Ilya in 2007
2007 was 94% worth living.
In 2005, Ilya
did 169 things,
went 9 places,
met 0 people, and
consumed 48 products.
Ilya has written 1 year in review entry…
- My year in review — 2 years ago
January
Added to 43 Things:
- join the city car club
- study some OS X Widgets
- play backgammon at the Human Be-in
- focus — completed 2 months later
- Visit the Rainforest
- Get a digital SLR camera — completed 7 months later
- keep track of my favorite words — completed 7 months later
- see a horse race — completed 8 months later
- embrace antisyzygy — completed about 1 year later
- read more poetry
- Stay hungry. Stay foolish — completed about 1 year later
- increase my speed typing on Dvorak keyboard — completed about 1 year later
- Visit more museums — completed about 1 year later
- wake up when my alarm clock goes off — completed about 1 year later
- participate in a therapy group — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- read 20 books in 2006 — Worth doing!
- Do 300 things — Worth doing!
- take a class in climate change
- Learn to solve the rubiks cube — Worth doing!
- try abseiling — Worth doing!
- learn something of the dismal science
- Be myself
- drive to an unfamiliar place — Worth doing!
- try kale — Worth doing!
- shop in IKEA — Worth doing!
- buy toilet paper — Worth doing!
- remember to flush the toilet — Worth doing!
- play monopoly — Worth doing!
- get a tetanus shot — Worth doing!
- Take a train somewhere — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Angel Of The North — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
Read:
- Miss Garnet's Angel — Worth consuming!
- Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants — Not worth consuming
- Owl of Minerva A Memoir — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- Ys — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- 21 Grams — Worth consuming!
- Apocalypto — Worth consuming!
- Infamous — Worth consuming!
- La tourneuse de pages — Worth consuming!
- Babel — Worth consuming!
→ See more from January
February
Added to 43 Things:
- have fun at 43 Things — completed 4 months later
- stop homophobia
- follow some astronomy blogs and podcasts — completed about 1 year later
- contribute to the gouldianisation of the world — completed about 1 year later
- petition postcard to return to posting on 43things — completed about 1 year later
- be jackie hayes — completed about 1 year later
- confuse everybody — completed about 1 year later
- have 100 avatars — completed about 1 year later
- pick up the pieces — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- go hill walking — Worth doing!
- report my progress — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Read:
Listened to:
- Chutes Too Narrow — Worth consuming!
→ See more from February
March
Added to 43 Things:
- Wish GypsieWriter A Great First Day Of The Rest Of Her Life Birthday March 31st — completed about 15 hours later
- spring clean — completed 5 days later
- sort my paperwork — completed 20 days later
- talk american — completed 5 months later
- blog — completed 6 months later
- Watch more comedy
- reacquaint myself with some of the concerns of the analytic tradition in anglo-american philosophy
- support oxfam — completed about 1 year later
- choose a life of health and wellness — completed about 1 year later
- take the stairs — completed about 1 year later
- get a haircut — completed about 1 year later
- always add a title to 43T entries — completed about 1 year later
- receive 4300 cheers — completed about 1 year later
- Tag my 43 things — completed about 1 year later
- learn how to use chopsticks — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
Read:
- The Red Sea Sharks (Adventure of Tintin) — Worth consuming!
- King Ottokar's Sceptre (Adventures of Tintin) — Worth consuming!
- Ed Reardon's Week — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- Wincing the Night Away — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Glenn Gould Hereafter — Worth consuming!
→ See more from March
April
Added to 43 Things:
- be afflicted by Obsessive Cheer Disorder — completed 2 months later
- educate myself about climate change — completed about 1 year later
- forget about learning to take better photographs, just take more photos
Completed on 43 Things:
- Wish GypsieWriter A Great First Day Of The Rest Of Her Life Birthday March 31st — Worth doing!
- learn how to use 43 Things — Worth doing!
- spring clean — Worth doing!
- focus — Worth doing!
- sort my paperwork — Worth doing!
- leaflet for the Green Party — Worth doing!
- See Breakfast At Tiffany's — Worth doing!
- watch Lost in Translation — Not worth doing
- Drink coffee without sugar — Worth doing!
