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Organize photos. No progress.

Record singing - Recorded a a couple.

Road trip to Philly - Thinking about around 4 days taking place sometime in the range of July 24 - August 10 (~~Note to ayashi/kelsin: When's your wedding, again?~~ Thanks!)

Visit the crater photography exhibit - FAIL, it closed June 6, not July 6

Learn programming - in progress, working on "The C Programming Language"

Inbox 0 - doing pretty well with the work inbox.

New: Creative writing - found some old pieces that I'm transcribing, and wrote a fanfic.

Now I Walk In Beauty - lyrics are traditional Navajo/Hopi Indian. If you notice any random Kappa squawks in there, could you let me know what time they're at so I can cut them?

I've moved the progress tracking of my music endeavours.

Current Music: Simon & Garfunkel - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard | Powered by Last.fm

This summer's projects you may recall included making music. Well, I've started! Today I worked for a while on a song that I just could *not* get right, so I quit and instead started working on "Brown Eyed Girl" (Van Morrison) and it came out quite well.

( My criticisms - cut-tagged so you can read AFTER you listen )

Maybe for my next song I'll work on vocals only - there's some rounds I can do a capella that I think could sound really nice.

My current list of Summer Projects. Enumerated for convenience, not priority.

Organize photos. My high school photography instructor told me the secret to good photography is to take many photos and only show the best ones. With the advent of digital photography I have perfected the former, but need to work on the latter. My goal is to take the best photos from my anonymyzed Flickr account and upload them into my personally identifiable account (for those of you who know my real name, that Flickr username is first initial last name, no spaces or punctuation).

Record singing - I have enjoyed singing since at least 5th grade, which makes it 20 years now. My singing voice is somewhat soft, but I have good relative pitch. I also play guitar though a bit crappily. My goal here is to record guitar and vocals for a few covers (Indigo Girls, Dar Williams, possibly Sarah McLachlan) and one or two of my own, using Garage Band. I will need to get something to plug in my guitar (it's got a jack) to a USB port (kelsin, got anything like this I could borrow, or that you could recommend I buy?). I am not adverse to collaborations.

Road trip to Philly - one of the two surviving Galileo telescopes is out of Italy for the first time ever and is on exhibit through Sept 7 at the Franklin Institute. Along with this I may visit nerdcamp.

Visit the crater photography exhibit at CLAMPART in NYC; open through July 6.

Learn programming

Inbox 0 - a lifestyle change in which I treat my email Inbox as a To-Do list, and remove everything I've completed, so that my Inbox stays perpetually close to 0 items.

More items may be added in the future, but generally 3-5 items is a good goal and I achieve 2-3 of them.

Edit: Added programming, I knew I was missing something.

So every summer I try to have some goals to accomplish. And here's how I measured up on this summer's goals.

Online course: I completed the online training, and decided not to complete developing the course for this semester, since I was worried about the workload of both that AND the new physics course. 90% complete

Calc Phys II: I reviewed the earlier chapters. I wish I'd done more. 50% complete.

Florida road trip: Awesome success, though the camping part wasn't, as usual. Also went to Washington DC. 100% resounding success!

Renewable electric: Every summer I completely fail at one of the goals. This one wouldn't've required all that much time/effort, but I just never did it. 0% complete

Veggie Day: Every week that I was home, I cooked and ate one vegetarian meal a week. I originally set the time limit as being the end of the summer, partially for fear I wouldn't be able to complete it if I thought it was going to be forever. But now that Fall's started I think I can keep it up if I lower it to one veggie meal every other week - in the summer I cooked twice a week, but I only cook once a weekish during the year. I even managed to slowly transition from meat substitutes, though I still like them and think I'll do them occasionally. 95% success - I won't give myself 100% b/c I ate like crap when i was traveling.

Additional goal - Exercise: This one I only decided sometime in June, after the summer had already started. When I was home I exercised 3 times a week, and I'm working on continuing this throughout the school year too.

Overall, I'm happy w/ how I met my goals.

I've been off LJ for the last week due to visitors from out of town (hi

blue102!). Did I miss anything?

Meanwhile, it's now summer, and I have exactly nothing to do. It's strange. I'm bored.

Every summer I take on a few projects for work, personal enrichment, or goals I keep putting off. I guess the latter are kinda like instead of New Year's resolutions. For example, Summer 1999 (between Junior and Senior years of college) I spent in Tucson, AZ, and I resolved to (1) learn to drive, (2) play the guitar, and (3) learn Chem 101. At the end of the summer I had my AZ driver's license, played guitar better than I probably ever have since, and didn't learn Chem but convinced myself I didn't really need to do so. What can I say, I grew up in NYC where not only do you not need to drive, it's against the law to drive on a learner's permit under age 17. And I still hate chem.

( Here's a scoop on these goals/projects/enrichments this summer, and a call for suggestions on one specifically. )

So what I'm looking for from y'all is other types of meat-substitutes to try. I want them to be SAVORY, I want to be able to purchase them in one-meal quantities (so if T$ or I don't like it after the first meal, we don't have to eat it again), and I want to be able to get them at a store I won't have to drive 50 miles to get to (i.e., Stop'n'Shop, Big Y, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, local co-op).

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