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Sep. 26th, 2008 @ 02:08 pm Today's to-do list
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Okay, my goals for the week sort of failed. A combination of fighting off sickness, stressing out over crises at work, and generally letting myself get high-strung over my accumulative responsibilities ... I'm not in great shape. I took a sick day/mental health day from work today, and I'm attempting to reset myself both physically and mentally.

So, with that in mind, I'm making a to-do list for today that should hopefully balance relaxation with getting crap done:

[x] sleep in
[x] eat breakfast
[x] grocery shopping
[x] eat lunch
[x] watch one episode of The Wire
[x] work on embroidery
[x] work on RP
[ ] work on email backlog
[x] clean bathroom sink + bonus cleaning windows!
[x] cook chicken soup for dinner

Throughout all this, I should also remember to drink lots of fluids, take vitamin C, and rest as necessary.
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Sep. 23rd, 2008 @ 02:31 pm Let's try this weekly goal thing again
Current Mood: aggravated (at work stuff)
Current Music: "March of Mephisto," Kamelot
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It's been awhile since I've made goals, but it seems like I'm in need of a structured list again ...

Weekly goals (work on one of these every day)
-RP for NTGC
-fic for NTGC
-embroider belt for Halloween costume

Tentative schedule:

Tuesday
[x] stop by bank for money stuff
[x] make online order for kitty supplies

Wednesday
[x] weekly goal: wrestled with embroidery

Thursday
[ ] weekly goal: wrestled with embroidery (with greater success)
[ ] weekly goal: worked on RP

Friday
[ ] gym
[ ] weekly goal:

Saturday
[ ] Friends of the Seattle Public Library book sale!
[ ] cook dinner?
[ ] weekly goal:

Sunday
[ ] attend NTGC session!
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Jun. 28th, 2008 @ 01:12 pm So very lazy
Current Mood: drained
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Blood donation yesterday + hot day today means I want to do nothing more than be a lump at home today. But! I need to get things done. So here's my (short enough to be manageable) to-do list to keep me from wasting the day.

[ ] load of laundry
[x] acquire dinner (whether that means actually cooking, or just buying something)
[x] submit apartment inquiries
[ ] character backstory

Tomorrow: Pride Parade!
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Jun. 25th, 2008 @ 09:02 pm Summer goals!
Current Mood: busy
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... Because now that the conference has passed, the deadline that has been breathing down my neckstructuring my life is gone. And there are other things that need to get done, but which I've been putting off because of NWSA. I need to write them down, so I neither forget them and slide into laziness, nor let them build into an exaggerated specter of obligations that make me stress out.

Goal: Get a new job DONE!
Time frame: The first due date is next week. After that, though, it's out of my control.
Steps:
[x] submit resume for 'promotion'

Goal: Character creation DONE!
Time frame: this week
Steps:
[x] review info from GM
[x] write backstory

Goal: Schedule health checkups
Time frame: by the end of July (tentatively)
Steps:
[ ] make dentist appointment
[ ] make optometrist appointment
[ ] make doctor appointment

Goal: Find an apartment DONE!
Time frame: by mid-August or so
Steps:
[x] check craigslist and Rent.com (other suggestions welcome)
[x] inquire about availability/viewing times
[x] make some visits
[ ] prep for moving?? make lists?? start packing??

Goal: Donation DONE!
Time frame: before I move
Steps:
[x] find places to donate (Lifelong AIDS Alliance for clothes and Friends of the Seattle Public Library for books)
[x] donate clothes
[x] donate books
[x] also make monthly(?) money donation schedule - trying for an annual goal, leaving the exact activity each month up in the air

Goal: Reading
Time frame: until/if I find something that works better
Steps:
finish one non-fiction book every two weeks(~ish)
     -Colonize This!, Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman (eds.)
     -The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
keep reading crunchy fiction to relax; make schedule if it feels necessary
     -Hammered, Elizabeth Bear
     -Y: The Last Man, Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra
     -Passage, Connie Willis
     -[lots of individual graphic novels]

Goal: Fun things I shouldn't let fall by the wayside
Time frame: as regularly as I do "necessary" things
Steps:
[x] NTGC email for GM
[x] at least one NTGC RP
[ ] at least one drawing
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Jun. 9th, 2008 @ 04:39 pm This week's to-do list
Current Mood: stressed
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Monday
[x] gym
[x] Black Sexual Politics ch. 2

