Ilya in 2008

2008, so far, is 92% worth living.

In 2005, Ilya did 122 things, went 1 place, met 1 person, and consumed 22 products.

Ilya has written 1 year in review entry…

Years: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. report a very similar goal — completed 153 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. promote awareness of the plight of the great apes — Worth doing!
  2. read some books on graphic design and typography — Worth doing!
  3. tour the Scottish Parliament building — Worth doing!
  4. use NetNewsWire for reading feeds — Worth doing!
  5. take an interest in politics — Not worth doing
  6. do a bus tour of Edinburgh — Not worth doing
  7. handle stress better — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. re-visit australia
  2. Watch more comedy
Listened to:
  1. Giant Steps — Worth consuming!
  2. Franz Schubert: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2 [Hybrid SACD] — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  2. I'm Not There — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. listen to Noam Chomsky — completed 77 days later
  2. live and study in London — completed 121 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. GIVE 35 cheers in one day — Not worth doing
  2. support Edinburgh's arthouse cinemas — Worth doing!
  3. better acquaint myself with the achievement of notable Scottish writers and thinkers — Worth doing!
  4. attend Science Festival talks — Worth doing!
  5. read The Glass Bead Game — Worth doing!
  6. walk to work — Worth doing!
  7. embrace antisyzygy — Worth doing!
  8. write about people I see on the bus — Worth doing!
  9. ride critical mass — Worth doing!
  10. be kind — Worth doing!
  11. read a blog on a regular basis — Worth doing!
  12. start going to the pub for a pint — Worth doing!
  13. aggressively squander time — Worth doing!
  14. add another string to my bow — Worth doing!
  15. celebrate international rumi year — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Touch the Life of a Stranger in Need
  2. read more poetry
  3. read The Gambler by Dostoevsky
  4. build a PC
  5. be a mensch
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Freedonia
Listened to:
  1. Schubert: The Last Three Piano Sonatas — Worth consuming!
  2. King Crimson Songbook, Vol. 1 — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Viridiana - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. contradict myself — completed 56 days later
  2. spend a week away from my computer — completed 78 days later
  3. watch the pervert's guide to cinema — completed 79 days later
  4. Wish Gypsiewriter a So Much Fun It's Obscene Birthday March 31st — completed 70 days later
  5. Move to Denmark
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. buy weed. — Worth doing!
  2. Sleep on a boat — Worth doing!
  3. Shoplift — Not worth doing
  4. play tag — Worth doing!
  5. learn swimming — Worth doing!
  6. go on a rollercoaster — Worth doing!
  7. eat chips — Not worth doing
  8. increase my income — Worth doing!
  9. Blog for at least 6 months — Not worth doing
  10. bike ride — Worth doing!
  11. get a full time job — Not worth doing
  12. make flapjacks — Worth doing!
  13. listen more and speak less — Worth doing!
  14. listen to Lieder — Worth doing!
  15. read a self-help book — Not worth doing
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. sell my house in town
  2. become a yoist:)
  3. join the Edinburgh Photographic Society
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Denmark
Watched:
  1. fitzcarraldo — Worth consuming!
  2. atlantic city — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. protect my circadian rhythms — completed 52 days later
  2. Wish Arsene Lupin a glorious, soul-stirring real birthday on April 26. — completed 50 days later
  3. Get a new job
  4. do a course on Excel — completed 58 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go to some astronomy talks — Worth doing!
  2. be a better loser — Worth doing!
  3. wish Girl in the Curl a rockin' birthday on April 22! — Worth doing!
  4. listen to Noam Chomsky — Worth doing!
  5. own a small, cozy flat in a european city! — Not worth doing
  6. buy into geek pride — Worth doing!
  7. get a regular salary — Worth doing!
  8. celebrate Bewick — Worth doing!
  9. Team GRACE — Worth doing!
  10. buy some new friggin' sunglasses — Worth doing!
  11. contradict myself — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Write more
  2. read Beckett
  3. reacquaint myself with some of the concerns of the analytic tradition in anglo-american philosophy
  4. Discourse and Dish: a Literary Round Table & Informal Salon
  5. work through my avatars
Watched:
  1. Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  2. Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  3. Un Coeur en Hiver ( A Heart in Winter ) — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Eat sensibly — completed 27 days later
  2. meet up with my oldest friend and his wife — completed 20 days later
  3. read more literature
  4. fold 1000 origami cranes
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Give 5000 cheers — Not worth doing
  2. learn about zen buddhism — Worth doing!
  3. share quotes — Worth doing!
  4. surf astronomy picture of the day every day — Worth doing!
  5. receive Jukai — Worth doing!
  6. acquaint myself with the periodic table — Worth doing!
  7. share Scots words — Worth doing!
  8. take a vow of silence — Worth doing!
  9. go an entire day without speaking — Worth doing!
  10. write a poem — Worth doing!
  11. get SuperCheered! — Not worth doing
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. learn to play poker
  2. Start a Backgammon Club
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Little Sparta
Listened to:
  1. Plays Mozart — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Persona — Worth consuming!
  2. Chess Players — Worth consuming!
  3. Private Property — Worth consuming!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Get a job I like
  2. learn to do a headstand
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. enjoy the sunshine — Worth doing!
  2. post randomly — Worth doing!
  3. support oxfam — Worth doing!
  4. Stay hungry. Stay foolish — Worth doing!
  5. follow some astronomy blogs and podcasts — Worth doing!
  6. educate myself about climate change — Worth doing!
  7. recieve 5000 cheers — Worth doing!
  8. Give 7000 cheers — Worth doing!
  9. Get a Shiatsu massage — Worth doing!
  10. use the bus — Worth doing!
  11. listen to flamenco — Worth doing!
  12. prepare for the end of the human era — Worth doing!
  13. revive the eyeball brigade and have another eyeball avatar week! — Not worth doing
  14. Wish MelissaThinksAgain a Negative-Energy-Free Birthday December 10 — Worth doing!
  15. report a very similar goal — Not worth doing
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. stop homophobia
  2. build a machine to predict the future
  3. Move to Denmark
  4. enjoy Fall 2007 by having one new and fulfilling experience in October, November, and December
  5. learn more about web design
  6. Learn Ruby
  7. Get a new job
  8. promote scientific literacy
  9. start an empathy epidemic
  10. freelance at proofreading
  11. read more weighty russian literature
  12. learn Latin
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. John Muir Way — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. calypte
Listened to:
  1. Bryter Layter — Worth consuming!
  2. Five Leaves Left — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Bringing Up Baby
  2. Au revoir les enfants - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  3. Spirit of the Beehive - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  4. Fate of a Man (aka The Destiny of a Man)(Sud’ba cheloveka)(S. Bondarchuk, 1959) — Worth consuming!

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July

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get some lamps which use energy efficient light bulbs — Not worth doing
  2. spend less time on my computer — Worth doing!
  3. listen to Bob Dylan's theme time radio hour — Worth doing!
  4. see some fauna — Worth doing!
  5. read some SF — Worth doing!
  6. fall asleep on a plane — Worth doing!
  7. get my email under control — Worth doing!
  8. try Marmite — Not worth doing
  9. watch fireworks — Worth doing!
  10. book a flight to India — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Be able to explain Einstein's Theory of Relativity

→ See more from July


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