Things to Do
by V.E. on December 6th, 2011
filed under to do
part 1023543645. lol. sorta.
Seriously, though:
response emails to Jay Brown & Katie W.
Yaoi-Con 2011 schwag post
figure out schedule for Yaoi Press review copies
Ascent from Darkness review
12 Days of Anime
funny/not funny comic strip commentary
write out four reasons
Dad’s ham thing post
Katie’s wedding post
beach with John post
Pagan Pride post
Tin Man and review
I’m sticking this to the top of the page for the time being and will be updating until I’ve got most of the list crossed out. We’ll see if I can do it. I’m kind of overwhelmed looking at it like this, actually, but if I don’t write it down on a list, I’ll forget things and I’ll drop the ball somewhere, which I’d rather not if I can help it, you know? Maybe if I just think about things two at a time and ignore the rest until those are finished, etc??
I’m not gonna lie, here, people. It’s going to get worse before it gets better. This list doesn’t even include the scheduled stuff I have to do. Hahahahahaha. HA HA HA. I think my brain might just shut down on me and refuse to work anymore.
DONE
—on 06 Dec.
email comic artist
cull/fix amazon.com wishlist
—on 07 Dec.
cycle battery
email Stanley the Whale editor
holiday donation
balance checkbook
—on 08-11 Dec.
finish psychology book reading (end of day 12/8)
write out my own holiday wishlist
—on 12 Dec.
Sleeping With Money review paragraph
holiday_wishes community
flight to NYC
—between 13 & 22 Dec.
English 103 final 3 critiques (midday 12/13)
get to-be-mailed presents ready for shipping
English 127 Children’s Literature survey
Twilight: Breaking Dawn recap
—25 & 26 Dec.
Pandora Hearts review
figure out something for Princess Tutu
Well, hello there.
by V.E. on January 29th, 2011
Holy shit I totally ditched this journal, didn’t I? What the hell, right? Feels like I might never be a real adult. Godsdamnit, I swear I’m going to do something useful this weekend.
You want a To Do list, do you? Well, fine. No promises, though.
Payperpost entry.
Letter to Christopher Meloni.
12 Moments in Anime 2010. (I haven’t finished this already? uuugh.)
Book of Mormon. (I’ll explain later. Maybe.)
Finish Aleister Crowley.
Left at the Altar for Thomas Nelson.
Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers for Elevate Difference.
Answer my goddamn emails and empty out my inbox. Seriously.
Figure out what to do with all my unposted/unfinished posts. Like maybe have a not-too-ambitious posting schedule or something.
Fucking hell. Having to be adult all the time time. Ugh. I’m so not into it.
To-Do-orama
by V.E. on June 18th, 2010
filed under anime/manga, to do
A lot has happened in the short time since I last posted my To Do list.
DONE
—finish (and finish reviewing) CANAAN
—figure out what to do with the music I don’t listen to
—write review of Captive Queen
—wash/dry/fold laundry
I’m dropping CANAAN and here’s why. I dumped a bunch of the music I don’t listen to regularly; read more about it here. I wrote my review of Captive Queen no problem, like I expected, except it was 310 words over the 500 word limit. I sent it to my editor anyway. My second load of laundry is drying right now, and I’ve already folded the first load, so as soon as that’s done, it’s done (until I run out of clothes again… it’s a never ending cycle).
NOT DONE
—clean/declutter desk top
—watch/review Pocahontas and The Sky Crawlers
—watch/review Cowboy Bebop, Princess Tutu, Trapeze, and Mnemosyne
—burn anime/movies/etc. onto DVDs for safekeeping
Still have to get around to cleaning off my desk top. My actual desk top, I mean, not the desktop on the computer screen. But I soooo don’t wanna. UGH. I took Precious of the list of movies I want to watch because I just don’t think I’m in the mood for angst. I’ve been putting off watching it until I’m in the mood, but it’s been over four months, so I don’t think my feelings about that are going to change. Still have a list of anime, as usual, though I already said I won’t be posting episodic entries about any of them. In light of the very little hard drive space I have left (despite ditching a lot of the music I don’t listen to), I’ve added a note to burn the media onto DVDs that hasn’t already been burned as such. My computer has a problem recognizing DVDs, though, since it’s so old (I think), so it could be a challenge. We’ll see.