Tuesday
[x] cook food for this week's dinner
[x] Black Sexual Politics ch. 3

Wednesday
[x] gym
[x] Black Sexual Politics ch. 4

Thursday
[ ] gym
[x] Black Sexual Politics ch. 5

Friday
[ ] NWSA meeting
[ ] Black Sexual Politics ch. 6

Work on every day until done
[ ] notes for NWSA meeting
[ ] character creation (note to self: this is your break-from-work fun project, NOT Warmakers fic)

Weekend and beyond to be organized later
[ ] pack for Cincinnati
[ ] finish Black Sexual Politics
[ ] final notes/outline for talk
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Jun. 8th, 2008 @ 01:44 pm Today's to-do list
Current Mood: lethargic
Current Music: "Edge of Paradise," Kamelot
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Note to self: Okay, self, you have had a nice and indulgent weekend, doing nothing more productive than writing fic. Then you had a fabulous time last night giving [info]coramegan a proper send-off, and a lazy morning this morning besides. You have a lot of things you ought to do, all of which you want to do (or at least have done), so it's time to get crackin'.

Practical things
[x] eat lunch
[x] grab a shower
[x] eat dinner
[x] cook food so you have lunches for work

Fun things
[x] email GM #1
[x] email GM #2
[ ] email GM #3
[ ] make notes on Warmakers fic ideas ONLY IF TIME PERMITS

NWSA things (which are somewhere between practical and fun)
[x] Black Sexual Politics introduction
[x] Black Sexual Politics ch.1
[x] work on travel arrangements
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May. 23rd, 2008 @ 11:50 am Sick day, sorta
Current Mood: trying not to become my icon
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Started feeling ill last night. Looks like I've finally succumbed to whatever has been making people around me sick. Took a sick day today to hopefully nip it in the bud. I'm confident I can; recently I've been able to avoid down-and-out sickness by taking a day to recuperate early on. And I WILL be well for Warmakers, dammit.

Today's last-day-before-game to-do list:

[x] eat lunch
[ ] keep consuming tea, oranges, vitamin C supplements
[x] take a nap only if necessary for recovery, not if I'm just feeling lazy (I didn't nap ... which I consider accomplishing this goal!)
[x] finish level 18 Khag
[x] level 19 Khag
[x] character sheet for Khag's mount
[x] print final version (no, really, for real this time) of Sae character sheets
[ ] last-minute plans for followers?? + crash course in Ranger spellcasting
[x] clean stove
[x] packing list for weekend
[x] pack what's on the list
[x] eat dinner
[x] get to [info]ratzeo's at a decent hour
[ ] if time permits: fanart?
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May. 19th, 2008 @ 11:18 am This week's goals: Excessively Warmakers Edition!
Current Mood: determined
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Warmakers is ending this weekend, and I am unabashedly shelving all my other goals for the duration of this week. 8D

To be completed by Saturday morning
[ ] level 18 Khag
[ ] level 19 Khag
[ ] character sheet for Khag's mount
[ ] 4-koma (at least the ones in progress ... perhaps more?)
[ ] one final (yeah right) fanart: catgirl!Sae
[ ] one final (yeah right) fic or RP?

Constantly-being-updated schedule
Monday
-gym
-grocery run for myself
-finish coloring 4-koma

Tuesday
-grocery run for Warmakers
-[info]ratzeo's for leveling

Wednesday
-gym

Thursday
-cook dinner
-finish character sheets

Friday
-gym

Shoved to the side; must return to these next week
-Aer'inbar character
-NWSA outline
-Patricia Hill Collins book (either Black Feminist Thought or Black Sexual Politics)
-check NWSA schedule and decide what events to attend
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May. 12th, 2008 @ 02:06 pm Monday means goals!
Current Mood: busy
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This week should be a little less busy and structured, in terms of my to-do list. I want to maintain my productivity, though, so I'm still laying out my goals.

