Summer ‘09 To-Do List: Week 11

I’m now on week eleven of my Summer ’09 To-Do List. Here’s the weekly update.

Currently Pursuing:
7. wake up so early that I can run with impunity
16. become a video game ninja
23. clean out my porn folder
37. don’t be lazy
64. expand the Shufflingdead empire

The new goal this week is #23, clean out my porn folder. As with so many things in life, a porn folder left unchecked can easily go from small and orderly to unkempt and unmanageable. I’m trying to tame the wild porn folder by re-ordering some things, and deleting a lot more.

#16 continues with mixed results. I feel that I’ve really upped my Mario Kart Wii skills, unlocking much of what I had left. Still, a few nagging things remain, and I’ve sort of lost interest. I’ve started playing DDR Mario Mix and StarFox 64 again, with the hope of unlocking everything/earning all the medals in both games. While my initial progress in both is promising, I can’t help but think I’ll lose interest with these as well before I’ve truly mastered them.

Ongoing Goals:
1. write every day
11. get in good enough shape to fuck with impunity
14. make more money than God and then become God
27. don’t spend any money until I’m rich
36. don’t succumb to The Man

I’ve decided to add a category of ongoing goals to these weekly updates in order to keep the “Currently Pursuing” list fresh while still demonstrating my commitment to completing these longer term goals. These are goals that are a little harder to say that I’ve definitively completed, or that will simply be completed automatically when the summer ends so long as I keep working on them until then.

Goals Completed this week:
26. come up with a list to post in my room of decrees to live by

I have a long tradition of posting a list of certain rules to live by on the tack-board in my room. The previous list held several items relating specifically to school, like “don’t buy food at school.” Since I’m done school, a new list was needed. The new rules/decrees are: don’t spend money, read and write, get up early, and apply for jobs. All of which actually relate to the summer goals list as well, they’re a sort of super-refined version of the list, containing only the most broad and important pursuits.

15% done!