’re both pretty eager to make the time to see each other. Anyway, lunch at a Lebanese bakery, browsing and buying in many bookshops, an afternoon snack in a Greek cake shop – Sydney Road is so colourful and diverse, I really like it. So good that I can even ignore the awful heat and subsequent mild sunburn (which turned me a fleshy pink sort of colour, my dear pallor is ruined!) and the awful blisters on my feet.
- an evening spend curled up in bed with a good book, windows open and air-conditioning on, the fan whirling above. Reminiscing about the methods we used to use to keep cool before AC – frozen hot water bottles anyone?!
Jess's Life List
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1. list three things every day that made me happy
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2. watch 100 movies in 2009
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3. Write a letter to myself that I'll open in 5 years
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4. read all of Jane Austen's novels
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5. pay off my credit card
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6. Write every day
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7. learn to walk in high heels
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8. learn sign language
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9. write a book
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10. catalogue my books
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11. sort through my dvds and sell anything i feel like i can get rid of
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12. start a word journal
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13. leave a letter in a library book for someone to find
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14. learn the phonetic alphabet
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15. make an effort to look and apply for work that relates to my career goals
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16. re-evaluate my 43t goals
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17. Do a 'NoHuWriMo'!
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How I did it: On a whim I bought a table and chair during an Ikea shopping trip and ... kept them in the flat packs for eight months. Sheer laziness! Added it as a goal on my 43things list, hoping that would inspire me to actually put them together ... but it took me a while. Then one sunny Friday afternoon, I lamented to my sister Vanessa that I had nothing to do, and she suggested this goal to me. So we chucked on a cd (ahem Manic Street Preachers, J… Read how I did it…
How I did it: I read a great article about how to write a great resume and implemented some ideas I'd taken from it. I found a few jobs worth applying for which my current work experience was relevant to, looked up some sample resumes of others in the field and rewrote and reshaped my entire resume using these examples. Doing so made me feel so much more confident in the skills I do have and more comfortable in applying for jobs.Now we just have to wai… Read how I did it…
- I have a job interview at the end of the week.
- a phone call from Matt.
- an evening spent with the Gilmore Girls.
- getting up early and getting things done before I had to go to work.
- my first social security payment, I never was eligible to receive them when I was a student the first time around.
- listening to music on the bus.

