this is a challenge to myself, to accomplish these 101 things in the next 1001 days. i'll be checking them off as i do them, so if this post shows up in your rss reader again, i've probably checked a few things off. my end date will be Thursday, February 19, 2009.
inspired by/written for the livejournal community mission 101:
Career/Architecture
- Get Licensed
- finish my IDP hours
- pass the ARE
- get a building built, that i can be proud of
- 08.27.06
have at least 1 photorealistically rendered project, for portfolio purposes - have tangible design input on something at my current job
write my self evaluation for my annual reviewget hired permanently- write my next self evaluation for my second annual review
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- 04.15.07
change jobs, to one that makes me happier - enter an architectural competition
- 05.01.07
make all of my portfolio presentable on my website - subscribe to an architectural magazine for one year, and read every issue cover to cover before the next one arrives.
- read at least two books on starting my own design firm, and...
- - learn enough to start accepting real freelance work
Culture
- read The Fountain Head
- 02.03.07
read midnight's children - read the satanic verses
- read 'the visual display of quantatative information'
- 04.??.07
read 'a thousand years of non-linear history' - see The Fountain Head
- 10.29.06
see metropolis - re-read roland barthes' Mythologies until i understand semiology
- read and understand at least one of derrida's works.
Internets
- 06.07.06
make a wordpress template that integrates with the rest of archGFX - make a wordpress template on a deadline, not for my own use
- support the open-source projects and communities that i value (gimp, gaim, amarok,
last.fm, flickr,wordpress, etc.) - hang out with a new friend i did not meet on the internets
- 11/2006
post about architecture once a week for a monthi should have resolved to do so without asides. - make my 1001st post
- write about music convincingly enough to get a check from amazon (for associate links)
- take a class on javascript
- 12.09.07
stop being addicted to SG. at all.
Entertainment
- buy the following albums:
- mogwai - mr. beast
- the appleseed cast - peregrine
- ted leo and the pharmacists - ??
- 10.21.06
the dresden dolls - yes, virginia - 10.31.06
mates of state - bring it back - 04.28.07
the fiery furnaces - bitter tea - 10.31.06
peeping tom - s/t - voxtrot - mothers, sisters, daughters and wives
- 08.07.06
jonah matranga - there's a lot in here (and pay more than asking) - 08.07.06
jonah matranga - songs from sacramento (and pay more than asking)
- find a way to find new music that doesn't involve downloading the album, and then deciding whether it's worth paying for what i've already 'stolen'
- 10.15.06
finish X-men Legends part I - finish X-men Legends part II
- attend a show by a local band at least once a month for 6 months
- listen to 100,000 songs on last.fm
- see all 50 of the top independent films of all time
Married Life
- have a relationship that lasts the better part of a decade
- go on a honeymoon
- 06.03.06
find replacement tennants for my current apartment - 06.24.06
move into someplace without roommates (that are not my wife or my pet) - make a wallpaper of the wifest
- 8.20.06
spend an entire day cuddling - give melanie a proper birthday or valentines or anniversary
Health/Food
- do a century ...
- - for a charity
- get back up to 170 lbs.
- go running 5 times a week for 8 weeks.
- do isometric excercises once a day for a month
- go to the dentist every 6 months
- 9.16.06
learn to make pizza, from scratch, without help - Get a grill, and...
- - host a vegan barbeque for 8 or more people
- go to map room's beer school
- do sam's wines' beer grand tasting
- take a class on wine appreciation
Automotive
- take sadie to jon for an oil change
- pay off sadie (early, if it happens within the 1001 days)
- get a repair manual for sadie, and...
- - learn to change her oil
- - fix or replace at least one thing
- go five years without a speeding ticket
- go five years without an accident
- 06.03.06
renew my driver's license (i.e. don't fail the test) - take an advanced driving class
- 02.20.07
take a road trip! (that's not to visit family) - visit my sister in kansas city
Design
- 05.01.07
do CSS reboot 2007 do may1reboot 2007- learn actionscript
- reboot again in may 2008
- design a UT2K4 map before UT2K7 is released
- design a UT2K7 map
- find a way to incorporate the open source ethos into the practice of architecture (ref 1, ref 2)
- go without coffee in the morning for a month
- visit a foreign country that is not canada
Politics
- donate to ACLU and EFF
- attend a protest or a rally
- write my congressman
- 10.11.06
move my voter registration to my current address vote in 2006 elections- vote in 2008 elections
- vote in a primary election
- 04.17.07
make an informed decision about every single candidate on a ballot
Fun
- decide on and buy a new mp3 player
- layout (to a point) a full-size tattoo
- get said tattoo
- do critical mass for 3 months in a row
- go skiing more than once a year
- go skydiving
- learn to play go
- learn to play dominoes (both cuban and british)
- find someone to play chess with regularly (or somewhere to play chess regularly)
- give blood at least once
- get a laptop, and...
- - run all of its hardware under linux
Meta
- 05.27.06
make a nice looking 'completed' CSS class for this list - write another 101 list
7 Comments
Crap man, that’s inspiring. I’m totally going to steal some of those goals for myself.
Ya. Really awesome list. Kind of “My Name is Earl”-esq as well. How are you going to get all that done? Like, do you have a plan of attack? I wonder what goals I would attempt.
it’s mostly loose in my head, i have an idea of an order, but not much more. some of them are obvious, like the licensing stuff that takes a specific number of hours and starts at a specific time.
i need to be ticking off about 1 every 10 days, so we’ll see how it goes.
Funny idea
although I’m sure that i wouldn’t get it done if I created such a list.
well, that’s the trick, is writing goals in an accomplishable (?) way.
a lot of the health stuff i intend to do for longer, but i had to write them so that there’s just a bar to get past.
and actually writing the stuff down makes it a lot more concrete, so that when i’m thinking about what to do after i finish dinner, i remember to do things on the list.
that’s awesome
good luck on the fountainhead, it’s brain heavy and looong and go sounds really interesting (i also want to learn, mostly because i saw it on pi)
yeah, none of the books are really ‘light’. i’ve already started and stopped twice with “midnight’s children”, and derrida and barthes both put me to sleep in college.
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