Ilya in 2008
2008, so far, is 92% worth living.
In 2005, Ilya
did 217 things,
went 2 places,
met 3 people, and
consumed 33 products.
Ilya has written 1 year in review entry…
- My year in review — 2 years ago
January
Added to 43 Things:
- report a very similar goal — completed 5 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- promote awareness of the plight of the great apes — Worth doing!
- read some books on graphic design and typography — Worth doing!
- tour the Scottish Parliament building — Worth doing!
- use NetNewsWire for reading feeds — Worth doing!
- take an interest in politics — Not worth doing
- do a bus tour of Edinburgh — Not worth doing
- handle stress better — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Listened to:
- Giant Steps — Worth consuming!
- Franz Schubert: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2 [Hybrid SACD] — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- I'm Not There — Worth consuming!
→ See more from January
February
Added to 43 Things:
- listen to Noam Chomsky — completed 2 months later
- live and study in London — completed 4 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- GIVE 35 cheers in one day
- support Edinburgh's arthouse cinemas — Worth doing!
- better acquaint myself with the achievement of notable Scottish writers and thinkers — Worth doing!
- attend Science Festival talks — Worth doing!
- read The Glass Bead Game — Worth doing!
- walk to work — Worth doing!
- embrace antisyzygy — Worth doing!
- ride critical mass — Worth doing!
- be kind — Worth doing!
- aggressively squander time — Worth doing!
- add another string to my bow — Worth doing!
- celebrate international rumi year — Worth doing!
- sponsor Gertie in the Edinburgh Moonwalk for breast cancer — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
Listened to:
- Schubert: The Last Three Piano Sonatas — Worth consuming!
- King Crimson Songbook, Vol. 1 — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Viridiana - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
→ See more from February
March
Added to 43 Things:
- contradict myself — completed about 1 month later
- spend a week away from my computer — completed 2 months later
- watch the pervert's guide to cinema — completed 2 months later
- Wish Gypsiewriter a So Much Fun It's Obscene Birthday March 31st — completed 2 months later
- Move to Denmark
Completed on 43 Things:
- buy weed. — Worth doing!
- Sleep on a boat — Worth doing!
- Shoplift — Not worth doing
- play tag — Worth doing!
- learn swimming — Worth doing!
- go on a rollercoaster — Worth doing!
- eat chips
- increase my income — Worth doing!
- Blog for at least 6 months
- bike ride — Worth doing!
- get a full time job — Not worth doing
- make flapjacks — Worth doing!
- listen more and speak less — Worth doing!
- listen to Lieder — Worth doing!
- read a self-help book — Not worth doing
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
Watched:
- fitzcarraldo — Worth consuming!
- Atlantic City — Worth consuming!
→ See more from March
April
Added to 43 Things:
- protect my circadian rhythms — completed about 1 month later
- Wish Arsene Lupin a glorious, soul-stirring real birthday on April 26. — completed about 1 month later
- Get a new job
- do a course on Excel — completed about 1 month later
Completed on 43 Things:
- go to some astronomy talks — Worth doing!
- be a better loser — Worth doing!
- wish Girl in the Curl a rockin' birthday on April 22! — Worth doing!
- listen to Noam Chomsky — Worth doing!
- own a small, cozy flat in a european city!
- buy into geek pride — Worth doing!
- celebrate Bewick — Worth doing!
- Team GRACE — Worth doing!
- buy some new friggin' sunglasses — Worth doing!
- contradict myself — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Watched:
- Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Un Coeur en Hiver ( A Heart in Winter ) — Worth consuming!
→ See more from April
May
Added to 43 Things:
- Eat sensibly — completed 27 days later
- meet up with my oldest friend and his wife — completed 20 days later
- fold 1000 origami cranes
- read more literature
Completed on 43 Things:
- surf astronomy picture of the day every day — Worth doing!
- receive Jukai — Worth doing!
- acquaint myself with the periodic table — Worth doing!
- take a vow of silence — Worth doing!
- go an entire day without speaking — Worth doing!
- write a poem — Worth doing!
