Life Bingo for 2020
Jan. 10th, 2020 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaETA: How did this get backdated to 3rd of January when I posted it yesterday?? Sorry if it turns up for you again, I didn't know what time to update it to...
I was thinking a bit about these goals, and how they don't really reflect everything that I am doing in life. For example, last year I didn't have any goals about my work, but obviously that's a large part of what I do, it's just that it kind of...happens anyway. And I do a lot of political organizing work that isn't reflected in my goals, because it is such a part of my everyday life. Also, I am choosing not to have a reading goal this year. I will just read whatever I feel like.
Unfinished goals from last year that I aim to do this year:
I was thinking a bit about these goals, and how they don't really reflect everything that I am doing in life. For example, last year I didn't have any goals about my work, but obviously that's a large part of what I do, it's just that it kind of...happens anyway. And I do a lot of political organizing work that isn't reflected in my goals, because it is such a part of my everyday life. Also, I am choosing not to have a reading goal this year. I will just read whatever I feel like.
Unfinished goals from last year that I aim to do this year:
- Try out Marcq St Hilaire's method of determining one's position with a sextant. (I should do this now when it's winter and the sunset comes early.)
- Build a tree platform from pallets and put it in a tree, and then sleep on it.
- Develop my workout and exercise routine. (I actually partly started doing that, what with doing more long local hikes. But I should do more to build strength.)
- Go running 50 times. (Just...keep up with the running, basically.)
- Make a new friend. (I don't expect this to happen every year but I like it as a goal.)
- Go swimming in 20 new lakes/places by the sea. (I always enjoy this goal.)
- Go to one of the Swedish national parks I haven't been to. (I guess eventually I will run out of parks, but no danger of that yet.)
- Do something new. (The wild card!)
- Sleep outdoors (well, in a tent/hammock) 20 nights.
- Go tree climbing eight times.
- Finish and post the Flight of the Heron longfic that is eating my brain. (Was: Write at least three fanfics.)
- Post 5 hours of podfic. (Was: Post 2h of podfic, but I am enthusiastic about podficcing right now and am boldly raising the goal.)
- Don't gain weight. (Was: Lose 2 kg of weight.)
- Go birdwatching at the coast when it's stormy and the pelagic sea birds blow in to the coast. (For this I need a birdwatcher to help me--I have asked a retired former colleague who said he would take me.)
- Do a moss inventory of a 5x5 km square of Skåne. (This is part of a county survey of moss species, and I got myself assigned to a square close to where my sister lives, and the idea is that we can do it together. And no, you don't have to go over the whole area with a fine-toothed comb--there's a method to it.)
- Go on a trip to Estonia and help survey forests there. (This will be a collaboration between my environmental org and people in Estonia.)
- Make lots of gooseberry jam. (I love gooseberry jam, it is my favorite, but when I tried to go pick gooseberries this year they were all picked already. : ( )
- Try out the "flipped classroom" teaching method. (Behold, a work-related goal! I am just now recording videos for this, actually.)
- Get to see the capercaillie or black grouse lekking in the spring. (I have a friend who has promised to take me--this means you have to stay out overnight and be very quiet so as not to disturb the birds.)
- Focus on learning more about lichen epiphyte species on bark and wood. (I usually focus on one organism group a year; last year it was birds.)
- Learn to do union negotiations in support of workplace struggles. (The negotiating scares me, but I think it's time I learned it.)
- Visit my friend K, who has moved recently.
- Have hiked at least 200 km of the local trails. (I get to count the 60 km I hiked in November and December, but OTOH those were the low-hanging fruit in terms of being nearby and easily accessible.)
- Go on a week-long hiking trip.
- Go to Scotland (for reasons that are probably obvious...I have no idea if this will happen, but why not put it up here).
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