Alpha+ Instincts
I'm so sick of these terrible instincts,
It's so hard now just to fight them.
It's so hard now just to fight them.
posted by J.B.P. at 7:10 PM
Sunday, November 27
About Me
- 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.
The List
- Keep finance records up to date
- Remain under my envelopes per month (0/33)
- Put $800 away each month (0/33)
- Keep monthly card balances under $300 (0/33)
- Develop means for a passive income
- Specifically save money in three different accounts (0/33)
- Make a will
- Purchase a house
- Take on any remaining bills
- Buy a motorcycle
- Buy a good road bike
- Update my blog once a week (1/143)
- Spend one week a year in solitude (0/3)
- Grab a pint once a week (0/143)
- Be in a committed relationship
- Reflect on how I’m using my freetime once a month (0/33)
- Recap each day at the end of that day, then let it go (3/1001)
- Go camping once a summer (0/3)
- Try a new restaurant each month (0/33)
- Cook a new recipe bi-weekly (0/72)
- Take one not-for-credit class a year (0/3)
- Go to a play once a year (0/3)
- Learn to play golf
- Learn to play the piano
- Learn yoga
- Go ice-fishing
- Take a bike tour/weeklong camping trip around Wisconsin
- Read one non-philosophy, non-fiction book a month (0/33)
- Read one fiction book a month (0/33)
- Memorize 5 new poems
- Eat at the dining nook table once a week (0/143)
- Clean the house weekly (0/143)
- Clear off flat surfaces bi-weekly (0/72)
- Create a personal library database
- Get rid of 101 materialistic items
- Make a list of what I’m looking for in a new house and what I can afford
- Clean my car weekly (1/143)
- Wash my car monthly (0/33)
- Wax car once every 3 months (0/11)
- Keep up-to-date on car maintenance
- Brush Relic once a week (0/143)
- Get Relic a friend
- Plant and maintain a garden through a season
- Organize files in my home office once a semester (0/5)
- Organize desk and files at work once a semester (0/5)
- Make the bed everyday for a month
- Do the dishes before bed everyday for a month
- Pass Premils
- Outline dissertation topic
- Become independent of my second jobs
- Teach my own course
- Sacrifice independence at work
- Keep CV current updated at the end of each semester (0/5)
- Get published
- Keep schedules up-to-date
- Time manage to create one day of rest per week (0/143)
- Attend an Eastern APA
- Go to at least one conference per year (0/3)
- Make it to Mardi Gras (0/3)
- Make it to each friend’s wedding (0/?)
- Make it to Texas
- Make it to visit Tiff
- Make it home twice a year (0/6)
- Take a long weekend to nowhere
- Get a passport
- Leave the country
- Take a family vacation
- Make a 101-things-that-make-me-happy list
- Shop farmers market once a month in season (0/26)
- Work out 3 times a week (3/429)
- Learn 1 pack of vocabulary words a week (0/143)
- Volunteer tutoring or reading
- Give blood 6 times per year (0/16.5)
- Get a real massage
- Bike to campus every day the weather permits it
- Go on a meditation retreat
- Meditate daily for a season
- Keep a daily to-do list
- Do a years worth of 5-minute writing
- Compliment 3 times daily
- Take my vitamins
- Take one month of martial arts classes
- Do home exercises daily
- Do stretches nightly
- Train for and run a 5K
- Take a month off from alcohol
- Bring packed lunch to work for 1 month straight
- Go strict vegan for 1 month
- Achieve a BMI < 13% (Currently 19.5%)
- Be able to bench my own body weight
- Remove all caffeine for one month
- Call home once a week (1/143)
- E-mail home twice a week (2/286)
- Keep in touch with My Five once a month (0/33)
- Remember friends’ birthdays
- Get a family portrait taken
- Put up more pictures of friends on my walls
- Write a letter each week (0/143)
- Have a dinner party once a season (0/11)
- Play more games with friends
- Make a new 101 in 1,0001 List
Finance:
Purchases and Expenditures:
Lifestyle & Experiences:
Household:
Career:
Travel:
Health and Wellbeing:
Relationships:
Goal-setting:
- 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
Between the Bookends
Queued on the Top Shelf (UPDATED!)
Divergent Tags (Updated)
Cost of the War in Iraq
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Possible Worlds
- Really Away
- Away
- Through the Veil
- Thanksgiving
- Forbidden Love
- Mindless...Thankfully Mindless
- Love...what a pity
- On Achievement
- Autobiographical
- Ubiquitous update
Disclaimer:
I hereby declare that anything I have written for posting on Divergent World is purely an extramural utterance according to the AAUP. I am in no way speaking for the University nor in any specific affiliation to the University when I post on this site; instead, I am exercising my right as a private citizen to express my opinions.
2 Comments:
what?
Jeff want to rage against the society that beget him. He knows that he is smarter than the majority of the people in the world. But instead of reveling in it, doing drugs, having wild sex, and making mad cash he wants to push the envelope and see what lies beyond it.
He dreams of finding some philosophical truth or possibly some group uber-elite that manipulate the people that run the world. But to do this he must fight the instincts that draw him to the good life, the easy life, the sexual life. For these are the things that anchor him in a static worldview. But to break this, he must rage against not only the world but also much of himself. This is why he is morose so often but giddy on occasions when he gives into these insticts, only to feel guilty and morose again when he remembers.
At least, thats what I got from the two line quote.
- Deek
P.S. I bullshat most of that.
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