Fun goals (work on one of these every day)
-write fic(s) for Warmakers episode 24
-draw at least one 4-koma
-make Sae's new character design (hopefully to result in some substantial drawing, though that may have to wait until next week)

Less-fun goals (also work on one of these every day)
-gym x 3
-revise resume
-read NWSA write-up
-write my own NWSA write-up
-grocery shopping for weekend events

Tentative schedule

Monday
[x] gym
[x] revise resume
[x] finish(?) another thousand words on fic #1

Tuesday
[x] gym
[x] cook dinner for the week
[x] level 21 character sheet for Sae
[x] finish fic #1

Wednesday
[x] read NWSA write-up
[x] sketch out (or more) the two 4-koma that popped into my brain

Thursday
[x] gym
[x] meet [info]ratzeo for dinner ♥

Friday
[x] grocery run
[x] ink 4-koma

Saturday
[x] NWSA meeting
[x] birthday party

Sunday
[x] U-District Street Fair
[x] level Sae to 23
[x] levelstart building Khag
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May. 12th, 2008 @ 11:29 am Happy Monday!
Current Mood: calm
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(I say that because I need to hear it. XD;;)

Here are the good things from the weekend that are keeping me going today:

1. Awesome Warmakers game yesterday! Admittedly, I am self-centered and excited that some shiny stuff happened to my character and she got to do cool things. But it was a fun adventure all around, with our GM letting us go to town on a tarrasque and then dangling plot teasers in our faces.

2. I have already started writing fic for the game - about 1000 words of tarrasque butt-kicking written in a burst last night. Part of my eagerness is because this is all part of the final milestone in Sae's character development and maturation. Part of it is just because, well, ZOMG tarrasque! 8D

3. [info]shadawyn's and my BPAL order arrived last week, and I got to pick up my part of the order on Sunday. Several of the frimps from the package were also to my liking, so I have quite a bit of shininess on the perfume front right now.

4. On Saturday, I went shopping with [info]kyonkun - didn't buy much, but it was fun. We also met up with [info]ratzeo for dinner (at Mandarin Chef, my favorite Ave restaurant).

5. Last week I completed every single one of my goals. I needed to rearrange my Saturday goals a bit in order to accomodate deadlines and my own lack of energy over the weekend (woo PMS), but I was quite productive in exactly the ways I'd hoped/planned for the weekdays. (Which reminds me, I need to make a new goals for this week's to-do list ...)
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May. 7th, 2008 @ 08:09 am 5 happy things for the day (week?)
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I keep composing these lists in my head, but then forgetting to post them. I've been feeling sort of breathless this week as I keep up with my goals, so things without a clear deadline of next week (or earlier) are temporarily on the back burner.

But it's always good to ruminate on why I'm happy.

1. Ran into [info]coramegan on the bus again this morning and (surprise, surprise) talked about Warmakers again. This Sunday is our second to last session - after that will be a full-weekend marathon of the last two adventures. O_O Admittedly, this is sort of a sad thing - but in a good way. We've had the full run of the "television season" (campaign) and it's time to reach the well-deserved epic ending.

2. Tonight I'll be going with some co-workers to a university banquet. :D Food, wine, and hearing about student achievements - all in all, a very pleasant way to spend my evening. Also, it's located in a campus building that I rarely get to anymore, just in time for me to see an anti-violence exhibit put on by one of my former professor's students.

3. On Friday I'm getting a massage. XD Every once in a while we have a masseuse come into our office, so when I heard about it this time I decided to splurge on a half-hour massage. And boy, do my shoulders need it.

4. My tea stash and earring collection, while both beloved, are also huge, and threaten to overflow the space allotted to them. I'm paring them down by sorting out the things that are perfectly good, but which I never use, and passing them along to folks who will appreciate them more than I do. This is not only good for me, but also for the people who will be getting my money now that I have more space. :P

5. I have thus far managed to meet all of my goals this week, even including the extra free-floating goals. I know it's only Wednesday, but I feel pleased and energized by the fact that I haven't missed anything so far. I have a pretty demanding set of goals this week (well, for me - probably other people could do all this one-handed!) and don't plan on keeping up this accelerated pace for long. But it's a temporary pace set for the purpose of next weekend's NWSA meeting (and then, one month after that, the conference itself!). Also, this weekend, I shall take a well-earned rest.
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May. 5th, 2008 @ 04:08 pm Haven't done one of these in a while ...
Current Mood: grumpy
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Goal list for this week!