Another look at the TO DO list
by V.E. on June 17th, 2010
filed under anime/manga, personal, recap/review, to do
Oh joy. Just so I don’t forget what I’m supposed to be doing every minute of every day. ::sigh:: I seem to have this ongoing To Do list of things I should be doing at any given moment. In fact, the list gets longer and longer, no matter how much I knock off of it (not like I’m knocking much off, but that’s beside the point).
DONE (since last time)
—figure out which poems to show professor
—figure out cosplay for Anime Expo
—finish review of Return of the Joker: here!
Notes: Figuring out which poems to show my professor is, at this point, kind of moot because I’ll be starting a creative writing class with him on Monday in which he’ll see all forms of my writing, poetry and non. I’ve given up (sadly) on having a decent cosplay for Anime Expo, so I’m not going to do anything since I think that having a half-assed cosplay is often worse than having none at all. I’ll talk more about Anime Expo in future post. I actually really did do one of the things on the DONE list: I wrote my review of Return of the Joker finally!
(still) NOT DONE
—clean/declutter desk top
—finish (and finish reviewing) CANAAN (dammit!)
—watch/review Pocahontas, Precious, and The Sky Crawlers
—figure out what to do with the music I don’t listen to (delete? save for later? eh?)
—watch/review Cowboy Bebop, Princess Tutu, Trapeze, and Mnemosyne
—write review of Captive Queen
—wash/dry/fold laundry
Notes: Cleaning and decluttering my desktop requires me to be up in my room, awake, and willing to move stuff around. Ugh. Don’t wanna. As for CANAAN, I actually have a Plan. The Plan is that I bust through the rest of it this week and kick out those reviews and BE DONE with it before I have any serious homework in my creative writing class. The three movies are going to have to wait until I’m bored enough and don’t have anything else that I’ve already begun that needs finishing. Ditching the music I don’t listen to can probably be done in three or four hours (or less, if I don’t actually listen to the songs before I delete them so as to avoid deleting something I may actually want). I’ll have to schedule some time this weekend or next weekend to do that so I can free up some space on my hard drive.
The anime will also have to wait, though I’ve already decided not to blog it episodically like I am with CANAAN because I’ll be stuck on Cowboy Bebop (or whatever) forever if I do that. I haven’t watched any decent anime in so long because I feel like I’m not doing CANAAN justice by not doing what I said I was going to do, which is blog each episode. Ugh; not doing that again if I can help it. And yes, I added Mnemosyne because I read a good review of it and it looks interesting. We shall see. I also finished reading Captive Queen for the Feminist Review and now have to write 300-500 words. Shouldn’t be too hard, as long as I sit down and do it. As for washing/drying/folding the laundry, well… that’s something that just keeps coming up no matter what else I do. I guess I could just not wear clothes to avoid having to wash dirty clothes, but I don’t think even my family would be okay with that.
PRIORITY: (1) write review of Captive Queen, (2) finish (and finish reviewing) CANAAN, (3) figure out what to do with the music I don’t listen to, and (4) wash/dry/fold laundry.
Yes, I know
by V.E. on May 26th, 2010
filed under anime/manga, personal, recap/review, to do
Remember this to do list? Yeah, well, let’s see how much I’ve completed in the last two and a half weeks.
DONE
—be social with family (ugh)
—wash/dry/fold laundry [which will have to be done again soon anyway. ugh]
—write report/paper on Ai (an American poet who died in March)
NOT DONE
—figure out which poems to show professor
—clean/declutter desk top
—figure out cosplay for Anime Expo
—finish (and finish reviewing) CANAAN (dammit!)
