The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).

Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past - frequently simple goals such as new year's resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organizing and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.

Start Date: Sunday, March 16, 2008
Goal Date: Sunday, December 12, 2010

-Items in italics are currently in progress.
-Items that are stricken out are completed.
-Idea stolen from nitesh_update.
-Some items are more important than others.
-Will not be completed in order.

( 101 in 1001 )

This semester is made of snow and fail and I want to go home now. It's cold, and I am frustrated, stir-crazy and bored. :( I can't think to write, and seeing as I feel like I need to write to think....yeah. Vicious cycle much? Help!

I will never, apparently, find a show I like a) that lasts longer than 30episodes b)while it's being aired the first time. Some day, I will make a Venn diagram of shows I like that last vs. shows I like that didn't last. It will be an ugly picture.

...also I don't want to go to school tomorrow. :(

Ok, LOST. If you manage to deliver episodes like that all season, you will have a swansong deserving of, well, you. Don't blow it. I have not been so impressed since...since...well. Since season five's finale.

Rambling will go here after I get home from Diagnostic Reading, but for now? A couple of my most important pet theories have been proven.

( cut for people who don't care or who haven't seen yet. )

However, I do not think ABC's promo folks understand that MOST of us are watching for the mystery, not the shipping wars. They still make the lamest promos ever.

Points for Sarah: 0
Points for Thing One and Thing Two (to date): 2
Point one: The Crow, The Fox and the Cookie (WHY HAVE I NOT HEARD THIS SONG BEFORE. WHY. IT IS AWESOME. And the video is adorable!)
Point Two: Make A Little Birdhouse In Your Soul (Now with bonus Kristen Chenoweth and Ellen Greene for added adorableness!)

soon, sometime, I'll have a non-youtube post. Honest. right now I have diagnostic reading to...well, read.

Context: discussing WIXQ Movie Night, wherein couches are stolen from the studio and moved into the room with the projector.

"Are pants still optional for this?"

(--Interjection: "To dj trainees, a note: pants are optional at WIXQ!")

"Yes, yes, there is that. But are pants optional for this?"

"That depends on how much we like the couches!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Pants are o-"

"PANTS ARE REQUIRED."

So. Uh. Guess what I do did this upcoming Monday today instead. C'mon. Guess. Guessguessguess.

"right, then. I think the Start Of A New Semester curse has set in! I just spent the last few hours reading an unending Wiki-hall-of-mirrors about horror movies (...dear brain: why? you do not like horror movies, and yet thanks to you I can explain the life cycle of a xenomorph. oh yes this is a helpful life skill what the heck.)

Also, my spring break plan. Let me show you it."

The above is what I planned to post last night before Scheduled Maintenance ate my post and I got frustrated.

Today, however, I am not allowed (hear that, brain? Not Allowed!) to be distracted. There are too many things I won't have time to do next week, so I need to do them today and tomorrow afternoon. Especially since bedtime on Sundays is now between 9:00 and 10:00. I feel like a ten year old.

Weekend To-Do List
Read Classroom Assessment assignment
Read Diagnostic Reading assignment
Set up Secondary Subject notebook (we get to do a show-and-tell day. I am going to build my own radio. Reading in the Content Area: this semester's favorite class.)
Try to figure out a way that Diagnostic Reading will not kill me. (The teacher....just...augh. Augh. AUGH. Diagnostic Reading: this semester's nemesis.)
Write The Usual Suspects
Finish Cave In sketch.
Finish reading Some Like It Hot-Buttered.
Finish figuring out Conelrad's format schedule.

ETA: From Neil freaking Gaiman's blog: "I will tell you: I'm going to be in an upcoming episode of ARTHUR. Today they sent me the script, and it's a delight: with luck it'll have kids all over the world making their own little graphic novels, and will usher in the dawn of a new golden age of comics and creativity. And without luck it'll still be a really good PBS kids' cartoon but with me in it. (No, I do not know what kind of animal I am going to be.)"

I will tell you no lies: I never watched Arthur, but I loved the books (they contain some of the few insanely-popular-with-the-little-ones characters I actually don't hate. Unlike Dora the Explorer who I hate with the fury of a thousand fiery suns) and I will be trying to watch this. :D

Re: passive-agressive-WIXQ-email. Got here, checked my schedule, confirmed I am, in fact, still 5:00-7:00 on Mondays, which means I am still in the clear as far as missing shows goes (campus not being open this past Monday and all).

Have a buddy to play racquetball with now! So part of my Monday-Wednesday superbreak of doom is gone. Planning to use the rest to goof off with iMovie (totally not working at the moment; giving up for now!), write, and catch up with homework. Trying to decide whether or not signing up for The Snapper is a productive use of my time, seeing as how I'm in five classes, volunteering at the public library twice a week, working with WIXQ and still available at the daycare on Fridays...adding another plate to this act might make all the others fall, so, yeah. Thinking on that still.

