Wildcranberries

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Wildcranberries's Life List

  1. 1. Shine and help others shine
    8 entries . 73 cheers
    3 people
  2. 2. Be incandescently happy
    6 entries . 39 cheers
    2 people
  3. 3. Excel in the academia (with the abundance paradigm, kindness, co-creativity and joy)
    13 entries . 33 cheers
    1 person
  4. 4. Get through this, 'this' being divorce, with as much grace, kindness and respect as possible.
    18 entries . 21 cheers
    1 person
  5. 5. Enjoy my 10 months of Chicago thoroughly
    24 entries . 30 cheers
    1 person
  6. 6. Finish the book proposal
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    1 person
  7. 7. Understand things, or, "The unexamined life is not worth living"
    18 entries . 25 cheers
    1 person
  8. 8. Survive in the academia (whilst making it a more glamorous place)
    12 entries . 7 cheers
    1 person
  9. 9. Observe, understand and participate in the life of my current home country
    16 entries . 7 cheers
    1 person
  10. 10. Things to do Today
    34 entries . 11 cheers
    3 people
  11. 11. Use other people's words to express how I feel
    17 entries . 15 cheers
    1 person
  12. 12. "Art washes away the dust of everyday life" goal
    6 entries . 34 cheers
    1 person
  13. 13. Keep track of my monthly, yearly and life goals
    3 entries . 13 cheers
    1 person
  14. 14. Be grateful
    11 entries . 16 cheers
    225 people
  15. 15. See a hummingbird live
    1 entry . 19 cheers
    1 person
  16. 16. remember that "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out
    2 entries . 14 cheers
    13 people
  17. 17. write and perform silly songs, make loads of money and fly around in a diamond-encrusted spaceship called the SoaP Dragon with my fellow Snakes on a Plane bandmates
    6 team members . 1 entry . 10 cheers
    9 people
  18. 18.
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    0 people
  19. 19. Did you know Venus wrote her first book?! We've got to share it!
    4 cheers
    2 people
  20. 20. love men but eliminate sexism
    1 entry . 14 cheers
    2 people
  21. 21. Get 43 paper rejections
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1 person
  22. 22. Celebrate a Hau'oli la Hanau with Mahinui on March 3rd!
    1 cheer
    3 people
  23. 23. Take more road trips alone
    7 entries . 11 cheers
    1 person
Recent entries
Get 43 paper rejections
Submission 1 8 months ago

Inspired by Ruth, Asterisk and Dom7, I have decided to look at the process of getting published from a perspective that doesn’t freeze me with inability to act. The goal will be about both conference papers and, more crucially, scholarly articles in journals.

Yesterday, submission 1 for this goal got sent – a proposed paper for a conference in Florida next autumn. In that process, I noticed I have an article-length, pretty interesting paper manuscript that has been waiting for 11 months without me doing anything to it despite encouragement to publish. There really has been something wrong with me re: publishing that needs to be rethought. I can’t expect all my life to write and give only invited papers where the fear of rejection is taken away. So, starting now, I will focus zealously and work really hard on getting 43 paper rejections.



Be incandescently happy (read all 6 entries…)
I feel happier 8 months ago

and more hopeful every day. Today, it smelled like the first day of spring here. I made a new friend, a smart interesting Swiss art historian, and also new daily life-organizing plan that should help me work better. An anonymous referee for a book manuscript called my article in it “original” and “of exceptional quality.” And, some other stuff that’s the most hope-inspiring of all.

Maybe it was also being ickily ill last weekend, and having to cancel all the fun stuff that was planned. There’s nothing like a forced sofa-rest for making one appreciate life. I’m almost afraid to say it… but, I’m happy.



Get a U.S. Social Security Number (read all 6 entries…)
Hurrah! 8 months ago

Five moths after the application, I got my card in the mail! And it says fun things like “legal alien” on the backside of it. Hee.

Now I’ll have to see if I can still get the honorarium for the talk I gave last autumn they couldn’t pay me because I had no SSN. I so know what I’d do with 200 dollars. As for applying for an U.S. credit card or getting a new phone, I don’t need either.



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