Swiping this from
Eleanor's Trousers. My 1001st day, May 5, 2011, ends up being around when I'd defend my Masters thesis and take my comps. It's both a long and a short amount of time. It seems like forever away, and yet crazy to think that by that time I should be 3/4 done with my school part of my doctorate (just a few courses and my dissertation for my 4th year, and pre-doctoral internship the 5th, barring any re-adjustment of schedule due to baby shenanegians).
I'm totally nervous about starting school, and afraid that it is going to take over my life. Scratch that, I'm afraid I'm going to
let it take over my life. Hopefully periodically checking back at the list will remind me that I have other interests besides grad school and IRB's.
Grad school type things
1) Successfully defend my MA, or be on the way.
2) Have a job prospect on the horizon
3) Find another way of bringing in funds for my last year of classes, if they can’t get additional funding for my fellowship program
4) Publish a paper based on my MA work
5) Present at least once at a national conference
6)
DONE!Have a clear idea of what I want to do for my dissertation
7)
DONE!Have strong ideas of what I want to do for my internship
8) Have one meaningful and career-appropriate mentorship relationship in health psych
9) Figure out how to handle the heavy workload of school without going bonkers
10)
DONE!Become involved in my program, ideal by joining the grad student council 11)
DONE!Become involved in the larger east coast psych community, by joining associations, and attending events12)
SOON! We're getting an Exner class, and I'm learning the Logical Rorsach right now! Learn rorsach
13) Take the summer workshop in psychotherapy
14)
DONE! I'm going to be doing awesome psychosocial oncology individual and group work as weel as some research and mebbe some program development at a major hospital! Get kick-ass externships
15)
DONE!Make at least 1 good friend at schoolPersonal life stuff
16) Be on my way to having Boots (nickname for our eventual baby)
17)
DONE!Get married to my handsome sweetie18) Own an apartment or have a better idea of when we can do that
Travel and new places
19) Do a long west coast roadtrip
20) Attend tales of the cocktail
21) Do a southern roadtrip, including Twiity City and Dollywood
22) Go to Paris with my sweetie
23) Go on a group-friend trip, perhaps to Ireland or the House on the Rock.
24) Go the the House on the Rock during Christmastime
25) Go to Mideval Times
26) Go to the Ninja resturant
27) Go to Japan with my sweetie
28) Go to China with my sweetie
29) Go to Croatia with my sweetie
30) Explore northern Wis. And the UP
31) Learn how to drive
32) Learn how to ride a bike
33) Explore long island beaches more
more
34) Be able to cook really good Cantonese food from memory
35) Become as good as any fancy cocktail bar bartender (from memory)
36) Act in a play or performance
37) Buy my mom a stone bench for her grave, and have Jo Anne’s name engraved in it too
38) Keeping in touch with my uncle and his family.
39) Develop some routine of physical moving around, be it the gym or whatever
40) Explore northern Manhattan with my sweetie
41) Explore Staten Island with my sweetie
42) Do one of those canoe in the Gowanus or Hudson thingys
43) Take another glass or ceramics class
44) Take a class at the center for book arts
45) Try a torah study class or lecture
46) Find out if I can get free Yiddish classes
47) Go to the ephemera fair with my sweetie
48) Go to the alternative commix festival with my sweetie
49) Attend a Ren. Festival with my sweetie (because I am a nerd like no other, well, except all the other folks attending Re. fest or comicon or…)
50) Be able to acquit myself passibly at Dance dance Revolution
51) Get my vintage shoes repaired
52) Find a good tailor/drycleaner that specialized in vintage clothing
53) Make Purns those embroidered gloves
54) Post more to my other blog, wunderbar
Wedding
55)
DONE!Find a venue for out wedding56) Make invitiations for said wedding
57)
DONE!Website – ditto58)
DONE!Figure out self-catering option/potluck for the wedding59)
DONE!Have karoke at our wedding60)
DONE!Get the sweetie a smashing suit for the wedding
61)
DONE!Make a wedding ipod playlist
62)
DONE!Get a sweet dress for not much money
63)
DONE!Find or design an affordable wedding ring64)
DONE!--about 3k!Do the whole thing for under 5k no doubt, and ideally under 2k.
65) Go on a honeymoon.
self + food + friends
66) Figure out some way to feel better about myself physically, so I don’t feel all frumpish.
67)
DONE!Have steady health insurance68) Improve my organizational skills (and thus be less messy)
69) Get in the habit of having dinner parties
70) Cook a turducken
71) Make an entirely raw, vegan multicourse dinner
72) Host a Chinese New Year dinner banquet
73) Host one historical dinner party a year, where I cook everything from a certain time period, like Victorian England, Italian Renissance, etc…
74) Make my own pickles. I love pickles
75) Make more homemade bitters – get quite good at it
76) Learn how to use my sewing machine
77) Finish putting together that apartment
78) Finish reading everything Wodehouse had written
Writing
79) Write a historical romance novel and submit it for pub
80) Finish the romance Annapurna and I are writing
81) Gather together all of my mom’s receipes in book form
Misc.
82)
DONE!Reduce the amount of meat and animal products I consume
83)
DONE!Find a haircut I like, or accept that it will always change
84) Get a head to toe skin cancer check
85) Get my teef all cleaned and fixed
86)
DONE!Get into therapy (although this, like the above, does somewhat rest on #34, having steady health insurance)
87) Learn how to make my own cheese
88) Bake that no-knead bread from the NYT
89) Go to Ellis Island
90) Go the the Rainbow Room
91) Go to Taven on the Green
92) The River Café
93) The top of the Empire State Building
94) Find a new author I am crazy about
95) Finish reading everything by Angela Carter
96) Thomas Mann
97) Tanizaki
98) Learn spanish, at least a basic amount
99) Get my Chris Ware prints framed and up on the walls
Soon
100) Be able to sing “This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us” on karoke
101) Learn how to dance (like ballroom or swing), and do so with my sweetie
