Good luck with all your summer goals! Make sure you find time to relax and enjoy yourself too before uni kicks off! :)Most of this is relaxing and enjoying myself... but with goals for getting something productive out of it as well. But yes, I'll remember the advice, thanks! :)
First week (Late Nov-early Dec):I didn't complete everything. :( I'll put up next week's on Monday or so.
WritingI only wrote 1566 words, although that was all on one day. I was reasonably happy with it, but I haven't got to doing as much as I'd like of this. Part of the reason I didn't was I didn't know how to finish a certain scene; on the plus side, I've got more ideas as to how to flesh out one bit I skipped, so hopefully work on that next week.
- To Kindle A Flame - write 5,000 words, beginning at 50,155
After a weird thing where Word apparently removed all the comments and suggestions given in a document, I found a fresh copy (with all the notes) again, and opened it up, found my place in both. I also did a bit of work on it, so more than I was hoping.
- David: Anointed Shepherd - open document and Word document and find place in both
I got this done. Not that it was a very hard task... however, I did then reread bits of what I'd written (and found it needed loads of work...).
- What She Gleaned - open document
PianoI did at least an hour. I didn't time it, though. However, I was able to work on Tempest 2nd movt, and mostly on remembering fingering for the Revolutionary Etude (I worked on it for a while last year, and am going back to it in hopes of strengthening my left-hand work).
- Practise for at least an hour (not accessing most of the time in the week)
LearningI chased up what I need to learn and have it open; now I just need to do it.
- Get an overview of what I'm trying to learn
UniI did approximately what I set out to do. :P
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Work...Next week.... :( This was high on my list, it just got swamped by doing other things.
- Make a resume and send to people
DrawingI didn't do either of these things.Sewing
- Find leaves picture
- Get out cross-stitch
OtherYou should've seen the massive pile of stuff to throw out. :D Did this one, all right!
- Reorganise stuff post-VCE
84.
- Take at least 10 photos
My bike now has cobwebs on it. Oops.
- Ride 10kms at least once in the week
*sigh* Didn't do this. However, I ran through bits of it in my head, so that's something, anyhow.
- Get out Hebrews and reread chapters 1/2, see where I'm at
:) Did this.
- Bask in freedom and socialise with rabbit :) :)
Now Firefox only has a total of 198 tabs over 2 windows, instead of closer to three or four hundred.
- Clear up Firefox of VCE stuff :D
Second week (Middle of Dec):This week was an epic failure on a few fronts, especially writing. However, I was working hard most of the week - it was just other stuff happened, and I definitely underestimated time taken with stuff. Maybe next week??
WritingA spectacular failure. Not a word written, or read, or fixed. >:( Must. Do. Better.
- To Kindle A Flame - since I'm now behind :-\ write 10,000 words, beginning at 51,721 (so at least 61,721 by the end of the week)
- David: Anointed Shepherd - finish working through chapters 'Life at the palace', 'The bigger they are...' and 'The covenant'
- What She Gleaned - reread/skim whole lot, note down what needs doing
PianoTwo pages?
- Get fingering correct for Revolutionary Etude and play through at slow pace first three pages without too much faltering
I got close - only a couple of mistakes at a reasonable pace. I'll settle for that.
- Play at least a page of any music without making a mistake
Learning*sadly shakes head* Didn't finish, although I did 3 of them (and started the fourth one). Ah, well.
- Go through all the circulatory system introduction (already watched one video, Khan Academy) including making concise notes of what I need to know; total of 10 videos
UniI did stuff to do with scholarship applications that I hadn't expected to do (I'd forgot about them). So exceeds expectations! :)
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WorkI did that early in the week... ten days after it was sent six hours after I enquired... oops! I need to get on with these things quicker.... (Also, more developments in the possibility of work department. We'll see.)
- Make a resume and send to people (didn't do last week, needs doing)
DrawingNot a sausage. Didn't do this.
- Find picture wanting to draw
- Find watercolour pencils/look up if I want to acquire some
SewingI got my cross-stitch out, photographed it (to have a frame of reference at the end of summer) and proceeded to spend quite a bit of time (and thread) on it. So I exceeded this goal, at any rate. :D
- Get out cross-stitch (task from last week)
OtherSome. Not all. But fifty or sixty.
- Curate photos from last week
Not even one.
