bookish in 2007

2007 was 99% worth living.

In 2005, bookish did 129 things, went 4 places, met 14 people, and consumed 0 products.

Years: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Resolve to stay off 43Things, Gmail, Yahoo and all other distracting sites until and unless all of my recommendation requests are OUT. — completed 1 day later
  2. go see Children of Men! — completed 12 days later
  3. Have a cocktail at WW's virtual cocktail party - dress code 'glamorous' - Jan 29th to Feb 2nd — completed 4 days later
  4. Wish yrush a Very Happy Birthday on Feb. 1!! — completed 5 days later
  5. Wish the fabulous Heaveemetal the most rockin' birthday ever on February 3rd!!! — completed 5 days later
  6. buy a combination lock to use at gym locker — completed 10 days later
  7. Throw the kind and lovely Myself a birthday bash on February 3rd!!! — completed 5 days later
  8. Celebrate the romantically-inclined RamblingRose's birthday on February 2nd in the most terrific way possible!!! — completed 5 days later
  9. Throw Bella a beautful birthday party on Feb. 6th — completed 6 days later
  10. take a class — completed 16 days later
  11. Throw SaraMarie a wonderful birthday party on Feb. 11th! — completed 21 days later
  12. find a bag that I will use as gym bag — completed 4 months later
  13. Live in a place where I feel comfortable making dinner and eating it — completed 7 months later
  14. Use New York — completed about 1 year later
  15. Find new (to me) music I love — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. fund a microloan through kiva.org — Worth doing!
  2. move — Not worth doing
  3. change my "avatar" to something i want to keep for a while — Worth doing!
  4. wish a ridiculously amusing birthday to Walter Bedenbacker (Jan. 10)! — Worth doing!
  5. wish AnnieDee a Happy Birthday 1-12! — Worth doing!
  6. Bring lunch from home or make it at work — Worth doing!
  7. finish Vikram Seth's "A Suitable Boy" — Worth doing!
  8. Wish NYC a very happy birthday on Jan 14 — Worth doing!
  9. do tons of laundry — Worth doing!
  10. Throw SallyKitt a memorable birthday party on January 16th!!! — Worth doing!
  11. Wish Tiddilywinks a magnificent navigational birthday on January 18th — Worth doing!
  12. Wish the sweet, kind, loving, clever, ambitious, witty, book-loving, bekilted Dwlt a Very HAPPY BIRTHDAY on 18 Jan! — Worth doing!
  13. take a moment today to honor Dr. King and everyone who worked with him to change the world — Worth doing!
  14. wish bananapancakes a HAPPY BIRTHDAY on January 23rd! — Worth doing!
  15. Wish Umeboshibaby a very awesome, healthy and sugar free birthday on January 23rd — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. 826 Valencia
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Anais Grin

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Wish the wonderful, caring, beautiful, intelligent, volunteering, loving, generous Des a Very HAPPY BIRTHDAY on 25 Feb! (or whenever we get to actually celebrate it :-( ) — completed 24 days later
  2. feel better — completed 3 months later
  3. apply to Q — completed 3 months later
  4. NOT check my email and/or make unnecessary phonecalls until I have applied to at least three positions. TODAY.
  5. remember that it is all temporary — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Resolve to stay off 43Things, Gmail, Yahoo and all other distracting sites until and unless all of my recommendation requests are OUT. — Worth doing!
  2. go see Children of Men! — Worth doing!
  3. Have a cocktail at WW's virtual cocktail party - dress code 'glamorous' - Jan 29th to Feb 2nd — Worth doing!
  4. Wish yrush a Very Happy Birthday on Feb. 1!! — Worth doing!
  5. Wish the fabulous Heaveemetal the most rockin' birthday ever on February 3rd!!! — Worth doing!
  6. buy a combination lock to use at gym locker — Worth doing!
  7. Throw the kind and lovely Myself a birthday bash on February 3rd!!! — Worth doing!
  8. Celebrate the romantically-inclined RamblingRose's birthday on February 2nd in the most terrific way possible!!!
  9. Throw Bella a beautful birthday party on Feb. 6th — Worth doing!
  10. take a class — Worth doing!
  11. ignore the commercialised coupledom of Valentine's Day and spend it celebrating singleness and self-sufficiency — Worth doing!
  12. Throw SaraMarie a wonderful birthday party on Feb. 11th! — Worth doing!
  13. Wish LOB a very happy birthday on Feb. 16th — Worth doing!
  14. move out of this godforsaken apt to a livable place — Worth doing!
  15. watch the sunrise and sunset
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Actively seek employment at U penn
  2. stay fresh and positive and optimistic in the face of failure after failure after failure
  3. Learn the ins and outs of Podcasting for Libraries
  4. Find 10 people in 15 cities who are passionate about their city and want to help with a new project for 43 Places
  5. learn about 43 new places by finding out " What you like and find fascinating about your place?"
  6. lose an inch around the waist
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Samovar