- get SuperCheered!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
Listened to:
- Plays Mozart — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Persona — Worth consuming!
- Chess Players — Worth consuming!
- Private Property — Worth consuming!
→ See more from May
June
Added to 43 Things:
- Get rid of my TV — completed about 1 month later
- learn to do a headstand
- Get a job I like
Completed on 43 Things:
- enjoy the sunshine — Worth doing!
- support oxfam — Worth doing!
- Stay hungry. Stay foolish — Worth doing!
- educate myself about climate change — Worth doing!
- recieve 5000 cheers — Worth doing!
- Give 7000 cheers — Worth doing!
- Get a Shiatsu massage — Worth doing!
- use the bus — Worth doing!
- listen to flamenco — Worth doing!
- prepare for the end of the human era — Worth doing!
- revive the eyeball brigade and have another eyeball avatar week! — Not worth doing
- Wish MelissaThinksAgain a Negative-Energy-Free Birthday December 10 — Worth doing!
- report a very similar goal
- review how I use 43T — Worth doing!
- live and study in London — Not worth doing
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Visited on 43 Places:
- John Muir Way — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Listened to:
- Bryter Layter — Worth consuming!
- Five Leaves Left — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Bringing Up Baby
- Au revoir les enfants - criterion collection — Worth consuming!
- Spirit of the Beehive - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Fate of a Man (aka The Destiny of a Man)(Sud’ba cheloveka)(S. Bondarchuk, 1959) — Worth consuming!
→ See more from June
July
Added to 43 Things:
- spend three hours per week acquiring/consolidating computer skills
- spend two hours per week playing Go electronically
- listen to Bob Dylan's theme time radio hour — completed 29 days later
- spend some time each Saturday AM doing something towards basic proofreading
- find out about anarchism — completed 23 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
- spend less time on my computer — Worth doing!
- read some SF — Worth doing!
- fall asleep on a plane — Worth doing!
- get my email under control — Worth doing!
- try Marmite — Not worth doing
- watch fireworks — Worth doing!
- book a flight to India — Worth doing!
- get some lamps which use energy efficient light bulbs — Not worth doing
- adopt an orphan chimpanzee — Worth doing!
- visit Earthship Fife — Worth doing!
- visit the Prado museum in Madrid — Worth doing!
- visit The Natural History Museum London — Worth doing!
- visit the Joan Miro museum in Barcelona — Worth doing!
- visit the Gulbenkian museum in Lisbon — Worth doing!
- attend an orthodox church service — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
- Be able to explain Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- learn Latin
- read Beckett
- investigate RoR via Locomotive (on OS X)
- spend three hours per week acquiring/consolidating computer skills
- spend two hours per week playing Go electronically
- start an empathy epidemic
- Get an iPhone
- develop a Mac OS X Dashboard Widget
Visited on 43 Places:
- Belle & Herbs — Worth visiting!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
Watched:
- Harold and Maude — Worth consuming!
- Full Moon in Paris — Worth consuming!
- The Cranes are Flying - Criterion Collection
- Japon - Director's Unrated Edition — Worth consuming!
- Land and Freedom (1996. Starring: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Icíar Bollaín) — Worth consuming!
→ See more from July
August
Completed on 43 Things:
- listen to Bob Dylan's theme time radio hour — Worth doing!
- do volunteer work — Worth doing!
- use more yiddish words — Worth doing!
- find out about anarchism — Worth doing!
- Give 5000 cheers
- listen to more early Bob Dylan — Worth doing!
- read a blog on a regular basis — Worth doing!
- start going to the pub for a pint — Worth doing!
- learn about zen buddhism — Worth doing!
- Wish 99 an Enthusiastic Energetic Birthday August 17th — Worth doing!
- get a regular salary — Worth doing!
- share quotes — Worth doing!
- learn about buddhism — Worth doing!
- post my 43Things entries to my blog — Not worth doing
- see some fauna — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
Read:
- Sunset Song (Dodo Press) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- Self Portrait
- Bob Dylan — Worth consuming!
- The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Smiles Of A Summer Night - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Bob Dylan - No Direction Home — Worth consuming!