- Take more photos
On Monday, I rode 15.6kms along a bike trail. :) It took me just under 1.5 hours - I'm out of practice! Didn't do more, either.
- Ride 10kms+ at least twice in the week
*sigh* Didn't do.
- Get out Hebrews and reread chapters 1/2, see where I'm at (didn't achieve this last week)
Brought her in on Monday - there was hail, and I looked out and she was cowering in the corner of her cage, so I brought her inside for a while; the instant she got inside, she was happy, but beforehand she definitely wasn't. Then also on Tuesday; it was late at night and she just sat on my lap and watched me while I almost went to sleep. Then on Thursday, Friday, Saturday - so more than I wanted minimum.
- Bring rabbit in at least thrice and take at least one photo of her :D
I've I think one more to do. So almost all done.
- Shift all the things that can/need to be shifted from school email address to personal
Went through just over 200.
- Go through 100+ of school emails and delete/de-label [currently 9,974 unread]
Done!
- Do all the stuff to do with receiving ATAR/SS's, etc.
*ticks off long list*
- Go to multitudinous things that need going to
My summer goals may go out the window (though I'll still try 'em) because - to my amazement and delight and trepidation - I got a job. Much uncertainty in that, though, so I'll see how much I work and what happens.
Congrats on the job!! What type of job is it? :DKitchen stuff at an aged care facility - not really sure what that entails! :) It's also my first job, so... lots of stuff to learn.
turin did you already know about my job before now by the way? if not, apologies...
Yes, you mentioned at Yertle's party.Good, I couldn't remember. What you said here though scared me into thinking maybe not!
My goals for the summer:...Fanfare?
I didn't complete the first draft. I didn't rearrange or fix the timeline issues. I'm still not far away from where I started the summer with. I have clearer ideas in my head, they just haven't translated to paper. :-\
- To Kindle A Flame - complete first draft, rearrange and fix timeline issues created, ideally do second draft (but if I get to partway through it I won't complain) [note: this is the story currently featured in my creative excerpts thread, though I may include other stuff from other stories later]
I did some of this. Not much. I didn't complete the second draft.
- David: Anointed Shepherd - complete second draft/make notes for a third and send to person again
This is depressing. Not a thing done.
- What She Gleaned - figure out what's going on with all the stories-within-story, rearrange all the pieces/make a conceptual map of how I see it; actual writing/editing does not need to happen; end with a clear plan on what to do next with it [haven't touched since NaNoWriMo 2018]
Nope nopety nope nope. Better, but not well.
- Play Tempest movt 2 well
Once again, nope.
- Be able to play movts 1 and 3 all the way through at least without a break
Kinda, maybe? On the stumble through stuff? Nowhere near playing close to speed, though, mainly due to lack of practise.
- Be able to play at least first page of Revolutionary Etude at close to speed, stumble through first three/four pages
Did some of this. Read textbooks and things. So somewhat a victory, I suppose.
- Um... learn stuff?
- More will be added when I know what I'm doing here...
- Get a general idea of what's going on which I don't know now
I can tick all this off! (I hope.)
- Prepare for uni
- Do everything necessary
- Know all sorts of stuff I don't know now, have everything I need
- Get working with children's check
- Get police check
I got work. Decided I wouldn't have time for proofreading given that I have work. So that was a definite success. :)
- Hopefully find work/apply at least, have a resume
- Decide whether I want to do proofreading stuff, if so what, and have it set up/in the swing of things before uni starts (if I want to)
This is a big nope.
- Do pastel of leaves picture/decide if I don't want to
- Try pastel of rock picture
- Experiment somewhat with watercolour
Definitely did quite some cross-stitch! ...Didn't touch the knitting, though.
- Complete recognisable section of cross-stitch
- Finish knitting/start new knitting (decide when I get to it)
Took photos! And more photos! And ones I was happy with! So yay! And riding is okay, at least I hope it is since I've kind of got to ride 15+ kms tomorrow to uni! ...Hebrews just didn't quite happen. Social might be covered by work maybe?
- Take lots of photos :) - end with a curated list of 100+
- Experiment with water photos and end with at least 1 in curated list
- Be all right with riding 20km at a time and not feel dead afterwards...
- Learn up to at least Hebrews 5 thoroughly
- ...Be more social somehow? Meet new people/talk to people?