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Watching the dust dance his sight seemed unusually keen, for he imagined that he could actually focus on each mote…tens of thousands of them were held in his mind as they formed and reformed into exquisite patterns, ghostly images that poised in air only to dissolve and be reborn again.

"What do you see?" But Melchior couldn't answer. "Good. One should be dumbfounded to see reality for the first time -- worlds coming and going like dust in a beam of sunlight."

Friday, June 3

Insomnia at its finest

My Star Wars Personality (using OCEAN)

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Name: J.B.P.
Location: Madison, Wisconsin, United States

I'm currently a PhD candidate at UW-Madison. My current research focuses on the problem of substitutivity of co-referring terms, with special emphasis on simple sentences and a direct-reference account of proper names.

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The List

      Finance:

    1. Keep finance records up to date
    2. Remain under my envelopes per month (0/33)
    3. Put $800 away each month (0/33)
    4. Keep monthly card balances under $300 (0/33)
    5. Develop means for a passive income
    6. Specifically save money in three different accounts (0/33)
    7. Make a will

      Purchases and Expenditures:

    1. Purchase a house
    2. Take on any remaining bills
    3. Buy a motorcycle
    4. Buy a good road bike

      Lifestyle & Experiences:

    1. Update my blog once a week (1/143)
    2. Spend one week a year in solitude (0/3)
    3. Grab a pint once a week (0/143)
    4. Be in a committed relationship
    5. Reflect on how I’m using my freetime once a month (0/33)
    6. Recap each day at the end of that day, then let it go (3/1001)
    7. Go camping once a summer (0/3)
    8. Try a new restaurant each month (0/33)
    9. Cook a new recipe bi-weekly (0/72)
    10. Take one not-for-credit class a year (0/3)
    11. Go to a play once a year (0/3)
    12. Learn to play golf
    13. Learn to play the piano
    14. Learn yoga
    15. Go ice-fishing
    16. Take a bike tour/weeklong camping trip around Wisconsin
    17. Read one non-philosophy, non-fiction book a month (0/33)
    18. Read one fiction book a month (0/33)
    19. Memorize 5 new poems
    20. Eat at the dining nook table once a week (0/143)

      Household:

    1. Clean the house weekly (0/143)
    2. Clear off flat surfaces bi-weekly (0/72)
    3. Create a personal library database
    4. Get rid of 101 materialistic items
    5. Make a list of what I’m looking for in a new house and what I can afford
    6. Clean my car weekly (1/143)
    7. Wash my car monthly (0/33)
    8. Wax car once every 3 months (0/11)
    9. Keep up-to-date on car maintenance
    10. Brush Relic once a week (0/143)
    11. Get Relic a friend
    12. Plant and maintain a garden through a season
    13. Organize files in my home office once a semester (0/5)
    14. Organize desk and files at work once a semester (0/5)
    15. Make the bed everyday for a month
    16. Do the dishes before bed everyday for a month

      Career:

    1. Pass Premils
    2. Outline dissertation topic
    3. Become independent of my second jobs
    4. Teach my own course
    5. Sacrifice independence at work
    6. Keep CV current updated at the end of each semester (0/5)
    7. Get published
    8. Keep schedules up-to-date
    9. Time manage to create one day of rest per week (0/143)
    10. Attend an Eastern APA
    11. Go to at least one conference per year (0/3)

      Travel:

    1. Make it to Mardi Gras (0/3)
    2. Make it to each friend’s wedding (0/?)
    3. Make it to Texas
    4. Make it to visit Tiff
    5. Make it home twice a year (0/6)
    6. Take a long weekend to nowhere
    7. Get a passport
    8. Leave the country
    9. Take a family vacation

      Health and Wellbeing:

    1. Make a 101-things-that-make-me-happy list
    2. Shop farmers market once a month in season (0/26)
    3. Work out 3 times a week (3/429)
    4. Learn 1 pack of vocabulary words a week (0/143)
    5. Volunteer tutoring or reading
    6. Give blood 6 times per year (0/16.5)
    7. Get a real massage
    8. Bike to campus every day the weather permits it
    9. Go on a meditation retreat
    10. Meditate daily for a season
    11. Keep a daily to-do list
    12. Do a years worth of 5-minute writing
    13. Compliment 3 times daily
    14. Take my vitamins
    15. Take one month of martial arts classes
    16. Do home exercises daily
    17. Do stretches nightly
    18. Train for and run a 5K
    19. Take a month off from alcohol
    20. Bring packed lunch to work for 1 month straight
    21. Go strict vegan for 1 month
    22. Achieve a BMI < 13% (Currently 19.5%)
    23. Be able to bench my own body weight
    24. Remove all caffeine for one month

      Relationships:

    1. Call home once a week (1/143)
    2. E-mail home twice a week (2/286)
    3. Keep in touch with My Five once a month (0/33)
    4. Remember friends’ birthdays
    5. Get a family portrait taken
    6. Put up more pictures of friends on my walls
    7. Write a letter each week (0/143)
    8. Have a dinner party once a season (0/11)
    9. Play more games with friends

      Goal-setting:

    1. Make a new 101 in 1,0001 List
  • jbpretti
  • JBP
  • Book of Secrets
  • The Grump Stump
  • Island Girl's Money
  • Zeta Psi - Beta Tau
  • The Meaning of Life
  • "The World As I See It" by Einstein
  • "The Immorality of Eating Meat" by Mylan Engel, Jr.

Shorts and Films

  • The Elegant Universe
  • Get Happy
  • To Die?
  • An Interview with God
  • Still Free
  • Karma...kinda

Between the Bookends

  • Philosophy of Science


  • Muhammad

Queued on the Top Shelf (UPDATED!)

  • The Once and Future King


  • Nine Horses

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Possible Worlds

  • Films about Ghosts
  • An Interview with God
  • 9th Day
  • Silence from the Mirrored Souls of my feet
  • Summer Rhythm
  • 57 Hours
  • Graduation
  • G minus 2 days...
  • And One
  • Regalia
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