i have been promising a to-do list for the summer since mid-April. As i now only have four days left working this job that permits incessant surfing and studying (i have been here an hour and answered the phones once!) i will finally provide you all with the list of things i had to do and have done.

Academic

Email Grad Schools

Pick ones to apply to

Visit U of T

Write Letter of Intent

Choose writing sample

Get an appt for the GREs

Study for and take the GREs [September 1st, 2006]

Read 1/3 of 490 syllabus

Read Boccaccio’s Decameron

Finish Foucault’s Discipline and Punish

Create calendar of funding and application deadlines

Review for ITAL 202

Take and get a STELLAR grade in ITAL 202

Extra-Curricular

Research and purchase new hosting for the VOID

Move the website

Research and write one article of online content for next issue

Email subscribers of old site to inform them of change and put up a redirect

Organize and attend Arrivederci Ilya month

Figure out what it means to be assistant to the President of the Liberal Arts Society and do that

Make media-kit for the VOID

Print copies of mk and give to marketing people at 9600 Meilleur

Personal

Scrapbook all photos and tickets

Make an attempt to learn to draw

Finish crocheting the blanket

Plant and maintain new garden

Lose 25lbs

Cook something new every week

Blog at least 4 times a week

Read Nabokov’s short stories and Pnin, A Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, Othello, and Auerbach’s Mimesis

See friends as often as possible!

See at least 75% of the fireworks

Go to the Fringe, Jazz Fest and Comedy Fest at least once

Visit Veronica

Plan road trip to Boston in October

Flirt!

Financial

Find a new job

Work and be nice

Save money (70% of overall earnings as a goal)

Budget for the upcoming year

Will update as things are added, completed or removed. See sidebar.