Daily to-do list

Monday
[x] gym
[x] The Cult of True Victimhood ch. 2
[x] pencil sketch for one 4-koma

Tuesday
[x] grocery store
[x] make curry
[x] The Cult of True Victimhood ch. 3
[x] couple hundred words in Warmakers fic (it's actually starting to look like a story now ...)

Wednesday
[x] banquet (whee!)
[x] The Cult of True Victimhood ch. 4
[x]no other goals this day because the banquet will run late inked one 4-koma ha ha!

Thursday
[x] gym
[x] The Cult of True Victimhood ch. 5
[x] colored 4-koma

Friday
[x] gym
[x] The Cult of True Victimhood ch. 6 and Epilogue
[x] couple hundred words of fic

Saturday
[x] shopping with [info]kyonkun
[x] level Sae
[x] finish fic

Free-floating goals
(i.e., do at least one of these every day, but I'm not dictating which one)
-write fic (at least 100 words)
-draw 4-koma (entirety of pencil sketching, inking, or coloring for 1 strip)
-draw non-stupid fanart XD (at least 30 minutes, however much progress that results in)
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Apr. 21st, 2008 @ 08:43 pm Happy things and goals!
Current Mood: mellow
Current Music: "Heavy," Holly Brook
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1. My coffee maker arrived on Friday, and I've been wanting to try it out. [info]shadawyn and I have a date to go to Pike Place Market on Saturday, where I will raid Market Spice (an awesome tea/coffee/spice shop). So I couldn't really justify buying anything before that, just for the sake of my own impatience.

However! Today at work, a salesman came by, and, in thanks for my help (which was really quite minimal), gave me a $5 Starbucks gift card. So, I thought, why not? And off I went after work, to buy a bag of coffee beans.

... Except, through cashier error and my own obliviousness, the gift card was not counted toward my purchase, so I ended up paying the full price. :P Ah well. I did get a free drink out of it, because apparently that's what Starbucks does when you buy coffee beans. And, uh, I still have a gift card. XD;;

2. I have been giggling like a giddy child over my new BPAL imps since I picked them up on Saturday. :D And I also made a new order with [info]shadawyn (a.k.a. my enabler). XD

3. [info]ratzeo ran an awesome adventure on Sunday ... which was part one of two, so now I reeeeaaally want to play the other half.

4. [info]kyonkun gave me a link to a Japanese image gallery of hairstyles (so I can see what Asian hair looks like), and I think I've decided what I want for my new haircut: something like these. (Okay, really and truly I would want one of these, but those would definitely take more effort than I'd want to put in.)

5. As I mentioned earlier, on Friday, we had a brief planning meeting for the NWSA conference. It really helped me focus and get back on task, after having floundered about for the past several weeks. I hunted down books to buff up my theoretical knowledge - I'm currently reading this and have ordered this and this.

Which brings me to my goals for the week ... which are basically to finish The Macho Paradox and set a pace to finish all three books by the time we have our next major meeting in mid-May. This goal takes priority over (though hopefully will not exclude) all other ongoing goals.

Can I do it? Honestly, I know there's the risk that I will fall behind here. The daily amount of reading I will need to do will be somewhat like my reading load in college - but now I don't have deadlines and grades acting as enforcers of my discipline. Learning to keep myself on track will be hard. On the other hand, this is a skill I need to learn anyway, now that I'm out of school.
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Apr. 7th, 2008 @ 11:55 am (no subject)
Current Mood: optimistic
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Goals for the week
[x] gym x 3
[x] make dinner for the week
[ ] character creation
[ ] find one book, or multiple articles, for NWSA research
[x] finish current Warmakers fic - possibly split into two different fics (but finish both if that's the case)
[ ] ink current pencil sketch
[ ] color current inked drawing
[ ] kick emo-ness in the butt

( Progress )
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Apr. 1st, 2008 @ 09:09 am This week's to-do list
Current Mood: tired
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a.k.a. Come on, Dora, don't give up now

By Saturday
[x] gym x 3
[x] grocery store
[x] make dinner for the week
[x] taxes
[ ] NWSA membership
[x] get camera working for pictures in Quad

Every day
-either write at least 200 words, OR progress a drawing to next stage (i.e. pencil to inks, inks to color)
-limit brain-dead time (TV, DS, etc.) to one hour

( Progress )
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Mar. 23rd, 2008 @ 01:43 pm Today's to-do list
Current Mood: determined
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Subject to change with scheduling necessity.

