Amy in 2008

2008, so far, is 98% worth living.

In 2005, Amy did 113 things, went 42 places, met 0 people, and consumed 149 products.

Years: 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Complete my clean-sweep program
  2. GTTFD — completed 3 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Take more pictures — Worth doing!
  2. Prepare for and then take the GRE — Worth doing!
  3. Expand my geographical domain — Worth doing!
  4. attach photos to more of my goals and entries — Worth doing!
  5. learn about money & achieve greater financial independence — Worth doing!
  6. write more, think more, be more expressive and more open, develop my ideas and follow the white rabbit — Worth doing!
  7. be more socially active — Worth doing!
  8. buy a bike — Worth doing!
  9. Order prints of my digital photos — Worth doing!
  10. present a paper at an academic conference — Worth doing!
  11. Attend 3 teaching workshops — Worth doing!
  12. prepare for my practica and clinical internship — Worth doing!
  13. finish my paper before school resumes — Worth doing!
  14. prepare for second semester — Worth doing!
  15. run a 5k again
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Buy original art
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Cathedral Of Learning — Worth visiting!
  2. Construction Junction — Worth visiting!
  3. Ambridge Bike Shop — Worth visiting!
  4. Brookline — Worth visiting!
  5. Lot 17 — Worth visiting!
  6. Thai Palace — Worth visiting!
  7. SOUPer Bowl — Worth visiting!
  8. Power Center — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity — Worth consuming!
  2. The Social Animal — Worth consuming!
  3. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book
  4. From Subjects to Subjectivities: A Handbook of Interpretive and Participatory Methods (Qualitative Studies in Psychology) — Worth consuming!
  5. Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture — Worth consuming!
  6. Who Cares?: Rediscovering Community — Worth consuming!
  7. Distinguishing Psychological From Organic Disorders: Screening for Psychological Masquerade — Worth consuming!
  8. Women & Analysis: Dialogues on Psychoanalytic Views of Femininity. — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series)
  2. Seven (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  3. Donnie Darko — Worth consuming!
  4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Sleeper — Worth consuming!
  6. Leon - The Professional (Uncut International Version) — Worth consuming!
  7. Solaris - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  8. Apocalypse Now — Worth consuming!
  9. Braveheart
  10. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. To Kill a Mockingbird (Universal Legacy Series) — Worth consuming!
  12. 3 Women - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  13. The Deer Hunter — Worth consuming!
  14. Schindler's List
  15. West Side Story (Special Edition DVD Collector's Set) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Three Philosophers — Worth consuming!
  2. De koninck — Worth consuming!
  3. french vanilla organic whole milk yogurt — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. finish this damn paper! — completed about 1 month later
  2. watch all of Spike Lee's films
  3. learn how to prepare ten excellent vegetarian meals
  4. break a board — completed 25 days later
  5. earn an advanced degree — completed 25 days later
  6. donate to Hillary's campaign — completed 22 days later
  7. run 5k in 30 minutes — completed 19 days later
  8. run 5 5ks this year
  9. present work at 5 conferences in 2008 — completed about 1 month later
  10. Give 6000 cheers — completed 17 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. adopt a vegan diet — Worth doing!
  2. Learn about wine, beer, and cocktails — Worth doing!
  3. Find and do some volunteer work in which I will not only be helpful to others, but will benefit myself through learning, training, or new experience. — Worth doing!
  4. fill out my FAFSA/ apply for financial aid — Worth doing!
  5. serve fewer masters — Worth doing!
  6. Learn a craft — Worth doing!
  7. Fall in love — Worth doing!
  8. get my Women's and Gender Studies graduate certificate — Worth doing!
  9. Relocate — Worth doing!
  10. GTTFD — Worth doing!
  11. go on the nuvaring — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. get a record player
  2. run a 10K
Read:
  1. Man’s search for meaning — Worth consuming!
  2. The Master and Margarita — Worth consuming!
  3. Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy — Worth consuming!
  4. The Rorschach, a Comprehensive System: Basic Foundations (Wiley Series on Personality Processes) — Worth consuming!
  5. Rorschach Workbook for the Comprehensive System — Worth consuming!
  6. The Medium is The Massage — Worth consuming!
  7. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future — Worth consuming!
  8. Technology as Symptom and Dream — Worth consuming!
  9. Liddel and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Eyes Without a Face - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  2. Before Sunrise — Worth consuming!
  3. She Hate Me — Worth consuming!
  4. My Life as a Dog - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  5. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs: Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  6. The Lives of Others — Worth consuming!
  7. Knocked Up (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
  8. Superbad (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  9. No Country for Old Men — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. ReadyMade — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. get ready for my Hawaii vacation (er... conference) — completed 2 months later
  2. be true to myself — completed 3 months later
  3. finish this semester — completed 27 days later
  4. Complete the Dare to Stair Challenge
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get a bikini wax — Worth doing!
