Did I miss you being a Classicist or something adjacent?
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I’d say I’m a pseudo-classicist 
One of my undergrad majors was Ancient Greek, then I studied and translated parts of some 17th-century super wonky Latin treatises for my dissertation. But my Classicist training is honestly pretty scattered and I’ve forgotten a lot haha
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I’m also late to the party but ready to commit to anything that makes 2020 feel like it’s not a total wash. Excited to hold myself accountable and feel more productive after the last three months of nebulous chaos! Better late than never 
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Random update:
We took Puglet for a bike ride on the minuteman bike trail a couple weeks ago. He loved it! We thought for sure he would fall asleep as it was about a 2.5 hour trip but no he wanted to look at everything and everyone we passed.
I also got the news from my boss that I can basially make my own schedule and work 4 longer days a week and take 1 day off and that would be fine. So I crossed off negotiate more vacation days off.
If I can just hike a 4k footer or hold crow pose for a minute I will get BINGO!
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SO CLOSE.
I’m finally making real progress on a few goals. Hoping to also get a bingo at some point!
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Making good progress! Although I’m a little annoyed at my past self for distributing the harder items so well 
Notes:
-Activism webinar: did a multi-day anti-racism course
-Although not complete yet, I made progress in the EF savings, reading, and cooking goals
-The only goal I have actively tried to do and failed so far is the “No reddit for a week” lolololol
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Reddit is the bane of my productivity.
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Me: I’ll just take a 5 minute break from work
Reddit: oh hai
Me: shit where did that hour go
Reddit: cackles gleefully
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Do you have StayFocused or anything like it on your computer? That may be useful if you’re really trying to stay off Reddit. You can nuke it for a whole week if you need to.
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Oh yeah, I’ll probably end up doing something like that- thanks for the reminder! I’m realizing that honestly most of the time it’s not so much an issue during work as during the evening, when my brain is tired and wants to look at puppies. So I need to nuke it and make sure I have fluffy replacements readily available (like a fun book, knitting, etc).
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June update.
I am close to my running goal, did 5km in 30 minutes and 6 seconds last week and ran 9.4km without stopping. So hopefully should get those in July.
I am falling behind (well below 50% in a few) and some probably wont happen due to Covid, but I am leaving them there for now.
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June looks sadly like May (which looked sadly like April)…lots of things in progress, but nothing quite complete. And the plants that I thought would let me get to plant-alive-for-three-months status got clobbered by hail, so I’ll have to hope the peppers or eggplant or something survives the next month. Also still need to come up with a replacement for my planned city trip, and possibly the new mountain biking trail one as well because every trail I’ve tried recently has been packed and trying to pass someone on a singletrack while staying six feet apart is something of a nonstarter (not to mention that mountain bikers yield to everyone, and it’s not really biking if I have to walk my bike for miles). Oh, well, so it goes.
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I’ve re-written my bingo card:
| B | I | N | G | O |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimate of home sale price from realtor | Camp 3 times | Visit Wildlife center | Forest volunteer day | |
| Lead a hike | Make a 2021 calendar from photos | |||
| Host a gathering at my house | Eat & empty chest freezer | Take yoga anatomy course | ||
| Complete Beg Yoga class notebook | Volunteer 30-50 hours at shelter (24 so far)* | Teach an outdoor yoga class | Try 4 new vegetarian recipes | |
| Contribute to IRA | Make mozzarella from scratch | Stand Up Paddle board | Paint baseboards | Go on a date |
There are still a couple of things on here that could be affected by Covid.
- Volunteer at the shelter. Case levels are low here. I’m close to meeting the minimum I set. If I don’t feel it is safe, or the shelter ends up canceling volunteer shifts for the rest of the year, I will accept whatever I’ve already done here.
- Leading a hike and hosting a gathering at my house - both outdoors, small events.
- Contribute to IRA. I’ve already made the contribution. I need to EARN enough that I don’t have to rescind part of it. I do very little paid work these days, and that dropped to zero for a while during Covid.
- Eat and empty chest freezer. I’d still like to get this empty enough to defrost though I’m wondering if that’s really a good idea with the summer surge. Haven’t dropped this one yet.
- I’ve volunteered for one trail day and am on the waitlist for another event. Maybe one of them will happen?
In June (or was it May?) I completed the birthday card challenge. Yeah my progress stalled for a while there.
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Bingo right across the middle!
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Sew a garment | |||
| Mend 3 things from mending pile | Finish writing book 14 | Sew patches on winter coat | ||
| FREE SPACE | ||||
| Knit a garment | Bike ride 4 times | |||
| Read 10 books I owned before 2019 | See a physical therapist for feet | Touch up paint in house | Reach Weathertop |
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Nice job!
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Awooooooooo
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Congrats! Is there a specific prize from the sheet you would like?
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I finished my cousin’s afghan - that’s three squares complete! I’m hoping I can finish a few more soon, too. I’m making progress on most of them, even if many are not yet finished.
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I’ve knocked off a couple more items (savings > student loans, and getting a Pap smear )
Need to think about changing a couple of these though - Despite my best efforts, it’s going to be pretty hard to have a birthday this year (as it was in March and the planned party got…interrupted)
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| B | I | N | G | O |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purge 75% of belongings | 120 No Spend Days | Keep monthly average Dining out to $100 | ||
| Pay off 2 of 7 Student loans | Hike 1 of the “4K footers” | Run a Half-Marathon | ||
| No Amazon Orders all year! | FREE | Reduce Garbage Waste to 10 trash bag a year | ||
| Contribute $2000 to Roth | Hold 5 min Plank | |||
| Hold Crow Pose for 1 min | Read 12 books | Total Yearly spend under $30k |
So of the items I have left here’s my mid-year update:
- Purge 75% of Belongings - I continue to declutter items at random. some catagories I have easily purged 75% or more others are more like 25-50% still a visable different
- Pay off 2 of 7 Student Loans - I have a balance of $1,285.08 on my sallest loan and expect to pay this off by next month.
- Hold Crow Pose for 1 min - HAHAHAHAH yeah I have not been working out like at all. I was doing really well in April(?) I think, but it’s all a big blur now. I really need to practice daily even for a few mins if I’m going to get this crossed off.
- 120 No spend days - at last count (6/22) I was at 60 days so I’m on track.
- No Amazon orders all year - So far so good
- Hike 1 of the “4k footers” - Hoping to get this done this summer/early fall
- Keep monthly average dining out to $100 - doing really well with this (thanks covid)
- Contribute $2k to Roth - Once my next SL is paid off I will focus more on this, though now might be a better time to throw some money in the stock market.
- Read 12 books - I’m at 3 I think, I have not done a good job at keeping track so this may be wrong but It’s not far off if it is. I am currently reading 4 books at teh moment
- Run Half-marathon - Register for one in September but I don’t know if this is going to happen or how on earth I’m going to run 13.1 miles in 2 months!!! See item 3 - I have not been working out at all!
- Reduce Garbage waste to 10 bags a year - I’m at 6 so I don’t think I’ll be able to cross this one off.
- Hold plank for 5 mins - see line 3 and 11
- Total yearly spend under $30k - I’m tracking to finish the year at about $28k
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