tamaribu in 2008

2008, so far, is 98% worth living.

In 2005, tamaribu did 22 things, went 69 places, met 1 person, and consumed 64 products.

Years: 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Use Quicken
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. knit a tea cosy — Worth doing!
  2. read a book a week — Worth doing!
  3. cancel cable TV — Worth doing!
  4. read my library books — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Exeter
  2. Somerville
  3. Kekaha — Worth visiting!
  4. Ikebukuro — Worth visiting!
  5. Kobe — Worth visiting!
  6. Los Angeles — Worth visiting!
  7. Cambridge — Worth visiting!
  8. Houston — Worth visiting!
  9. St. Louis — Worth visiting!
  10. New York City — Worth visiting!
  11. Lafayette
  12. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — Worth visiting!
  13. Four Corners
  14. Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center — Worth visiting!
  15. Chicago — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Geek Love: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance — Worth consuming!
  2. The French Connection — Worth consuming!
  3. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room — Worth consuming!
  4. An Inconvenient Truth — Worth consuming!
  5. The Wire - The Complete Fourth Season — Worth consuming!
  6. Ratatouille — Worth consuming!
  7. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (movie) — Worth consuming!
  8. Hearts of Darkness - A Filmmaker's Apocalypse — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. fix my sewing machine — completed about 1 month later
  2. Elect Barack Obama president
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. be brave — Worth doing!
  2. vote on 5 February 2008 - Super Tuesday ! — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Materials & Applications: Architecture And Landscape Research
  2. American Visionary Arts Museum
  3. City Museum
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Cafe Tropical — Worth visiting!
  2. The Galleria — Worth visiting!
  3. North Carolina — Worth visiting!
  4. Berkeley Springs State Park — Worth visiting!
  5. Washington Dulles International Airport — Worth visiting!
  6. Middletown — Worth visiting!
  7. Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
  8. Key Largo — Worth visiting!
  9. Everglades National Park — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Economy of Cities — Worth consuming!
  2. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things — Worth consuming!
  3. Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Sweetheart of the Rodeo — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Donnie Darko - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Weather Underground — Worth consuming!
  3. Burden of Dreams - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  4. My Neighbor Totoro — Worth consuming!
  5. Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Clean up my garden — completed 2 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. stop eating in the car — Worth doing!
  2. replace my bicycle — Worth doing!
  3. fix my sewing machine — Worth doing!
  4. get my work life in order
  5. Go for a medical checkup — Worth doing!
  6. write regularly — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. do crunches every day
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Manual Archive — Worth visiting!
  2. Sa Rit Gol — Worth visiting!
  3. Masa — Worth visiting!
Watched:
  1. The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  2. Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Agronomist — Worth consuming!
  4. The Last Detective - Series 2 — Worth consuming!
  5. Talladega Nights - The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Flight of the Conchords — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. meet the neighbors — completed 14 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. take naps — Worth doing!
  2. be more honest — Worth doing!
  3. organize my recipes
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. reupholster my chair
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Ganna Walska Lotusland
Listened to:
  1. In Rainbows — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Devil and Daniel Johnston — Worth consuming!
  2. 49 Up — Worth consuming!
  3. Favela Rising (Ws Sub) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Ice Storm - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. practice discardia
  2. make my summer reading list
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. meet the neighbors — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. record my dreams
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Natural History Museum — Worth visiting!
  2. Bloom Cafe — Worth visiting!
  3. Farmlab — Worth visiting!
  4. Los Angeles River — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. the fire engine that disappeared — Worth consuming!
  2. Killer in the Rain — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Five Obstructions — Worth consuming!
  2. Arrested Development - Season One — Worth consuming!
  3. Arrested Development - Season Two — Worth consuming!
  4. Arrested Development - Season 3 — Worth consuming!
  5. Friday Night Lights - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  6. The Fall — Worth consuming!
  7. Friday Night Lights: The Second Season — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Carrier — Worth consuming!

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June

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Clean up my garden — Worth doing!
  2. visit the LA ecovillage — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Kula Botanical Gardens
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival — Worth visiting!
  2. Salt Pond Beach — Worth visiting!
  3. Salt Pond Park — Worth visiting!
  4. Los Angeles Ecovillage
  5. Kaua'i Museum — Worth visiting!
  6. Palm Springs — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Gilead: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. Sun Storm — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. The Wishes and the Glitch — Worth consuming!
  2. The Philosophy of Time Travel — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. L'orchestra de Piazza Vittorio — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. plot the next move
  2. ride my bike for trips within 3 miles
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. keep a clean house — Worth doing!
  2. refinish my chair. — Worth doing!
  3. Give blood — Worth doing!
  4. get an oil change — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Dia:Beacon
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. MASS MoCA — Worth visiting!
  2. Walden Pond — Worth visiting!
  3. Ingleside Inn — Worth visiting!
  4. Guggenheim Museum — Worth visiting!
  5. New Paltz — Worth visiting!
  6. Poughkeepsie — Worth visiting!
  7. Williamstown — Worth visiting!
  8. Jamaica Plain — Worth visiting!
  9. South Royalton — Worth visiting!
  10. Museum Of Fine Arts — Worth visiting!
  11. Maastricht — Worth visiting!
  12. Crane Beach — Worth visiting!
  13. Museum Of The American West — Worth visiting!
  14. Cal-Earth Institute — Worth visiting!
  15. Institute of Contemporary Art — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Paul Oscher
Read:
  1. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius — Worth consuming!
  2. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America — Worth consuming!
  3. Train: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  4. Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Kingpin — Worth consuming!
  2. Breaking Away — Worth consuming!
  3. That Obscure Object of Desire - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  4. Penn & Teller - Bullsh*t! - The First Season — Worth consuming!
  5. The Road to Guantanamo — Worth consuming!
  6. Into the Wild — Worth consuming!
  7. Kit Kittredge - An American Girl [Theatrical Release] — Worth consuming!

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August

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Wingaersheek Beach — Worth visiting!
  2. Woodman's of Essex — Worth visiting!
  3. Main Street Museum — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Soul Circus — Worth consuming!
  2. Culture and Imperialism — Worth consuming!
  3. The Overlook — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Illinoise — Worth consuming!
  2. The Builders and the Butchers — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Tropic Thunder
  2. The Dark Knight — Worth consuming!
  3. F is for Fake — Worth consuming!

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