With one full year of graduate school under my belt (YAY), I am setting some goals for the summer. I thought I’d risk public shaming and put them out here on the world of the internet, so that the four people who read this can bug me about them at their leisure. Sound good? Excellent! They are roughly in order of least to most farfetched and highest priority.
1) Pass my German class.
2) Pass my Syriac class.
3) Not starve.
4) Not accrue credit card debt in order not to starve (this will be accomplished by making more money! And spending less on frivolities!)
5) Go back through my Hebrew textbook from 11th grade and relearn all the vocabulary, the paradigms, do the exercises, etc. Basically re-learn Hebrew, but for real this time.
6) Go running with the dog at least 3 times a week.
7) Eat a healthier diet (this is the point at which we enter the Land of Wishful Thinking.)
8 ) Hang out with friends a lot while still accomplishing goals 1 through 7.
9) Do some creative writing.
10) Read books that are dense and intellectually fulfilling as well as fluff.
11) Shop at the farmer’s market more often (i.e. ever).
12) Read all the school-related articles and books that I wanted to read but didn’t have time to over the school year.
13) Write my Personal Statement for graduate school applications (okay, I actually DO have to do this one).
14) Research graduate schools thoroughly, impartially, and not as haphazardly as the last time around.
15) Go to bed and wake up earlier.
16) Finish the quilt.
Whew. I feel so virtuous now. And by virtuous I mean “tired.” I’m going to go read a trashy novel instead of studying Hebrew (so much for resolutions 5 and 10…).
EDIT: Goal 17: Blog more.
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May 27, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Mary Frances
YAY you are back! This sounds like an impressive, yet totally realistic and do-able list of goals. While you relearn Hebrew, I will relearn Greek. And we will both do it for real this time AND keep each other accountable. YES?? (because I like to be dependent on as many Davenport women as possible). I also am on the same page re: going to bed/waking up earlier. Keep in mind that I am blogging and reading blogs at 11 pm. Ahem. Ugh number 12. Me too. Also, is the trashy novel you’re about to read “Twilight,” by any chance? Because mine is. I’m reading Mrs. Dalloway as well. Twilight always seems to win at bedtime/all the time, except when I have to read in public (then Mrs. Dalloway wins. Because I really am that vain).
May 28, 2009 at 9:53 am
lovethequestions
YES we WILL keep each other accountable. I feel bound to tell you that I am TWO chapters into the Hebrew textbook now. I am flying. After today it will be THREE chapters. I can say, “the boy and the old man are near the river.” Twilight isn’t what I’m currently reading, but it’s definitely on my list for the summer–I have to borrow a friend’s copies because they are always checked out of the library. And, of course you take your least-trashy novel with you in public. Duh. Same reason why when people ask me what I’m reading I’ll say “Oh, War and Peace” rather than, “Oh, a romance novel set in the 17th century.” Intellectual vanity is the ultimate vanity.