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Wish GypsieWriter A Great First Day Of The Rest Of Her Life Birthday March 31st — completed about 1 month later
  2. Underpromise and Overdeliver
  3. share poems that spark — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Wish the wonderful, caring, beautiful, intelligent, volunteering, loving, generous Des a Very HAPPY BIRTHDAY on 25 Feb! (or whenever we get to actually celebrate it :-( ) — Worth doing!
  2. Get more people to subscribe to and enjoy my podcast (but only if they really want to...) — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Millennium Restaurant — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. SWAZ — met 3 months later
  2. hollyhollyoxenfree — met 10 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. JudithKD
  2. tlong
  3. Mary Hawkins

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Sponsor SEGSID in her walk-a-thon to raise money for Crohn's disease and Colitis
  2. Do the Couch to 5k running plan
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. find joy in music again — Worth doing!
  2. watch Shyam Benegal films, perhaps even all of them — Worth doing!
  3. find 10 people in San Francisco who are passionate about it and want to help with a new project for 43 Places — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. stretch daily
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. ello
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Todd Schoonover
  2. RuthG

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. survive the friggin' heat — completed 18 days later
  2. Organize a Bay Area meet-up — completed 4 months later
  3. Save money — completed 7 months later
  4. renew my passport — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Wish WinstonWolfe a Just-Chillin' Birthday May 3rd — Worth doing!
  2. Wish Deni H a Wonderfully Fun 30th Birthday on May 10th! — Worth doing!
  3. Go to a chocolate factory — Worth doing!
  4. Wish GypsieWriter A Great First Day Of The Rest Of Her Life Birthday March 31st — Worth doing!
  5. Wish Chuq a Smoke-Free Birthday May 15th — Worth doing!
  6. feel better — Worth doing!
  7. apply to Q — Worth doing!
  8. List 100 things I can do for free (or for very little money) — Worth doing!
  9. start getting 43 things comment notifications again — Worth doing!
  10. Wish ProfuseMoose a Free Expression Birthday May 27th — Worth doing!
  11. Wish HobokenMartha a Victorious Birthday May 29th — Worth doing!
  12. write a book — Worth doing!
  13. move, again — Worth doing!
  14. get paid to travel — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. help my parents and not get discouraged by their actions
  2. Practice random acts of kindness
  3. find all the desis on this site, just for fun!
  4. get up when my alarm clock goes off
  5. Set up my new studio apartment!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Candle Cafe — visited 3 months later

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. buy a bed — completed about 1 month later
  2. Wish Librarian an extremely exTREMELY belated happy birthday — completed 7 days later
  3. Wish RuthG a Poem-Inspired Birthday July 4th — completed 7 days later
  4. Find my digital camera! — completed about 1 month later
  5. Write a note to my younger self about something I know now that I didn't know then — completed 2 months later
  6. paint my room
  7. Get my BMI down to 24.9 — completed 6 months later
  8. settle in
  9. identify 100 words that make me happy
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Touch the Life of a Stranger in Need — Worth doing!
  2. find a bag that I will use as gym bag — Worth doing!
  3. Wish Trauma_Junkie a Year-Of-Me Birthday June 13 — Worth doing!
  4. survive the friggin' heat — Worth doing!
  5. survive the UFC (Utter Frozen Coldness) with spirits intact — Worth doing!
  6. wish Aaty happy birthday! — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. NOT check my email and/or make unnecessary phonecalls until I have applied to at least three positions. TODAY.
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. United Kingdom — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. HobokenMartha

