101 Things in 1001 Days.
I feel ambitious, so taking a page from Bri's (side_streets) book, I'm going to come up with 101 things I'd like to accomplish within the next 1001 days.
The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (i.e. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
(From Triplux.com)
START DATE
April 12, 2007
END DATE
January 7, 2010
KEY:
Highlighted text means that the task has been completed.
Type in italics means that the task is in progress.
101 THINGS IN 1001 DAYS:
1. Finish editing the Honors College film for Jonathan the film I shot in Production II.
2. Raise my GPA to a 3.8.
At end of Fall 2006 semester: 3.626
At end of Spring 2007 semester: 3.719
At the end of Fall 2007: 3.750
At the end of Spring 2008: 3.742
At the end of Fall 2008: 3.761 (so far)
3. Fall in love with someone who loves me in return.
4. Get an internship at a small film production music supervision company.
5. Ride the Staten Island ferry.
6. Complete a good student short. One that I'd be more than willing to submit to festivals.
7. Turn in my community service sheets to Charlotte before she kills me.
8. Lose 40 65 pounds by revamping my diet and working out regularly.
9. Start a Relay For Life team.
10. Write an entry in Dinner With Your Family every day for two weeks.
11. Purchase a really incredible digital camera.
12. Accumulate a wardrobe that isn't embarrassing.
13. Establish a personal style.
14. Invest in a curling iron.
15. Learn how to walk in high heels.
16. Purchase at least 50 CDs.
17. Spend an afternoon at the Museum of the Moving Image.
18. Dabble in photography and subject my work to serious critique.
19. Sign up for a Kaplan course for my GREs.
20. Apply to as many graduate programs in the city as possible.
21. Graduate June 2009 at least magna cum laude.
22. Get a MacBook Pro with the best capabilities and film editing software.
23. Go on a road trip with Christy.
24. Go on a road trip with these people.
25. Learn how to sew using a sewing machine.
26. Visit Florida and spend time with Jillian, Lisa, Jessie, Justin, Mike, etc.
27. Take pictures in a photobooth.
28. See Devo in concert.
29. Attend the Pitchfork Music Festival.
30. Attend South by Southwest.
31. Write, film, and edit a feature-length film.
32. Have work exhibited at a film festival.
33. Purchase some sexy lingerie.
34. Renew my passport.
35. Open a savings account.
36. Initiate a conversation with an arbitrary cutie.
37. Be able to run a mile without stopping.
38. Get an internship with an independent music label that is music-related.
39. Get an internship at a magazine.
40. Read 15 banned books that I have not already read. (2 out of 15)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
41. Read 20 books that are not from the list of banned books. (8 out of 20)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas, Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury, Love Is A Mixtape by Rob Sheffield, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
