Goals as they pop into my head...an ongoing process

Pre-1. Um, Hello?! I forgot to mention a little thing called my Advanced Project that is the only thing getting in the way of my graduating. Idiot. GET IT DONE.

1. Get an 'A' in Abnormal Psychology. (out of my hands now)

2. Buy GRE Prep book and study

3. Take GRE by end of September in order to take advantage of 50% off.

4. GET A JOB!

5. SAVE SAVE SAVE!

6. Get my own apartment that makes me happy

7. Get a poem published (within a year??)

8. Keep trying to win the New Yorker cartoon caption contest (good luck with that one)

9. Lose weight (P90X, Pilates, biking, USE SCHOOL GYM while I can!)

10. Get to AZ to see Mom!

11. Be better about communicating with friends and family

12. Make an effort socially (I hate small talk, and don't like schmoozing, and I tend to hold onto one favorite person for dear life, but that doesn't always feel good to the other person

13. Practice Piano Daily. Find new music online. Work on Improvisation.

14. Read more.

15. Write more.

16. Think less; Act more.

17. Clean and Maintain. Rinse and Repeat.

Now I'm just making stuff up...stop.

18. Think about stopping trying so hard with people...it's possible that they'll like me without me trying to please everyone and be perfect, which I fail miserably at anyway. Maybe smile less?? (someone mentioned that I do that when I'm nervous, and it threw me for a loop: I'm not sure if that's true. I don't really think it is. I think things just make me happy easily, but there might be something to it) Chill.

19. Get back to reading "Remembrance of Things Past." Reading the first 1 1/2 books in the series is NOT ENOUGH. Although, so far, "Within a Budding Grove" is boring and not nearly as good as "Swann's Way."

I really want to put punctuation OUTside the quotes. grr.

20. Damn it, I keep thinking of stuff. These are my last few (?) of the day.
Stop comparing myself to others and finding something to be jealous of in EVERYONE. I will never be best or smartest or prettiest or most likable or youngest or most accomplished or cleanest or organized or anything ever, so....just cut it out.

21. some longer term goals:
Graduate school: decide MSW or PsyD (planning on PsyD, but is it realistic?)

22. Relationship issues...nuff said.

23. Savings. Own property. Nice stuff. Travel. Sophistication. Be more polished. Career, not job. Stability. Lawn and porch. Piano. Dishwasher, washer and dryer. MUCH nicer neighborhood, so I don't have to feel so negative and critical because of my own issues.