So in an attempt to get back on the Getting Things Done train, and to celebrate today's date of 11-11-11 (numerical alliteration, whee!) this weekend's open thread theme is Things You Want To Do! Here's how it works: You post the Many Awesome Things you want to do in the comments section, and then I promise to post my list on Monday. Deal? Deal!
Some various questions to get you started/inspired:
- What do you want to do with Your Life? (easy questions first! yuk yuk)
- The next five years? Fifteen?
- The next 15 minutes?
- Where do you want to be ten years from now?
- What do you want to do this weekend?
- What do you want to do before you die*?
- What is your biggest, baddest most secretest talent you wish you had but don't?
*Oh my my, how things have changed since 2006.
In the next 5 minutes, I plan to leave a really witty comment here. Did I acheive my goale?! Only time will tell.
ReplyDeleteJust the last two: I wish I played the piano closer to the standard I try to set for myself. I'm working on it, but it's partly a matter of unlearning wrong techniques, and that ain't easy.
ReplyDeleteWhat I want before I die is to be forgiven by someone I hurt selfishly and gratuitously 44 years ago. I've asked; hasn't happened. I absolutely deserve the person's bitterness but I'd like not to carry it to my grave, or hers, whichever. Well, you can't always get what you want.
bradley - that depends on your definition of really witty. I hereby award you several points on a 1-10 point scale. "Several" is open to interpretation.
ReplyDeletejohn - admirable goals if ever there were any. How long have you been playing?
Long, complicated story. Short version: from age 6 or so to 16 (classical mostly, pretty intensely), jazz to my early 20's, nothing at all for 25 years, came back in my 40's. What I really like is being in a small ensemble with string players or woodwind players: it's like being on a railroad crew was, you're indispensable but inadequate by yourself. If one out of 16 people in the second violin section gets stuck in traffic, OK, do the symphony with 15--even the music critics won't notice. But if the second violinist in a string quartet can't make it, the gig's off. That was one of the things I liked about the kind of jazz I played, too--small groups, synergy, that kind of thing. It's seldom a chore and once in a while it's fuckin' bliss. (The railroad was never that.)
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