  2. Learn some art history
  3. meditate — Worth doing!
  4. learn some useful household skills — Worth doing!
  5. Donate blood — Worth doing!
  6. stop using plastic bags — Worth doing!
  7. Be more efficient when working — Worth doing!
  8. live within my means — Worth doing!
  9. be more confident — Worth doing!
  10. try various 30 day challenges — Worth doing!
  11. finish this damn paper! — Worth doing!
  12. break a board — Worth doing!
  13. earn an advanced degree — Worth doing!
  14. donate to Hillary's campaign — Worth doing!
  15. run 5k in 30 minutes — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. do a vipassana meditation retreat
  2. watch all of Spike Lee's films
  3. Complete the Dare to Stair Challenge
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Steubenville — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Portable Nietzsche (Viking Portable Library) — Worth consuming!
  2. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity — Worth consuming!
  3. 1984 (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
  4. As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)
  5. Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
  6. The Postman Always Rings Twice
  7. Slightly Engaged (Red Dress Ink) — Worth consuming!
  8. I Am Going To Be Small — Worth consuming!
  9. Me vs. Me — Worth consuming!
  10. The Madame Paul Affair — Worth consuming!
  11. Long Time Relationship — Worth consuming!
  12. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing — Worth consuming!
  13. The Rorschach Technique: An Introductory Manual. — Worth consuming!
  14. The Elements of Style (Unabridged) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. M - Criterion Collection (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Batman Begins (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Office - Season One — Worth consuming!
  5. High Tension — Worth consuming!
  6. Robocop Trilogy — Worth consuming!
  7. Night Watch — Worth consuming!
  8. Weeds - Season One — Worth consuming!
  9. Zizek! — Worth consuming!
  10. The Descent (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. Starship Troopers
  12. Weeds Season 2 — Worth consuming!
  13. Weeds - Season 3 — Worth consuming!
  14. Dan in Real Life — Worth consuming!
  15. The Wire - The Complete Fifth Season — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. learn to program
  2. publish
  3. co-facilitate a therapy group — completed 15 days later
  4. write a chick-lit novel
  5. prepare for my clinical internship
  6. be a big sister in the Big Brother Big sister program — completed 6 days later
  7. have multiple streams of passive income
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. take better care of my skin — Worth doing!
  2. listen to more music; find a new album every month — Worth doing!
  3. Become more computer literate — Worth doing!
  4. jog 3-6 times week for 30 minutes... and/ or do something good for my body every day-- develop a routine! — Worth doing!
  5. take sleep seriously — Worth doing!
  6. review how I use 43T — Worth doing!
  7. present work at 5 conferences in 2008 — Worth doing!
  8. finish this semester — Worth doing!
  9. mental health worker — Worth doing!
  10. have a cat — Worth doing!
  11. do my 2007 taxes — Worth doing!
  12. be a therapist — Worth doing!
  13. Win an award — Worth doing!
  14. win an award for my writing — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. get a second cat
  2. Do the 2008 TBR challenge
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Pavement — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror — Worth consuming!
  2. Box Office Poison — Worth consuming!
  3. Incredible Change-Bots — Worth consuming!
  4. Conversation #1 — Worth consuming!
  5. The Next Thing on My List: A Novel — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Adventures of Indiana Jones - The Complete DVD Movie Collection (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Jules and Jim — Worth consuming!
  4. Jungle Fever — Worth consuming!
  5. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
  6. Weeds Season 2 — Worth consuming!
  7. The Bourne Ultimatum — Worth consuming!
  8. The Kingdom — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Hoegaarden — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. volunteer more
  2. get a scholarship or monetary award of over $200
  3. detox
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. drive less — Worth doing!
  2. Find a therapist — Worth doing!
  3. cook more and better — Worth doing!
  4. get ready for my Hawaii vacation (er... conference) — Worth doing!
  5. co-facilitate a therapy group — Worth doing!
  6. be a big sister in the Big Brother Big sister program — Worth doing!
  7. get a well paying job — Worth doing!
  8. see Bright Eyes in concert — Worth doing!
  9. spring clean — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. learn more history
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Brillo Box — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale — Worth consuming!
  2. 300 — Worth consuming!
  3. The Complete Maus — Worth consuming!
  4. BOP! More Box Office Poison — Worth consuming!
  5. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth — Worth consuming!
  6. David Boring — Worth consuming!
  7. The Plain Janes — Worth consuming!
  8. Good as Lily (Minx) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Progeny Blues — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Bourne Supremacy (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Suicide Club (Suicide Circle)
  3. The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  4. Pandora's Box - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  5. The Bucket List
  6. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly — Worth consuming!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. write my Psychology of Gender syllabus for fall 2008 — completed 18 days later
  2. take a train trip
  3. have a massage regularly
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. don't give up — Worth doing!
