save the date!
no, i'm not getting married.
and no, it's not my birthday yet.
through christina's blog today, i discovered a new challenge in a similar vein as my project365.
101 Things to do in 1001 Days.
here's the deal. you make a list of 101 things to accomplish, from planting a garden to traveling to australia . . . the only rules are that the task must be quantitative and specific ('being nice' can't really be measured as easily as 'being nice to the mother-in-law on thanksgiving'), and within reach. the goal? to complete the tasks in the time allotted. the length of the challenge allows for tasks requiring advance planning, like visiting australia. (and no, that's not going on my list. yet.)
1001 days works out to be approximately 2.75 years. sounds a lot longer when described in years, huh.
i thought about when would be a good time to start such an intensive project. do i just jump in and make the start / end dates arbitrary, or should i plan it a little more specifically? here's some of the start / end date combinations i thought of.
April 4, 2008 - December 31, 2010 (ending on new year's eve)
July 20, 2008 - April 17, 2011 (ending on my 30th birthday - eeeeek!)
January 4, 2008 - October 1, 2010 (starting today)
April 17, 2008 - January 13, 2011 (starting on my 27th birthday)
in doing all these calculations, i came to the realization that my 30th birthday is exactly 1201 days from today. (well, "today" was January 3rd. it's now past midnight.) that's scary and a half.
i'm leaning towards starting officially on april 4th, to have a good milestone end-date. that also gives me time to make a list. although i'm tempted to make this list on the train tomorrow (today) and start then.
anyone else doing this / planning on doing this in the future? i think it might be fun. and if i can handle project365, i think i can handle this, too.
we'll see. (and of course, i'll be updating it here. what *don't* i update here?)
Comments
I guess I could join in on the fun and tentatively title it "Things to do before I turn 30," but I will have to cut short the total of 1001 days (I think I hit 30 in roughly 919 days).
Now I just need to come up with a few major milestones to pull off before I hit 30.
and on a total non-sequitor, you know it's late when the same episode of Ace of Cakes comes on that you watched back at 10pm.
Very cool. I wonder if I could come up with 101 things that wouldn't either be too easy or too impossible.
Its funny -- the Moody Blues did a song called "22,000 Days" with the lyric "its all you got, its not a lot, its 22000 days". I really liked and was sort of disturbed by it (thinking of many wasted weekend days...). If you do the math, it means you only live to 60, but I think 22000 days has better alliterative properties than 29200 days (which would be 80 years).
i'm sure you can do it!
save the date, kill the time! :)