- drink guinness — Worth doing!
- read a book to a child — Worth doing!
- make a mistake — Worth doing!
- get a job I enjoy — Worth doing!
- buy a cell phone — Not worth doing
- study — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Read:
- Marx: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions X) — Worth consuming!
- Tintin: The Complete Companion — Worth consuming!
- Last Generation — Worth consuming!
- I An Actor — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- 300 — Not worth consuming
- The Lives of Others — Worth consuming!
→ See more from April
May
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- see the Angel of the North — Worth doing!
- attend a Society of Friends meeting — Worth doing!
- Visit the V&A Museum — Worth doing!
- live on a small island — Not worth doing
- Make people laugh. — Worth doing!
- read Anna Karenina — Worth doing!
- dig Cat Stevens — Worth doing!
- play Scrabble online — Worth doing!
- talk to you nice — Worth doing!
- stay in a bothy — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
Read:
- Suite Francaise — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Zodiac — Worth consuming!
- Mon meilleur ami (My Best Friend) — Worth consuming!
→ See more from May
June
Completed on 43 Things:
- relieve my tinnitus — Worth doing!
- do some astronomical observing — Worth doing!
- Wish Ophelia a serene birthday full of joy on June 21st — Worth doing!
- develop a scottish accent — Worth doing!
- comment on my avatar — Worth doing!
- have fun at 43 Things — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
- Blackford Hill — Worth visiting!
- Muckle Flugga
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
Read:
- A Glimpse of Nothingness: Experiences in an American Zen Community — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
Watched:
- De battre, mon coeur s'est arrêté — Worth consuming!
→ See more from June
July
Added to 43 Things:
- mourn the loss of Ingmar Bergman — completed 5 days later
- learn about zen buddhism — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- get a new camera
- join the library — Worth doing!
- Write a CV — Worth doing!
- be afflicted by Obsessive Cheer Disorder — Worth doing!
- Fly on a plane — Worth doing!
- do 400 things — Worth doing!
- find a nook-ish cafe to sit and write in — Worth doing!
- finish college — Worth doing!
- wish Stine1 a poodle-iferous, fantabulous birthday on July 12 — Worth doing!
- visit a zoo — Not worth doing
- Cross the equator — Worth doing!
- go bowling — Worth doing!
- learn how to use Flickr — Worth doing!
- climb a rock wall — Not worth doing
- take an official IQ test
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Read:
- Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982 (Shambhala Dragon Editions) — Worth consuming!
- Buddhism Plain and Simple (Arkana) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 19: Greenwich/Romsey — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Ne le dis a personne — Worth consuming!
→ See more from July
August
Added to 43 Things:
- cheer the same entry twice — completed 1 day later
- put some sounds on — completed about 1 month later
- use an umbrella — completed about 1 month later
- use gnubg to improve my backgammon
- tour the Scottish Parliament building — completed 4 months later
- do a bus tour of Edinburgh — completed 5 months later
- join the Edinburgh Photographic Society
- enjoy Fall 2007 by having one new and fulfilling experience in October, November, and December
- read some SF — completed 10 months later
- brew up some decaf — completed 11 months later
- fingerpop — completed 11 months later
- drink a g'n't — completed 11 months later
- Share How You Came To 43 Things — completed 11 months later
- break the law — completed 11 months later
- learn to love tofu — completed 11 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- better appreciate the people in my life — Worth doing!
- live in Edinburgh, work in Newcastle — Worth doing!
- mourn the loss of Ingmar Bergman — Worth doing!
- go to a movie premiere — Worth doing!
- make 1000 43T entries — Worth doing!
- Get a Camera Phone — Worth doing!
- get a watch — Worth doing!
- wear sunscreen — Worth doing!
- listen to The Archers — Worth doing!
- do 430 things
- take a walk on Bleak Street — Not worth doing
- have savings in my savings account — Worth doing!
- drink a black cow — Worth doing!
- keep my fingernails trim — Worth doing!
- solve a rubiks cube — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
- High Force Waterfall — visited about 1 month later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Orkney Islands — Worth visiting!
- Inverness — Worth visiting!