  2. Speak and write with spectacular eloquence (and with greater frequency!) — Worth doing!
  3. Know how to fix more things — Worth doing!
  4. publish in a journal or make a conference presentation — Worth doing!
  5. Get rid of clothes I don't wear — Worth doing!
  6. renew my APA membership — Worth doing!
  7. shoot a gun
  8. try surfing — Worth doing!
  9. go boogie boarding — Worth doing!
  10. stay in a hostel — Worth doing!
  11. eat real ramen, from an actual ramen bar — Worth doing!
  12. play in the ocean — Worth doing!
  13. go to Hawaii — Worth doing!
  14. network — Worth doing!
  15. transcend binary gender logic — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. learn german
  2. read one new poet a month
  3. become a Fulbright scholar
  4. run 5 5ks this year
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Netherlands
  2. Toronto
  3. Duquesne Incline
  4. Pittsburgh Zoo
  5. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  6. Ohiopyle
  7. East End Brewery
  8. Church Brew Works
  9. Mr. Small's Theatre
  10. Yoga On Centre
  11. Nuin Center
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. O'ahu — Worth visiting!
  2. Waikiki Beach — Worth visiting!
  3. Honolulu — Worth visiting!
  4. Honolulu International Airport — Worth visiting!
  5. Pearl Harbor — Worth visiting!
  6. USS Arizona Memorial — Worth visiting!
  7. Diamond Head — Worth visiting!
  8. International Marketplace — Worth visiting!
  9. Chinatown — Worth visiting!
  10. Ala Moana Center — Worth visiting!
  11. New Jersey — Worth visiting!
  12. Mahwah — Worth visiting!
  13. Ramapo College Of New Jersey — Worth visiting!
  14. H.R. 57 — Worth visiting!
  15. Cupple's Stadium — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Good in Bed — Worth consuming!
  2. Sleepwalk: and Other Stories — Worth consuming!
  3. After Dark — Worth consuming!
  4. Re-Gifters — Worth consuming!
  5. Shortcomings — Worth consuming!
  6. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari — Worth consuming!
  2. 3 Extremes — Worth consuming!
  3. Everything Is Illuminated — Worth consuming!
  4. Quest for Fire — Worth consuming!
  5. Buried Treasure (1929) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Hole (Dong) — Worth consuming!
  7. Hellboy [Blu-ray] — Worth consuming!
  8. Modern Times (1936) — Worth consuming!
  9. The Taste of Tea (Limited Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Horton Hears a Who — Worth consuming!
  11. 30 Days of Night — Worth consuming!
  12. Sex and the City: The Movie — Worth consuming!
  13. Standard Operating Procedure [Theatrical Release] — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. try spinning
  2. finish my summer projects
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. do my taxes — Worth doing!
  2. cook more often: compile lists of good things I can cook, things I'd like to cook, & put together a recipe book
  3. pay attention to my dreams — Worth doing!
  4. make more art — Worth doing!
  5. find something better to do to unwind than play on the internet — Worth doing!
  6. organize a meetup for Washington, DC area 43 Things users this summer — Not worth doing
  7. work for awareness of HIV/AIDS — Worth doing!
  8. Watch more good movies — Worth doing!
  9. get into grad school — Worth doing!
  10. stay real in grad school/ make the most of grad school (as an instrument) — Worth doing!
  11. organize — Worth doing!
  12. become film literate — Worth doing!
  13. install a pull-up bar in a doorway in my house — Worth doing!
  14. Stop using paper cups — Worth doing!
  15. be true to myself — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. master my areas of amateurish interest and informal study
  2. Complete "The Artist's Way"
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Taj Mahal — Worth visiting!
  2. Mexico City — Worth visiting!
  3. The Red Ring
Read:
  1. Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century — Worth consuming!
  2. As Seen on TV — Worth consuming!
  3. Epileptic — Worth consuming!
  4. A Rulebook for Arguments — Worth consuming!
  5. We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.) — Worth consuming!
  6. Thinking from A to Z — Worth consuming!
  7. Individual Psychotherapy and the Science of Psychodynamics (Hodder Arnold Publication) — Worth consuming!
  8. Learning From Life: Becoming a Psychoanalyst — Worth consuming!
  9. Sputnik Sweetheart — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The L Word - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  2. Breaking Away — Worth consuming!
  3. Running With Scissors
  4. The Nanny Diaries — Worth consuming!
  5. Hellboy 2: The Golden Army — Worth consuming!
  6. Love Story (Love means never having to say you're sorry.) — Not worth consuming
  7. Persepolis — Worth consuming!

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