So as the solstice approaches and with it the “official” beginning of summer it is time to reflect on summer goals. Since I have never left the educational schedule in my work life I still put a lot of emphasis on what I can accomplish during the summer that I wish I could do during the school year.
I’ll post my goals in the comments section — if you wish, please do the same.
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by J.E.
Filed under: Hollow Men
1) Fill up a page with drawings every day. Whatever drawing skill I have ever had sits fallow most of the year and so it is not there for me when I want it. Not to go into it too much but my daily drawings pretty much stopped after I took Mr Thomas’ art class in 6th grade. I still regret this failing of will on my part.
2) Finish the living room and hallways. New molding. Slate in the hallway. Bamboo in the living room. Paint on the wall. Ugh.
3) Go running three times a week. Yes, I’ve finally succumbed to running. I just don’t have time for any other form of exercise and now that I’m sitting a lot more at work I need the exercise. Running is cheap and fast.
4) Cook more — eat out less.
5) Take more photos and post them on Flickr.
1) Walking and running/jogging. I have been so far successful at waking up at 6 am to do this for the past nine days. Maintain and increase.
2) Cook more. Eat out less. We’ve been better about this recently, and our garden is already providing us with a lot of lettuce, and before too long, kale, broccoli, peppers, tomatoes.
3) Eat less in general. As with above, this is improving as part of an overall goal to lose weight and establish healthier habits.
4) Continue working on the house: cleaning, organizing, gardening, and plan to put in a small patio in our back yard next month.
5) Work ahead on fall course.
6) Have baby.
After that, all bets are off.
1) Get off my Cobblestone Magazine assignment on time (if they don’t want any changes, I just managed to do this).
2) Finish work for my SVS kids book on time.
3) Finish the two books I have started reading.
4) Get fifty more pages written on my latest novel-in-progress.
5) Get some of my ideas for drawing and paintings out. (J.E. if you can fill a page with drawings every day of the summer my hat is off to you. It’s not the quantity that you will likely wrestle with, it’s the consistency.)
6) Get things framed and ready for my fall show including preparing the talk as well as for the UWEC faculty show.
7) Spend some good quality time with wife and kids including continuing to read every night.
9) Get more prepared for the fall semester than I was last year.
10) Send off a few query letters. (it’s actually rather doubtful that I will do this, but hey…)
11) Have fun with my parents when they come and have fun with James and Sarah when they visit in August.
12) I’d like to eat more healthy, really, I would, but I just snarfed down a Peanut Butter Cup Mix-In from the Coldstone Creamery so I really would feel like a hypocrite listing that, though I do want to take longer and more frequent walks with Agnes.
13) Recognize my own limitations.
14) Catch some thunderheads at sunset.