Monday Progress Report: 101 in 1001
Mood
Amused
My second week was no less stressful than the first, but for different reasons. There was a miscommunication between one of my clients and his partner that resulted in a mock up being confused for a finished site and so we had to rush to finish an entire web site in only three days. From mock up, to approved design, to writing up the copy for the client, to finished project, whew! That took up the greater part of my week. As a result I didn't end up getting nearly as much done as I would have liked.
35) Read all unread books in personal collection (not including reference, text books, supplemental).
I only ended up getting two books read this week. I am in a long stretch of boring books that I am determined to get through. I am just very glad that I decided to reward myself and, for every five books that I get through, I get myself a book off of my wish list, whether through book mooch, amazon, or other means. It has been a god send in a dearth of good reading, like I'm experiencing now.
40) Go out on a date with Matthew once every other week.
Our first date ended up being a stay at home date due to the heavy rain that has been bombarding Chicago all weekend. We watched the BBC's Pride and Prejudice (the 1995 rendition). It definitely had it's differences from the 1985 one which we already own. The 1995 one was more human (the actors expressed a wider range of emotions and touched more on the improper scenes of Wickam's debauchery, etc in Pride and Prejudice). It also had children, which 1985 lacked, and depictions of other classes than the rich and the lesser rich. And yet, at the same time, Lizzie's parents were depicted as more inhuman and selfish than they were in the 1985 movie.
In the 1985 movie it was all for humor and the characters were more like characitures of themselves. Yes, the father was distant and spent more time laughing at his family than raising them, yes the mother was thoughtless and simple, but they still clearly loved their children, if not each other. In 1995 they were more in earnest and the mother appeared far more self centered then I like to think of her as. In the 1985, yes, she was silly, but she still loved her daughters and had their back, so to speak.
Anyway, enough of the review. We had a lot of fun eating popcorn snuggled up on the couch and, as it was a made for TV Series that we started late, we ended up staying up until nearly 2AM. It was still lots of fun though.
53) Finish unpacking from the move.
We got no where with this this week. I managed to sort through a stack of some 100+ CDs we had. Mostly programs, old course CDs, burned CDs, back ups, music, games, and more Linux versions than you could shake a stick at! As for the rest. Well... we did get several things listed on Freecycle and we shipped off several books that had been hanging around to people on Book Mooch. We also got our other bulletin board up, but Matt's clothes still haven't been sorted and his art supplies have still conquered the dining room table. Alas. Maybe this week.
66) Clean out my inbox.
Made some progress on this. Managed to get through 2002 and 2003. The strange emails I came across in my work though. There were old emails from my high school teachers and principal, stuff from the reporters who did articles on me when I graduated, stuff from Scholastic from when I won that award for my senior writing portfolio. There were strange forwards from friends, and even stranger memes from the same. One was so idiosyncratic that I had no idea who it was from and couldn't guess even after reading a whole survey about them. Well, two years down, only five to go.
68) Finish and organize this list.
I made two more goals this week. Only 25 more to go. Any ideas at all would be greatly appreciated.
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