My start date was 4/05/2012, which takes me to an end date of 1/01/2015. Italics indicate completed items.
Goals completed: 11/101Goals in progress: ~18/101
Work/Studies
- Complete my General Exams
- Write my dissertation proposal and pass my defense
- Write my Ph.D. dissertation and pass my dissertation defense
- Graduate with my Ph.D.!
- Get my post-grad-school work started
- Publish at least three conference or journal papers
- Have a project featured on the MAKE blog
- Redesign my professional website
- Direct another show
- Costume design another show
- Work through The Artist’s Way
- Spend a month choreographing something every day
Travel
- Visit at least 4 countries
- Attend the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
- Visit Washington DC
- Spend a day in Providence
- Go to Cape Cod
- Spend a day at the beach near Boston (Crane Beach, 5/26/12)
- Go to my college reunion in 2013
- Visit the Boston Harbor Islands
- See the Northern Lights
- Go on a road trip with K.
Experiences/Education
- See the glass flowers exhibit at the Harvard Natural History Museum
- Attend at least 75 theater/dance/music performances, which seems like a lot, but averages to only 2 or 3 per month...So far:Yesterday Happened, Sleep No More, Totem
- See 5 movies in theaters
- Finish watching all the episodes of Star Trek Voyager (halfway through season 7!)
- Watch a Woody Allen movie
- Eat at 20 new-to-me restaurants in Boston/Cambridge
- Read at least 10 fiction books (First 10: The Help, Call of the Go-Away Bird, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, Red, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Anyone But You, The Emperor's Edge, The Habit of Art, The Law of Similars)
- Read at least 10 non-fiction books (not for work...) (So far: Art and Fear, Blink, Bossypants, The Fire Starter Sessions)
- Read a book a week for a year (can be fiction, non-fiction, work-related, plays, random...) (Started 6/17: so far 6/52)
- Go to 5 different museums (So far: Harvard Natural History Museum)
- Learn to ski again
- Learn at least one new programming language
- Take a class in something I’ve never done
- Go to a contact improv jam
- Learn a new song on the piano
- Go whale watching again
- Send a postcard to PostSecret
- See a show on Broadway again
- Go ice skating again
- Go fruit picking again
- Go to the ballet in Boston
- See a Cirque du Soleil show (Totem, 6/23/12)
- Do something big spontaneously
- Go to a festival of some kind
- Watch two TED talks every month
- See another meteor shower
Creativity
- Write pages at 750 Words everyday for a month
- Do a NaBloPoMo again (Participating this August!)
- Participate in the 48 Hour Film Festival again
- Create something every day for a month
- Sew a dress from a 1950’s pattern
- Make at least 10 garments from scratch
- Cut my refashioning pile down by at least half
- Actually put some things in my Etsy shop
- Sell my jewelry/sewing work at a craft fair
- Redesign my blog
Fashion/Style
- Complete at least one me-made challenge (So Zo blog) (May 2012)
- Wear every item in my closet/drawers (or donate those that just won’t get worn). Possible exception: formal dresses.
- Learn how to wear bright lipstick, and then do so at least once in public
- Get a noticeable haircut (5/28/2012)
- Cut down to 50 pairs of shoes (which still seems high...)
- Get and wear a nice bikini
- Use up or get rid of all scented body lotions
- Wear makeup every day for a week
Others
- Have a weekly “date” with K. for a year
- Donate at least 1001 items to charity (current total: 263)
- Complement 10 strangers
- Buy at least 5 things from Etsy vendors
- Send letters/emails to 5 people I’ve fallen out of touch with
- Donate to 3 Kickstarter campaigns
- Buy something from kids selling things at a stand
- Donate to my alma mater each year (So far: 2012)
- Send birthday cards to 10 friends
- Send 10 cards to people just for fun/thinking of them
- Comment on blogs every day for a month
Life/Health
- Get a car
- Head towards a more minimal lifestyle- get rid of more things I don’t need!
- Get rid of A Thing A Day for a month
- Spend a full day without using the internet
- Make the bed every day for a month
- Have a clean kitchen sink at the end of every day for a month
- Start taking vitamins again - at least one month taking vitamins every day
- Go to at least 10 exercise classes (any type) (1/10)
- Get back to regular workout schedule of at least 3 times/week. Maintain for a year
- Return to (and maintain) my comfortable weight range
- Go 10 days without spending any money
- Research and start a retirement account
Food
- Try green smoothies
- Spend at least one week without eating sugar
- Try 50 new recipes (So far: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/06/cinammon_rolls_/ 5/27/12, http://www.food.com/recipe/crock-pot-thai-chicken-thighs-106499 5/27/12, http://allrecipes.com/recipe/tex-mex-burger-with-cajun-mayo/detail.aspx 6/01/12, http://allrecipes.com/recipe/nanas-mashed-turnip/, sumac chicken from http://archive.feedblitz.com/708868/~4075539 6/30/12, sour milk cornbread from http://anewscafe.com/2012/01/30/do-not-cry-over-soured-milk/ 7/01/12, http://allrecipes.com/recipe/caramelized-turnips/ 7/08/12, fennel salad from http://www.cosmopolitan.com/food/easy-recipes/perfect-comfort-food-0409 7/14/12)
- Make the Pioneer Woman’s cinnamon rolls (5/27/12)
- Learn to make cheesecake
- Try Ethiopian food
- Try Afghan food
- Get bagels in Brookline
- Take lunch into work for a month
- Try 3 new fruits or vegetables (rambutan, jackfruit, quenepa)
- Learn to make gnocchi
Finally...
- Finish another 101 in 1001 list
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