42. Read the Bible -- Old Testament and New Testament.
43. Go to another Conan O'Brien taping.
44. Learn to drive on an actual street and going faster than 20 miles per hour.
45. Host a theme party.
46. Purchase a CD & cassette player that will allow me to make good ol' fashioned mix tapes!
47. Have at least 200 Polaroid pictures displayed on my wall. (84 out of 200)
48. Purchase alcohol on my own.
49. Go a week without swearing.
50. Become a certified lifeguard.
51. Send for and place "YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL" stickers throughout Manhattan.
52. Watch 100 movies I've never seen before. (104 out of 100)
Annie Hall, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Singin' in the Rain, An American in Paris, Shortbus, Midnight Cowboy, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Jules and Jim, Raging Bull, Shine, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Fargo, Planet B-Boy, Silent Hill, High Tension, Wolf Creek, Quinceañera, Ordinary People, Junebug, Goodfellas, The Hours, Knocked Up, Spiderman 3, Shrek 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Art School Confidential, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Everything Is Illuminated, Guess Who, Children of Men, Slither, The Prestige, Take the Lead, Little Shop of Horrors, Ocean's Thirteen, The Illusionist, Cube Zero, The 6th Day, Victor Victoria, Primal Fear, Throw Momma From the Train, Stranger Than Fiction, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, American Dreamz, Stay Alive, Audition, Edison Force, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, License to Wed, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Music and Lyrics, Rest Stop, Jaws, Casino Royale, Layer Cake, Pan's Labyrinth, The Virgin Spring, Hairspray, Marnie, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Thank You For Smoking, The Sea Inside, V for Vendetta, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Live Flesh, The Devil's Backbone, Cat People, American Gangster, Gone to Earth, Pretty in Pink, Whirlpool, The Philadelphia Story, Belle de Jour, Gone Baby Gone, The Ice Storm, Starter For 10, Running With Scissors, Half Nelson, Point Break, Waitress, Planet Terror, The Siege, The Battle of Algiers, Penelope, Deathproof, This Is England, 27 Dresses, Transformers, I Could Never Be Your Woman, Lucas, A Mighty Heart, The Devil's Advocate, Jungle Fever, Training Day, Coffy, Red Sorghum, Philadelphia, Silverlake Life: The View From Here, The Happening
53. Learn basic Italian.
54. Purchase a 1" pin & magnet maker and start a pin & magnet selling business.
55. Become pretty good at writing HTML.
56. Be Richard Simmons for Halloween.
57. Have a pastry at Magnolia Bakery.
58. Reread all of the Harry Potter books.
59. Try five new cocktails.
60. Try five things recommended to me by other people.
61. Help out with lighting/editing/music/casting/whatever on a film that isn't mine.
62. Purchase an iPod.
63. Spend a day at the Bronx Zoo.
64. Purchase a record player.
65. Purchase at least 25 records. (50 out of 25)
66. Get a radio show.
67. Get a pair of glasses that doesn't cause me to squint.
68. Kiss someone under the mistletoe.
69. Put $1 in a piggy bank each week from now until the end of the 1001 days. At the end of the 1001 days, spend the money on anything I want.
70. Attend a wedding. My own does not count.
71. Watch 10 films on AFI's list of 100 Greatest American Movies that I have not already seen. (10 out of 10)
Annie Hall, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Singin' in the Rain, An American in Paris, Midnight Cowboy, Raging Bull, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Fargo, The Philadelphia Story, Jaws
72. Go to a state fair with friends.
73. Purchase an inexpensive 35mm camera and start taking pictures for an album.
74. Submit a piece of writing for publication in a literary magazine, anthology, etc.
75. Learn how to screenprint T-shirts.
76. Get a "real job" upon graduation.
77. Crochet my own tam hat.
78. Bowl higher than a 100.
79. Get married. Honestly, I'm not expecting it to happen and I don't consider it a "goal" to get hitched by 2010, but I figure it should be on the list. Y'know, just in case.
80. Purchase an original work of art.
81. Take a Photoshop class/seminar.
82. Ride the ferris wheel at Coney Island.
83. Eat a meal at Gray's Papaya.
84. Have the green tea ice cream from BAMN!
85. Get a pedicure for no good reason.
86. Go back to Islands of Adventure.
87. Eat the most unusual thing on the menu of a seemingly innocuous restaurant.
88. Send a secret to PostSecret.
89. Purchase a domain name and start a website. A real one.
90. Get a brazilian wax. Something tells me that this one isn't a good idea. Knock on wood.
91. Bake (from scratch) and decorate a batch of cookies.
92. Make a naughty-shaped birthday cake for someone.
93. Try cuisine from five countries. (4 out of 5)
Vietnamese, Indian, Japanese, Ethiopian
94. Get into a graduate school.
95. Make sure my sister applies to as many culinary schools colleges as possible.
96. Watch all of the Academy Award Best Picture nominees before that year's show.
97. Start taking a multivitamin regularly.
98. Go apple picking in upstate New York again.
99. Complete some sort of great creative collaboration with a fellow artist. This collaboration must be unrelated to film.
