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Projects!
I want to know what you're working on! Please tell this thread what sorts of projects you've got going (or are thinking of starting). Here are some of mine.
Oh god. Just tried to list mine and basically my list contained just this item: I am knitting a cowl.
That's not true, but it's also not true that my current projects are really creative or all that interesting. I am getting sucked into the day-job/home-ownership trap! Please tell me your projects so I will feel inspired to once again live an interesting, and productive life!
Oh god. Just tried to list mine and basically my list contained just this item: I am knitting a cowl.
That's not true, but it's also not true that my current projects are really creative or all that interesting. I am getting sucked into the day-job/home-ownership trap! Please tell me your projects so I will feel inspired to once again live an interesting, and productive life!
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No joke.
Today I met a Republican candidate for the Senate for lunch.
Also, no joke.
Are these projects or is this real life?
• bronze casting
• took a cool ceramics class at PNCA called "multiples"
♫ learning to play Ravel's pavane pour une infante defunte
• practicing handstand push-ups
• glacially learning to make a website
• shibori silk scarf dyeing
• starting oil painting lessons (portraits!)
You'll find some inspiration! Not drinking on weeknights helps me be productive, though I fail at that goal often.
- designing/putting out Jordan Dykstra's new record as co-release with Marriage
- being KMikeyM for the Nike SB app (need to do more tricks!)
- want to skate more in general
- various websites
Ok, I'm also working on:
-co-creating a mental health/goal setting website
-human-centered design training through IDEO/acumen (who wants to be on my design team?) - actually, this hasn't started yet. Soon.
-figuring out how to kill mold/re-caulk my shower + other boring home stuff
-analyzing minds (private practice - ongoing project, but what a project it is!)
-taking a couple of coursera classes (I guess this isn't really a project?) - statistics/public health
There are SO MANY THINGS in the "want to start soon" category:
-a small product I want to design/produce (also mental health related)
-LEARN THE INTERNET
-plan my backpacking trip to Corsica (anyone want to come?)
-draw plants
-convert garage to studio
-learn typography
-make aforementioned small product in clay, in addition to wood
-build a greenhouse
-2014 GARDEN
-Buy another house/fix it up (not gonna happen "soon")
Ooh, but the month of departure is September. Does that make it impossible for you because of school schedule?
- Building a prototype for a "starter" modular synth in Euro and 5u.
- Building a ton of other electronics...
- Working on websites and such.
- Thinking about how to play some of my bloops and bleeps in a public scenario.
I'm mostly doing the homeowner/job stuff, but had fun with my GTKYT event last night. I really need to get my "studio" room set back up so I can at least have fun noodling on my expensive toys. Also need to sell some of those toys because it would be better to have a smaller set of them.
Yeah, all of my projects will be house based for the forseeable future until it feels like a real place where a real person might live.
Still writing thank you notes for wedding presents because hugh had the wrong idea about when you were supposed to get that done by.
Lots of small home improvement things, new bathroom fan so the mirrors don't fog up, that sort of thing.
Finishing my adorno-themed One Direction parody, which has been upgraded from a joke to an actual project.
Guesses:
worry stone
sex toy
that's all I got.
Mental health product is so cheesy! I don't even want to tell you. But I will. It's "feeling words." Yeah, yeah, laugh all you want. But children and adolescents (and adults!) can have a really hard time recognizing what is going on internally and then they combust in unhealthy ways, so one of my jobs with the adolescents I see is to help them understand what they're feeling so they can deal with it. And it's easier for a lot of them to do that when they've got a list to choose from. But what if instead of a list it was this beautiful little box set of wood-or-ceramic pieces, each inscribed with a feeling, so they could lay them all out and look at them and figure out which ones come close to describing their experience.
And then maybe there's just a color set, too, so they can choose colors to match their experience.
So maybe they can describe the time when they got upset (/before engaging in an unhealthy behavior) as feeling "dark gray/blue" and "sloshy" and "uncomfortable" and "disappointed" and "lumpy." That would help me so much more than hearing "I was just frustrated" or "I was mad" which is what most kids tell me with little elaboration.
Anyway - there it is.
- running some races
- making lots of websites
- fixing my leg injury (dr. appointment next week)
- re-starting my gym membership
- packing up house and selling furniture (big announcement coming soon!)
- sending out book proposal
- listening to popular music
- re-start my nightmare failure cycle of trying to bake bread
- piano lessons
ugh this list depressed me. I never work on cool shit anymore. I haven't written a song in 5 years I bet
ugh
- do my taxes
- stretch sometimes
- don't clench my jaw
- go out of town for a weekend sometime soon
- sew all of the missing buttons back onto my shirts
- make art
My projects:
* As (newly appointed) managing director/co-captain of Get Tight Dance Troupe I'm excited to get practices going again and make a dance video with RCH!
* As (newly) single lady I'm reconnecting with friends, getting into a new home-life routine, and starting to think about going on dates.
* Also I'm scrambling to come up with a plan for Spring Break. What should I do?! It's too late to fly anywhere. Should I take the train to Montana and visit family or cobble together some Oregon day trips?
i really like doing readings but you can only do so many readings for yourself/your husband. Trying to get customers. Feels like a fun project for me.
Secondly, as evidenced by this thread, we are all so solidly in our THIRTIES. Hearing about your lists makes me feel a little more okay with mine.
Wanda: let's plan our own summer trip!
YT: I want my tarot card read! Perhaps Bill Mc and I can schedule a dual reading (??) while he's in town for spring break (starting thurs).
- Try to get in bed by 10:30
- Prepare for my week on Sunday night
- Transfer stupid old retirement account out of exploitative account
- Get Calvin screened for early Kindergarten entry [DONE]
- Make fairly healthy dinners so I have lunch leftovers, since I no longer have time to leave the office to get food, like, ever.
- Take ballet once a week
Sometimes I am bummed about the massive opportunity costs of my life. But hey, I love my job, my partner, and my kid; we should all be so lucky.
which is good because there's no way we're ever going to be able to afford to adopt a child.
I wish Calvin were the only child on earth
I guess that would be sort of sad
On thanksgiving he flipped the record and then told us his name was "DJ Cheese"!
He DJs every time he comes over, so great. We put the record player on a higher table and Mike was concerned about getting a stool for the DJ.
my favorite Calvin moment was when he was being very polite and quiet at dinner and then suddenly turned to Josh and said solemnly "Dad, my penis hurts"
YOUTH MUST REBEL