Just some randomness
posted by J.B.P. at 2:14 AM
Tuesday, March 20
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
- Perhaps, but not just now
- With Honors
- Testing...One, Two, Three
- The GradCafe
- This Veggie Thing
- Death Walks Beside Me
- The Grump(y old man's) Stump (lectures)
- Apps Update
- A Classic Novel
- Leci n'est pas une pipe.
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.
1 Comments:
Diet Coke, Free Time, and Sprinkler Heads - I think all they were missing was the yard gnome
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