[x] spend lazy morning sleeping in and web-surfing
[x] lunch
[x] grocery run at Trader Joe's
[x] level Nexus to 8th
[x] get some drawing in - sort of, though I really need to start finishing and coloring sketches instead of fussing with them until I'm tired of looking at them and moving on to something else >_>
[ ] something proactive for NWSA, maybe hopefully*
[x] have a [info]laylah over!

*This is very reminiscent of my school days, when I would sit on a paper assignment for weeks, unable to decide how to either write it or prepare for it, until the deadline loomed in my face and I would write the entire thing in a marathon. I'm planning to avoid that this time, because a) a conference isn't as amenable to procrastination as a paper, and b) there are other people involved, and therefore counting on me. But there is definitely the same feeling of indecisiveness and uncertainty.
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Mar. 9th, 2008 @ 01:00 pm Today's to-do list
Current Mood: determined
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Okay, so I dropped the ball this past week on fulfilling my goals. Setbacks happen, and I need to move on.

For now, I'm starting small. Here's what the next, oh, ten hours of my day will be like (curse you, Daylight Saving Time!). This list includes both things that I need to do, and things I want (and therefore need, in my own way) to do.

Level Sae

This will not only be fun, but will hopefully get me back into the mindset of thinking, "Okay, how did Sae change after last week's adventure?" so I can get to thinking about the fics I want to write before the next game.

One post for NWSA community

Really, really need to do this.

Get calendar art to inking stage

From there, inking and coloring are relatively easy. They still take time, but it's not as hard to motivate myself to do them as it is to draw something on a blank piece of paper.

Dinner reservation at 7:30

FYI for anyone in the Seattle area, Dine Around Seattle is going on, so you can get a fancy full-course meal at certain Seattle restaurants for $30 per person.
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Mar. 3rd, 2008 @ 09:29 pm Goals for the week
Current Mood: sleepy
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This week's set of goals is, like, 90% about Warmakers.

I'm okay with that. 8D

These are subject to change as I decide what my creative projects are going to be, and also which ones I want to do them this week as opposed to next.

Upcoming deadlines
-Wednesday, March 12: NWSA planning mini-meeting
-Friday, March 14: calendar due date
-Sunday, March 16: next Warmakers adventure

Practical stuff
-gym x3

Writing
-[placeholder as I figure out exactly what fics I'm going to write]
-surprise addition of: RP with [info]ratzeo (I ♥ my boy)

Drawing
-get calendar sketch to inking stage
-start drawing 4-koma instead of just thinking they'd be a cool idea

NWSA stuff
-at least one article write-up

( Here's where I make myself accountable )
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Feb. 25th, 2008 @ 12:47 pm Goals for the week
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I'm at the point where the idea of making goals for myself feels encouraging rather than draining. YES.

I've been moving toward this point for a while, but what really cinched it was this past weekend, during which I: met with my NWSA group for our first official planning session (which was also the first time I'd seen any of these fabulous women in many months), went downtown with [info]kyonkun, met up with [info]mahokiwi and [info]laylah at [info]ratzeo and [info]zinjadu's apartment (also the first time seeing them in a while, though luckily not months), and played my first session of [info]casaval's Harry Potter game.

The NWSA meeting was crucial for lighting a fire under my ass and getting me back to work. These are some of the most amazing, intelligent, powerful women I know, so being in a room with them, and feeling their energy and support, went a long way towards making me feel capable of taking on this conference. And, from there, taking on anti-oppression work in general. (I've started, for better or for worse, thinking about grad school again ...)

The rest of the weekend was more about making me happy enough to keep going with this productivity, rather than being productive in and of itself, but that is also important. :D

( And now, my goals )

ETA: ( Current progress )
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Feb. 4th, 2008 @ 07:35 pm Time to take stock
Current Mood: determined
Current Music: "Turn Off the Light," Nelly Furtado
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( I think I'm in a rut. )
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