—watch/review Pocahontas, Precious, and The Sky Crawlers
—finish review of Return of the Joker (which I started like month ago! agh)
—figure out what to do with the music I don’t listen to (delete? save for later? eh?)
—watch/review Cowboy Bebop, Princess Tutu, and Trapeze
A few thoughts: I’ve gotta just give myself permission to give up on CANAAN or else just marathon through it because there’s no way I’m ever going to finish at this rate. At the top of my list (along with CANAAN) should be finishing the damn Return of Joker review because a friend recommended it to me like three months ago and I watched it like two months ago and I should just bang it out and be done with it so I don’t have to think about it anymore. As for the movies: I just want to watch Pocahontas because I’m feeling nostalgic; I’m not sure I want to sit through Precious if it’s as depressing as I’ve heard; and I heard that The Sky Crawlers was the best anime movie of 2009 so how can I turn that down right? Well, none of those are my top priorities, obviously, or I’d've made more progress. ::sigh::
Figuring out what to do with my music is just a matter of steeling myself and dumping large portions of files I no longer listen to under the assumption that I won’t miss them when they’re gone. (I guess I could always re-download them if I do miss them, right?) And I’ll be the laughing stock if I don’t watch Cowboy Bebop, apparently, because it’s one of the best animes ever made. ::sigh:: As for the other two animes: they’re on the list on recommendation or personal interest, and I’ve downloaded them already, so I might as well watch them eventually. Thing is, people seem to think that my watching anime is a waste of my time or something, so they think it’s okay to interrupt me and/or be asshats about it.
Also, I’ve still got to declutter my desktop so I can move my computer back upstairs and gather the courage to show my professor (with whom I’ll be taking another class this summer—this time an actual writing class) some of my poetry. There’s potential that he might publish a poem or two in the school’s literary journal. And Anime Expo is creeping up on me, so I either have to find someone to make me a costume for cosplaying, or I have to just scrap the whole idea and go in normal (boring) clothing. Hopefully, that doesn’t happen. Booooorrrrrring.
Honestly, I’ve spent most of my time writing this stupid critical paper on Ai (which I finished early yesterday and is due today, Wednesday, at 10:30 local time) and watching Nostalgia Critic and Nostalgia Chick movie reviews. I need to stop watching reviews of movies (TV shows, whatever) and start watching stuff to review myself. Since, you know, that’s all this journal seems good for anymore. … the Dr. Horrible review notwithstanding.
To Do
by V.E. on May 6th, 2010
filed under to do
(haha yes, I have a category tag for “To Do”)
—be social with family (ugh)
—figure out which poems to show professor
—clean/declutter desk top
—wash/dry/fold laundry
—figure out cosplay for Anime Expo
—finish (and finish reviewing) CANAAN (dammit!)
—watch/review Pocahontas, Precious, and The Sky Crawlers
—finish review of Return of Joker (which I started like month ago! agh)
—figure out what to do with the music I don’t listen to (delete? save for later? eh?)
—watch/review Cowboy Bebop, Princess Tutu, and Trapeze
—write report/paper on Ai (an American poet who died in March)
also, this icon is 100% me right now. must write something gooood. gah|fail.
Week of 14 September
by V.E. on September 14th, 2009
filed under anime/manga, health, personal, to do, writing
Send Katie’s chocolate to Johnny
Manuscript (haha; as if one word really covers it)
Daughters of the American Revolution
Daughters of the Republic of Texas
CANAAN eps. 3-11
Driver’s license
Frame for 501 picture
Do something with tabs
Fanfiction
Finish The White Horse
Conversation w/ Phil Brady?
As Easy As Lying
Blue Cross NY membership
The Lace Reader
Lace review
CANAAN ep. 2
———
Last updated: Friday, 18 September 2009, 9:05 AM PT
Continuance of this post.