100. Mail mini-care packages to each of my long-distance friends.
101. Make another list of 101 things to do on January 7th, 2010.
The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (i.e. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
(From Triplux.com)
START DATE
April 12, 2007
END DATE
January 7, 2010
KEY:
Highlighted text means that the task has been completed.
Type in italics means that the task is in progress.
101 THINGS IN 1001 DAYS:
1. Finish editing the Honors College film for Jonathan the film I shot in Production II.
2. Raise my GPA to a 3.8.
At end of Fall 2006 semester: 3.626
At end of Spring 2007 semester: 3.719
At the end of Fall 2007: 3.750
At the end of Spring 2008: 3.742
At the end of Fall 2008: 3.761 (so far)
3. Fall in love with someone who loves me in return.
4. Get an internship at a small film production music supervision company.
5. Ride the Staten Island ferry.
6. Complete a good student short. One that I'd be more than willing to submit to festivals.
7. Turn in my community service sheets to Charlotte before she kills me.
8. Lose 40 65 pounds by revamping my diet and working out regularly.
9. Start a Relay For Life team.
10. Write an entry in Dinner With Your Family every day for two weeks.
11. Purchase a really incredible digital camera.
12. Accumulate a wardrobe that isn't embarrassing.
13. Establish a personal style.
14. Invest in a curling iron.
15. Learn how to walk in high heels.
16. Purchase at least 50 CDs.
17. Spend an afternoon at the Museum of the Moving Image.
18. Dabble in photography and subject my work to serious critique.
19. Sign up for a Kaplan course for my GREs.
20. Apply to as many graduate programs in the city as possible.
21. Graduate June 2009 at least magna cum laude.
22. Get a MacBook Pro with the best capabilities and film editing software.
23. Go on a road trip with Christy.
24. Go on a road trip with these people.
25. Learn how to sew using a sewing machine.
26. Visit Florida and spend time with Jillian, Lisa, Jessie, Justin, Mike, etc.
27. Take pictures in a photobooth.
28. See Devo in concert.
29. Attend the Pitchfork Music Festival.
30. Attend South by Southwest.
31. Write, film, and edit a feature-length film.
32. Have work exhibited at a film festival.
33. Purchase some sexy lingerie.
34. Renew my passport.
35. Open a savings account.
36. Initiate a conversation with an arbitrary cutie.
37. Be able to run a mile without stopping.
38. Get an internship with an independent music label that is music-related.
39. Get an internship at a magazine.
40. Read 15 banned books that I have not already read. (2 out of 15)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
41. Read 20 books that are not from the list of banned books. (8 out of 20)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas, Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury, Love Is A Mixtape by Rob Sheffield, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