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. file my taxes — completed 29 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. buy a bed — Worth doing!
  2. Host a 43people meet up in New York City on March 24, 2007 — Worth doing!
  3. Wish Librarian an extremely exTREMELY belated happy birthday — Worth doing!
  4. Wish RuthG a Poem-Inspired Birthday July 4th — Worth doing!
  5. Clean out all the boxes stored in V and R's crawlspace — Worth doing!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Adar — met 2 months later
  2. catattack — met 2 months later
  3. apteryx — met 2 months later
  4. A Girl in the Curl — met 2 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Daniel Spils
  2. SWAZ

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Periodically reflect on at least 5 things for which I'm grateful — completed 5 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Find my digital camera!
  2. file my taxes — Worth doing!
  3. become kinder. — Worth doing!
  4. Wish the fantabulous ThinkMelissaThink a very Happy Birthday on December 10th — Worth doing!
  5. clean, clean, clean! — Worth doing!
  6. Get a library card ~ and get it validated — Worth doing!
  7. Wish Agent99 a Red Balloon Birthday August 17th — Worth doing!
  8. Wish PurpleFiberMom a Focused and Healthy Birthday August 18th — Worth doing!
  9. stop beating myself up for small failures — Worth doing!
  10. Return library books in a timely fashion — Worth doing!
  11. Write a note to my younger self about something I know now that I didn't know then
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Get my Job Search into HIGH Gear!!!!!!!! and ask LOTS of Questions along the WAY....

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Organize an Atlanta area 43 meetup around Thanksgiving... — completed about 1 month later
  2. record my dreams — completed 3 months later
  3. Figure out why my thumb has been numb for a Long time now and do something to change it back to normal — completed 3 months later
  4. be more seasonal — completed 5 months later
  5. team all the 43T librarians — completed 5 months later
  6. go back to Tea and stop cheating on Tea with Coffee, because, really, Tea is just better for me, and Coffee and me, well, we'll just have to be friends — completed 9 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Live in a place where I feel comfortable making dinner and eating it — Worth doing!
  2. Wish Sitio an Impeccable Birthday Sept. 5th — Worth doing!
  3. wish Todd Schoonover a happy healthy and full of love birthday on September 15th — Worth doing!
  4. wish Daniel Spils a happy, happy birthday Sept 16! — Worth doing!
  5. Wish Calypte a Happy Birthday (9/17) — Worth doing!
  6. Wish Cynonymous an Activist Birthday September 15th — Worth doing!
  7. wish Bibliomane a happy new decade on September 20 — Worth doing!
  8. Wish Ira a musically-inclined happy birthday on September 23rd, and while I'm at it, wish him good luck with finding a job so he can come back to 43Things! — Worth doing!
  9. go home already — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Sponsor SEGSID in her walk-a-thon to raise money for Crohn's disease and Colitis
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Candle Cafe — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Adar
  2. catattack
  3. apteryx
  4. A Girl in the Curl
  5. Segsy

