Easing Back Home/Returning Goals
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learnteachBack in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Redskins, Washington DC. ANd I want to clean the streets and do the laundry and
all of those things that one wants to do to an American city after coming from a tour of European ones.
Like, provide a worthwhile phone service to travellers. The airport pay phones don't work well at all, and are optimized as a system to eat quarters, rather than provide access. All for a company who's management all have the same last name. And don't staff the customer service center very well.
Like, figure out some way of setting up the meeting areas so that they aren't completely blocked when planes are arriving. I couldn't even figure out what was the way out, and when I did, I had to push through crowds of people waiting for others. A series of meeting points? A series of lounges? A big pie shaped area? All have good/bad issues.
BUT ANYWAY, the vacation is winding down. Time to strike into new habits before the old ones completely re-assert. As patsmor sez, put the goals out there.
GOALS: 1. Finish all the promised poetry owed (3 pieces) before Mist's Investiture on November 11.
2. Pull all the pictures off the cameras, into a computer, and into an album, by November 6th. Have the ones going to friends out by November 18th.
3. Thank you notes for the trip out by November 10th.
4. On the 12 week program starting Nov. 1st (yes, Beth, again!)
5. Take the GRE before December.
6. Review 10 programs before December.
7. Spreadsheet the finances by Nov. 12th.
8. Work out every day;
9. Get out of the house by 9 every day. Getting out into the yard works.
Ok, enough for now.
Longer term goals later.
all of those things that one wants to do to an American city after coming from a tour of European ones.
Like, provide a worthwhile phone service to travellers. The airport pay phones don't work well at all, and are optimized as a system to eat quarters, rather than provide access. All for a company who's management all have the same last name. And don't staff the customer service center very well.
Like, figure out some way of setting up the meeting areas so that they aren't completely blocked when planes are arriving. I couldn't even figure out what was the way out, and when I did, I had to push through crowds of people waiting for others. A series of meeting points? A series of lounges? A big pie shaped area? All have good/bad issues.
BUT ANYWAY, the vacation is winding down. Time to strike into new habits before the old ones completely re-assert. As patsmor sez, put the goals out there.
GOALS: 1. Finish all the promised poetry owed (3 pieces) before Mist's Investiture on November 11.
2. Pull all the pictures off the cameras, into a computer, and into an album, by November 6th. Have the ones going to friends out by November 18th.
3. Thank you notes for the trip out by November 10th.
4. On the 12 week program starting Nov. 1st (yes, Beth, again!)
5. Take the GRE before December.
6. Review 10 programs before December.
7. Spreadsheet the finances by Nov. 12th.
8. Work out every day;
9. Get out of the house by 9 every day. Getting out into the yard works.
Ok, enough for now.
Longer term goals later.
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Date: 2004-10-25 01:55 pm (UTC)But what you might want to check is whether a representative sample of the programs you're considering actually want the GRE (my current program didn't, for example, which is a bummer - my GRE scores are much better than my undergrad GPA....)
Good luck on the goals, though!!
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Date: 2004-10-25 05:30 pm (UTC)I just sing it.
Date: 2004-10-25 07:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-26 12:07 pm (UTC)It's only sad when your fifteen-year-old is doing homework
Date: 2004-10-26 09:04 pm (UTC)(Oh, that's not true. I did suggest he look in the back seat of the car for his lost calculator, and it turned out to be the right place.)