42. Read the Bible -- Old Testament and New Testament.
43. Go to another Conan O'Brien taping.
44. Learn to drive on an actual street and going faster than 20 miles per hour.
45. Host a theme party.
46. Purchase a CD & cassette player that will allow me to make good ol' fashioned mix tapes!
47. Have at least 200 Polaroid pictures displayed on my wall. (84 out of 200)
48. Purchase alcohol on my own.
49. Go a week without swearing.
50. Become a certified lifeguard.
51. Send for and place "YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL" stickers throughout Manhattan.
52. Watch 100 movies I've never seen before. (104 out of 100)
Annie Hall, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Singin' in the Rain, An American in Paris, Shortbus, Midnight Cowboy, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Jules and Jim, Raging Bull, Shine, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Fargo, Planet B-Boy, Silent Hill, High Tension, Wolf Creek, Quinceañera, Ordinary People, Junebug, Goodfellas, The Hours, Knocked Up, Spiderman 3, Shrek 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Art School Confidential, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Everything Is Illuminated, Guess Who, Children of Men, Slither, The Prestige, Take the Lead, Little Shop of Horrors, Ocean's Thirteen, The Illusionist, Cube Zero, The 6th Day, Victor Victoria, Primal Fear, Throw Momma From the Train, Stranger Than Fiction, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, American Dreamz, Stay Alive, Audition, Edison Force, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, License to Wed, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Music and Lyrics, Rest Stop, Jaws, Casino Royale, Layer Cake, Pan's Labyrinth, The Virgin Spring, Hairspray, Marnie, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Thank You For Smoking, The Sea Inside, V for Vendetta, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Live Flesh, The Devil's Backbone, Cat People, American Gangster, Gone to Earth, Pretty in Pink, Whirlpool, The Philadelphia Story, Belle de Jour, Gone Baby Gone, The Ice Storm, Starter For 10, Running With Scissors, Half Nelson, Point Break, Waitress, Planet Terror, The Siege, The Battle of Algiers, Penelope, Deathproof, This Is England, 27 Dresses, Transformers, I Could Never Be Your Woman, Lucas, A Mighty Heart, The Devil's Advocate, Jungle Fever, Training Day, Coffy, Red Sorghum, Philadelphia, Silverlake Life: The View From Here, The Happening
53. Learn basic Italian.
54. Purchase a 1" pin & magnet maker and start a pin & magnet selling business.
55. Become pretty good at writing HTML.
56. Be Richard Simmons for Halloween.
57. Have a pastry at Magnolia Bakery.
58. Reread all of the Harry Potter books.
59. Try five new cocktails.
60. Try five things recommended to me by other people.
61. Help out with lighting/editing/music/casting/whatever on a film that isn't mine.
62. Purchase an iPod.
63. Spend a day at the Bronx Zoo.
64. Purchase a record player.
65. Purchase at least 25 records. (50 out of 25)
66. Get a radio show.
67. Get a pair of glasses that doesn't cause me to squint.
68. Kiss someone under the mistletoe.
69. Put $1 in a piggy bank each week from now until the end of the 1001 days. At the end of the 1001 days, spend the money on anything I want.
70. Attend a wedding. My own does not count.
71. Watch 10 films on AFI's list of 100 Greatest American Movies that I have not already seen. (10 out of 10)
Annie Hall, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Singin' in the Rain, An American in Paris, Midnight Cowboy, Raging Bull, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Fargo, The Philadelphia Story, Jaws
72. Go to a state fair with friends.
73. Purchase an inexpensive 35mm camera and start taking pictures for an album.
74. Submit a piece of writing for publication in a literary magazine, anthology, etc.
75. Learn how to screenprint T-shirts.
76. Get a "real job" upon graduation.
77. Crochet my own tam hat.
78. Bowl higher than a 100.
79. Get married. Honestly, I'm not expecting it to happen and I don't consider it a "goal" to get hitched by 2010, but I figure it should be on the list. Y'know, just in case.
80. Purchase an original work of art.
81. Take a Photoshop class/seminar.
82. Ride the ferris wheel at Coney Island.
83. Eat a meal at Gray's Papaya.
84. Have the green tea ice cream from BAMN!
85. Get a pedicure for no good reason.
86. Go back to Islands of Adventure.
87. Eat the most unusual thing on the menu of a seemingly innocuous restaurant.
88. Send a secret to PostSecret.
89. Purchase a domain name and start a website. A real one.
90. Get a brazilian wax. Something tells me that this one isn't a good idea. Knock on wood.
91. Bake (from scratch) and decorate a batch of cookies.
92. Make a naughty-shaped birthday cake for someone.
93. Try cuisine from five countries. (4 out of 5)
Vietnamese, Indian, Japanese, Ethiopian
94. Get into a graduate school.
95. Make sure my sister applies to as many culinary schools colleges as possible.
96. Watch all of the Academy Award Best Picture nominees before that year's show.
97. Start taking a multivitamin regularly.
98. Go apple picking in upstate New York again.
99. Complete some sort of great creative collaboration with a fellow artist. This collaboration must be unrelated to film.
100. Mail mini-care packages to each of my long-distance friends.
101. Make another list of 101 things to do on January 7th, 2010.