Get to do something called "secondary subject learning" in Reading in the Content Area. As near as I can figure, it translates as "Teach yourself about this subject you're really interested in but have never bothered to research the way you would teach a kid, and keep track of it in a notebook." I think I shall do something (surprise surprise) with radio or radar. That's always interested me. I mean, I know how to use a radio to listen, and to broadcast, but I really don't know how they work, megahurtz and wavelengths and whatnot.

...dear clicker.com: I love the fact that you let me watch Hogan's Heroes and The A-Team. However, WHY, pray-tell, do you have McHale's Navy (uggh) and not Black Sheep Squadron? If you're going to have access to various inaccurate but fun military misfits shows, that's one of the the big ones to have! *grumble grumble grumble*

And now I have run out of things to blab about. D:

Doc W: Late
Doc R: Early and bizarre
WIXQ: Sending passive aggressive emails regarding program director's lack of wizard-powers.

Ah, yes, MU is indeed back in session. Now, time to collapse so I can be on campus in time to confirm my show time before my (uggh) 8:00 am class.

My offering for help_haiti. There are so many brilliant artists there already that I don't think mine'll get all that much attention, but it's worth a shot.

I'm bidding on a couple things as well, with my donations going towards World Vision or International Medical Corps (if they'd add them to the approved list already, dangit!), or (probably) Doctors Without Borders (if WV/IMC don't make the approved list.)

Things I Should Be Doing: Cleaning my desk, organizing my day planner, filling out "exceptions to graduation" forms, scholarship applications and my FAFSA. Possibly watching The Watchmen so Emmitt will stop pestering about it when he comes over tonight.

Things I Am Doing Instead: outlining an epic, war-spanning Hogan's Heroes fic series (guys seriously it's been eating my brain since early December and now has turned into a full-out menace, complete with a six-hour playlist. And a cattle auctioneer. And a mysterious member of the 442 Infantry division showing up in camp. Dear self: Stalag 13 is a LUFTSTALAG there would not be an INFANTRYMAN there, this is going to take some creativity....), planning for Conelrad (does two concept albums and two themed 'lists a month seem like enough of a format to y'all?), redoing my LJ layout (Dire Straits this time!) and playing Pokemon emulators. ETA: And a ten-song-drabble-meme from either Russell or Smallcreep's POV. I have to decide which once I beat this gym leader.

Time management skillz. I haz them.

Though, in my defense, I spent the morning figuring out what classes I need to waive (SpEd 101 or 312, since I transferred in SpEd101; and Music 103&104 since they're technically music history classes and...I transferred that in too?), which I need to register for, major-wise (Teaching Literacy, Teaching of Social Studies, Teaching of Mathematics and Teaching of Science, plus a pre-student-teaching field experience), and how many GenEd things I have between me and graduation. Currently: an Advanced Writing class (candidates: Advanced Composition, Technical Writing, Business Writing and Fundamentals of Journalism. Probably going to try for Advanced Comp or Journalism, Tech Writing sounds dull as dirt and I have heard horrific things about the business writing professors). Possibly a Perspectives course (though it seems to have vanished from my degree audit? So I don't know.)

Then it's student teaching and I am outta there! Probably graduating in a year and three months. Exciting!

And I dropped my moderating position on Althanas.

So I guess I have been being productive?

Somewhat.

Dealing, sadly, with my last few days of break. Gölden, after the Urgent Reply Fast NOW email, has yet to get back to us about time slots, so...as far as I know I've still got Ugly O'clock in the morning on Mondays? But not this Monday, because campus proper (and thus the SMC) doesn't open until Tuesday.

My car's been vibrating funny lately, so we took it in to be looked at. The mechanics rotated/rebalanced my wheels, and then Mom and I took it on 283 at 65-70. No more vibration! That means 283 is a go, and I will only have to get up at 4:00 for Conelrad, not 3:00. Small steps.

All of my books are here. half.com is the best thing ever, cut my bill nearly in half which is a good thing. Unfortunately it is also responsible for the addition of...oh...*counts* about ten new books to the already overworked bookshelf. I swear, one of these days it's going to get a mind of its own and crush me.

I've been working on getting my patches onto my camo jacket. I now have two Vermont patches, a Carlsbad Canyon patch, a Horde patch and a Civil Defense patch (vintage, not recreation!) sewn on, and fingers that are going "LOOK SWEETHEART THIMBLES EXIST FOR A REASON." I still have to add a silly "Hi!" patch, a Hunter patch and a Bugs Bunny, and then I'm done until my next round comes. Current candidates for next round: 14th Armored Division, NASA, Free French Forces and Firefly. I need to figure out a backpatch too - one that does not claim that I am police/emt/anything that can get me arrested, OR mean that I am a fan of some death-metal band with a name like Nunslaughter (...seriously? What.) Wolves, eagles and tigers are also 100% completely out, unless I can find one that looks like Murdock's jacket* (also ** ) This would be totally awesome though.