Read:
- Meta Maths — Worth consuming!
→ See more from August
September
Added to 43 Things:
- Celebrate Peace Day — completed about 1 month later
- stop messing about
- welcome the porridge season — completed 2 months later
- go to some astronomy talks — completed 7 months later
- work through my avatars
- celebrate Bewick — completed 7 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Buy a sleeping bag — Worth doing!
- cheer the same entry twice — Worth doing!
- watch A Scanner Darkly — Worth doing!
- learn formal logic — Worth doing!
- support friends of the earth — Worth doing!
- Be 100% Microsoft free — Worth doing!
- Give 430 cheers — Worth doing!
- wish Todd Schoonover a happy healthy and full of love birthday on September 15th — Worth doing!
- be in a car accident — Not worth doing
- climb a ladder — Worth doing!
- eat gjetost — Worth doing!
- go to a football match — Not worth doing
- run away from everything for a few days without telling anybody — Worth doing!
- visit an art gallery — Worth doing!
- Wish Cantleygirl a wonderful, amazing, very zen-like birthday on September 28th — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
Visited on 43 Places:
- Roslin Glen — Worth visiting!
- Arthur's Seat — Worth visiting!
- High Force Waterfall — Worth visiting!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
Read:
- The Way of Zen — Worth consuming!
→ See more from September
October
Added to 43 Things:
- superCheer — completed about 1 month later
- read, understand and memorise three poems — completed 4 months later
- write a poem — completed 7 months later
- Give 7000 cheers — completed 7 months later
- Get a Shiatsu massage — completed 7 months later
- use the bus — completed 7 months later
- listen to flamenco — completed 7 months later
- Be able to explain Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- learn GO
Completed on 43 Things:
- become a yea sayer — Worth doing!
- watch Chimp Week on BBC1 — Worth doing!
- appreciate maths and science more — Worth doing!
- Burn incense — Worth doing!
- play marbles — Worth doing!
- slide down a slide — Worth doing!
- swing on a swing — Worth doing!
- get something off ebay — Worth doing!
- read "to kill a mockingbird" — Worth doing!
- type with 10 fingers — Worth doing!
- Read a classic — Worth doing!
- List all the Euphemisms we can come up with for...TITS! — Not worth doing
- Ride in a glass elevator — Worth doing!
- ride in a taxi — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Visited on 43 Places:
- The Sage Auditorium — Worth visiting!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
Read:
- The Dispossessed — Worth consuming!
- A House for Mr. Biswas — Worth consuming!
- Tehanu (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 4) — Worth consuming!
- Portnoy's Complaint — Worth consuming!
- The Wasp Factory — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Altered States — Worth consuming!
→ See more from October
November
Added to 43 Things:
- get over my hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
- Read the Shobogenzo
- prepare for the end of the human era — completed 6 months later
- learn something of the history of photography — completed 9 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- get over my Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia — Worth doing!
- Celebrate Peace Day — Worth doing!
- try romanescu broccoli
- wish Miles Davis a happy 80th birthday — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
→ See more from November
December
Added to 43 Things:
- read some literature from the Heian period
- be a better loser — completed 4 months later
- revive the eyeball brigade and have another eyeball avatar week! — completed 6 months later
- Wish MelissaThinksAgain a Negative-Energy-Free Birthday December 10 — completed 6 months later
- build a machine to predict the future
- review how I use 43T — completed 5 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- overcome negative conditioning — Worth doing!
- Buy a new keyboard — Worth doing!
- wish Paolo a fantabulous birthday on 9 December 2007 — Worth doing!
- welcome the porridge season — Worth doing!
- superCheer — Worth doing!
- Host a grand memorial service for the late Arsene Lupin — Worth doing!
- Donate 10,000 grains of rice through freerice.com — Worth doing!
- donate to the Wikipedia — Worth doing!
- explore OuLiPo — Worth doing!
- be a tutor in Adult Education — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
Read:
- Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Twentieth Century Classics) — Worth consuming!
- The Leopard — Worth consuming!
- The Left Hand of Darkness — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Little Miss Sunshine — Worth consuming!
- Michael Clayton — Worth consuming!
