Thing 40

40. Post 5 fics to MakeBelieve for Past Fiction Revisited Day

The purpose of this thing was to post some of my older stories to the Wonderful World of Make Believe archive. Last month, I added more than 50 of my stories to the archive. I didn't post them specifically on Past Fiction Revisited Day through the list. Instead, I skipped the list and added them directly to the archive, so I could format them as I liked.

My page at WWOMB: http://www.squidge.org/~peja/cgi-bin/viewuser.php?uid=1835

I've had lots of comments and kudos on my stories since then. My stories are where I want them, after hours of uploading and formatting, so I'm going to mark this one as finished.

Thing 43

43. Write 2 BookCrossing articles

I wrote one article on 5/19/11
Top 10 Things You Might Have Seen at the BCinDC Convention: http://www.bookcrossing.com/news/667

Progress: 1/2

Thing 45

45. Clear 25 books off my BookCrossing TBR Shelves

I've got another 6 to report read:
6. Don't Blame Me Vol 1 by Yugi Yamada
7. You & Harujion by Keiko Kinoshita
8. Same Cell Organism by Sumomo Yumeka
9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
10. Othello by Toui Hasumi
11. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
12. Heat Wave by "Richard Castle"
13. Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Progress: 13/25 (more than halfway done!)

Also, to ammend this, audiobooks I get from BookCrossers don't count, because I keep them on another shelf of TBR.

Thing 47

47. Get a book journaled for all states I don't already have books in

Here's one that ended up in Alaska: The River Gods

Looks like I got one for Arkansas, thanks to crrcookie: Majestic

And one in Idaho thanks to the convention & melydia: Rumble Fish

I still need: Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming. Not too bad!

Map of states my books have been journaled in:

visited 43 states (86%)
Create your own visited map of The United States

Thing 48

48. Get to 4,000 snarfs at Markeroni

I'm currently at 2,185 snarfs at Markeroni. I haven't logged any of the Gettysburg ones (several hundred, easily). And still have a smattering of others to log from various adventures.

Thing 66

66. Finish watching Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis

On 7/3/11 I started watching Stargate SG-1 from the very beginning again. I'm currently a little more than halfway through the 4th season. So I'm making very good progress! I look forward to finally finishing the series and getting through Atlantis (I've only seen Season 1) as well. (I've seen every episode of Universe, so at least I've got that under my belt)

Thing 68

68. Watch the Academy Award Best Picture nominees each year (2010, 2011, 2012)

I've watched:
Avatar
The Blind Side
Up
The Fighter
Inception
The Social Network (twice)
Toy Story 3

I've not watched:
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Bastards
Precious
A Serious Man
Up in the Air
Black Swan
The Kids are All Right
The King's Speech
127 Hours
True Grit
Winter's Bone

I've got a lot of catching up to do!

500 Days

Yesterday/today marks the halfway point, because 7/25 apparently was 500 days in. Yikes! I am so very far behind in my goals!

Progress so far:
Finished- 31
In Progress- 22
FAIL- 1

Argh! My busy life has once again thwarted my new goal of 2 Do Nothing But Read Days from June to June each year. Bah! I'll have to do an extra one some time to make up for it. Now I just need to find days in which to do it. Come on, life, cooperate with me!

Otherwise, it doesn't look good for me. I should have 50 finished by now at the halfway mark and definitely don't. But it does look like, at this pace, I'll accomplish more during List #2 than I did for List #1, so I am proud of myself for that. I hope I can keep up the pace and get some more done soon, though.

Topic breakdown [completed / in progress / total]:
Monthly Projects [13 / 2 / 33]
Writing [2 / 3 /8]
Hobbies [3 / 9 / 16]
Visit/Travel [3 / 0 / 6]
Fannish [4 / 5 / 14]
Personal/Home [4 / 2 / 15]
Philanthropic [1 / 1 / 7]
Misc [1 / 0 / 2]