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. complete my technology purchase assignment — completed 15 days later
  2. Figure out how to download Open Office — completed 15 days later
  3. Wish Bookish "happy birthday" on Oct 31, 2007 and wish,wish,wish her birthday hex away (meanwhile) — completed 10 days later
  4. Wish Bookish a completely Halloween-free birthday on October 31st. No ghost, goblins or vamps allowed! — completed 11 days later
  5. date SMARTER — completed about 1 month later
  6. Spend more time working on my goals and less time on cheering
  7. embrace my inner Cookie Monster... and then maybe he'll (she'll?) calm down... — completed 2 months later
  8. Study. Hard. for my quarterterm on Tuesday. — completed 4 months later
  9. Go apple-picking.
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. organize a 43Things meetup in NYC (or nearby) — Worth doing!
  2. Find more people who enjoy the inane and celebrate the nonsensical — Worth doing!
  3. Coin new words — Worth doing!
  4. learn life lessons from the most unusual places — Worth doing!
  5. find organic foods in New Jersey (and stop missing San Francisco so much) — Worth doing!
  6. go to sleep on the bed and not on the couch with the TV blaring and also don't want to forget to brush teeth and floss — Worth doing!
  7. learn to cook indian food — Worth doing!
  8. get cheered in the future — Worth doing!
  9. Organize a Bay Area meet-up — Worth doing!
  10. buy comfortable shoes — Worth doing!
  11. Finish Portfolio 1 — Worth doing!
  12. Make a job decision — Worth doing!
  13. tell people about free OLDO access! — Worth doing!
  14. Cheerbomb Lob October 22, 2007 — Worth doing!
  15. Thank Todd for the supercheer! — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. be in love (and be loved in return) every day for the rest of my life
  2. teach myself html, dreamweaver, and other useful programs
  3. paint my room
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Atlanta
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
  1. Middle-earth
  2. Australia

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. complete the listserv assignment in a timely way — completed 24 days later
  2. Wish Maggie the Cat a *where it's at" birthday on November 19th! — completed about 1 month later
  3. feel calm — completed about 1 month later
  4. Find a balance between the things I want to do and the things I need to do
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Wish La Tordue and the little girl in the corner a wonderful birthday on November 4th complete with Mimi, champagne, liquorish and the Gentleman Animus on her red couch. — Worth doing!
  2. complete my technology purchase assignment
  3. Figure out how to download Open Office
  4. join a food co-op
  5. Wish Bookish "happy birthday" on Oct 31, 2007 and wish,wish,wish her birthday hex away (meanwhile)
  6. Wish Bookish a completely Halloween-free birthday on October 31st. No ghost, goblins or vamps allowed!
  7. Wish Segsy a Colitis Free Birthday November 2nd — Worth doing!
  8. Finish my annotated bibliography.
  9. Organize an Atlanta area 43 meetup around Thanksgiving... — Worth doing!
  10. wish the loveliest, most brilliant online and real world friend one could hope to have, JudithKD a Happy Birthday Nov. 25th, 2007 — Worth doing!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. SaraSA — met 2 months later

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. celebrate Silvie's birthday on December 31st with due pomp and circumstance (wearing bonnets) — completed 6 days later
  2. Watch the Golden Compass in the cinema
  3. Write the darn research paper. — completed 3 months later
  4. Make 2008 my best year yet
  5. pick one small area of my house... any area... and keep it immaculate for a week... just a week... just one tiny area... is that so hard?
  6. Thank my 43t Gurus
  7. reclaim equilibrium
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. complete the listserv assignment in a timely way — Worth doing!
  2. date SMARTER — Worth doing!
  3. Complete Labs 13 and 14 before Friday. — Worth doing!
  4. celebrate Zanna's birthday on 8th December with another amazing virtual breakfast martini party (glass-smashing optional)! — Worth doing!
  5. Make a Moroccan-style vegetable tagine (but without the tagine) — Worth doing!
  6. Have my website assignemnt close to finished by next Tuesday. — Worth doing!
  7. Finish my final final Website Assignment — Worth doing!
  8. Find a website that is a classic example of "good website design" — Worth doing!
  9. Wish MaryHawkins a Simplified Birthday December 18th — Worth doing!
  10. Stop assuming that Bibliomane's Fairies are gonna come over to work on my assignments!
  11. be warm in my own apartment — Worth doing!
  12. go watch Atonement — Worth doing!
  13. Wish Maggie the Cat a *where it's at" birthday on November 19th! — Worth doing!
  14. get better at making decisions — Worth doing!
  15. Get everyone to celebrate the 43rd day of the year (Feb 12th) by doing something TOTALLY fun and out of character — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Work in a Bookstore? Maybe? I have some questions about this...

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