[imagine a long pause here as I am interrupted mid-writing to pick CJ up from the station, waiting for him to finish approximately two tons of paperwork, and have to listen to him talking about the unconscious lady who tried, nevertheless, to throw up on him.]

On that topic, I worked the last two weeks. It was fun seeing the kids again, though one of them got sick and...yes, threw up. I was not exactly thrilled, and spent the rest of the afternoon in a hypochondriac state of "AHHH DO NOT WANT SICK." On a positive note, however, one of the kids now thinks I am Super Teacher because I let him import my Mewtwo, Moltres, Zapdos and Articuno into his Pokemon Platinum - that same act means that one of the girl students thinks I am the stupidest teachers on the face of the planet. Ah, well. You win some you lose some.

I'm kinda on the fence about school starting back up. I don't want to lose my free time, but...at the same time I have done almost nothing productive WITH my free time. I have a couple days every week where I am trapped on campus with a....let's see. 9:15 to 2:30...

...wait, I have a five hour and fifteen minute break between classes? Twice a week? SARAH YOUR SCHEDULING SKILLS ARE MADE OF FAIL AND WIN AT THE SAME TIME. I do not know whether that ten hours a week (WUT) will be used entirely on homework, or whether I'll try to get a job on campus, or what, but I...yeah. That's a long time to hang around between classes. I think it's to make up for Tuesdays and Thursdays, which...don't have more than 45minutes between any; most are in the 15minute range. Oh the joys of five classes a semester for the duration...

One of the things I have been doing during the break is reading. Finally finished When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit after years, and it was quite good - a tad bit slow, but very readable. Also found this absolutely gorgeous, wordless graphic novel by Shaun Tan called The Arrival. It is the perfect example of "A picture tells a thousand words." I made the mistake of checking out five Star Wars novels at the same time and then being completely unmotivated to touch any of them, and since then it's been WWII Alternate History. Interesting topic. I think if a writing fairy showed up and said "Hey! I will snap my fingers and give you the ability to write ANY genre absolutely perfectly!" I would chose Alternate History. Just because.

And...hmm. My replacement shoes should be here tomorrow. The stars are unbelievably beautiful tonight. And that's about it. golly my life is exciting.






*While trying unsuccessfully to find an example of this, I found B.A./Murdock art. do not want. Also the cover of "A Curse Dark As Gold," which I read just a month ago. It IS very good, but has no characters named Murdock, and nothing about any teams, A or otherwise, and it never mentions a jacket. And the author's name is Elizabeth C. Bunce. I don't get it.
**The new A-Team movie actually looks like it might be decent. They're (supposedly) making it a straight-up adventure, we'll have to see, but oh my giddy AUNT Hannibal looks PERFECT but the jury is still out on the others. Murdoooock your hat is the wrong color and you better still have Billy....now, if only they'd get around to decent Hogan's Heroes and MacGyver movies, twelve-year-old me will be giddy.

Current reading: World War: In The Balance, For You, The War Is Over, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and Battle Dragon.

It's hilarious how much variety you can get on the topic of WWII. :D

Slasher horror, always. Most regular horror (barring the really old cheesy stuff ala The Blob). Most romance. I cannot and will not read anything by Stephen King. I do not like his topics, his concepts or (blasphemy) his writing style. I can't get into period historical romance. I occasionally feel like an alien for not liking 99% of Jane Austen/Emily Bronte...

There are exceptions, of course. Neil Gaiman's stuff counts as horror sometimes, and so does Ray Bradbury, but overall...not many exceptions. Sorry!

In other news, Gölden emailed all us lowly djs. Looks like I keep the Ugly O'Clock timeslot next semester. Oh, well. Such is life!

Been up since five thirty. brain has caught the dumb, is no longer braining. Have to be up for work at 5:30 again, please don't snow until I'm home oh please oh please oh please...

Also, jayiin talked me into trying this:



So...yeah. We'll see how this goes. And, with that in mind, have some Hogan's Heroes fic.

January
First line of first LJ post: BUNNY.
Commentary: I applied to Kutztown and Millersville, and joined Twitter. I did a lot of working, and...a lot of planning for the Ill Fated Marillion Caper of Ought Nine, actually. I started my first of two month-long fights with various strep-related tomfoolery.
Writing: Torch Song, and not much else, other than some co-authored stuff with kyrahlynn.
Art: That's The Only Time and What Sign? most notably. Also Juls' contest prize and the Harecats.
Biggest Event: Getting accepted to Millersville!
Listening: Marillion, Paul Simon, and a lot of Explosions in the Sky.

( Year In Review )

In conclusion: In spite of the crazy and the disappointment of the first part of the year, things were actually pretty peachy keen this year. I'm looking forward to the next one quite a bit. :)

Dear internet:

why are you such an angry place. there is no reason to be angry. you should be chill like me. yes.

Now, if you will excuse me, I have a Hogan's Heroes fanfic about White Rabbit White Rabbit to finish writing, a movie in French, and a Frank Sinatra stealing a train to watch.


also as a postscript my sister's got me addicted to In The Heights send help!