9) Submissions

Heard back from Poetry Magazine - rejected. But that's okay; my poem simply wasn't meant for their pages. I re-subbed a different poem to Poetry and re-subbed the rejected poem out to AGNI and West Branch. So, 3 more for my tally, and hopefully an acceptance somewhere in the batch!

16) 101 New Foods

Well! New food number 3! Today I ate a kiwi for the first time. Yes, seriously. I'd never eaten a kiwi my entire adult life, but they were on sale at the grocery store today so I picked one up. It wasn't bad - very citrus-y. I'm not sure it's my absolute favorite, but I will certainly eat more in the future.

9) Submissions and 88) Dates

Two more submissions today! I now have poetry out at Tin House and A Public Space. *crosses all her fingers and toes*

While I'm updating, my boyfriend and I went out to Fazoli's for dinner last night. It was good food, affordable, and we had some great conversation, so I'm counting it as a March date :) It was so nice out yesterday and today! Here's to hoping spring will stay this time (instead of bowing out and dumping several more inches of snow on us like it did last week...)

Catch Up!

Wow! I can't believe I've been gone this long. Time to play catch up:

1) Pass my French Praxis. I finally got my scores back and I only half-completed this goal: I passed in one state but not in the other (living on the state line, I was hoping to pass in both states). So I'm going to re-take it and leave this one as "in progress"

11) Review and study my Japanese to a third-semester level. I've been going back through my first year textbook and I'm doing well! I just finished chapter 2 (which would be a third of the way through first semester) so I'm right on track. Moved to "in progress".

12) Finish a self-study book in Arabic. I haven't had the extra money to buy a book yet, but I have been listening to some beginning Arabic podcasts. I can't technically move this to "in progess", but at least I'm getting somewhere with my Arabic.

16) Cook/eat 101 things I've never had before. One of my profs is Mexican-American, and he brought in some kind of spicy...I think they were garbanzo beans, but I'm not sure. They were really spicy, far too spicy for my tastes, but I tried them! Super adventurous? Not really. New? Absolutely. It counts!

28) Write 1,725,000 words of original fiction. Yes, I have worked on this. No, I have no idea what my total word count is at. I need a far better way to keep track of this.

35) Beat Tale of Genji and FFX. I started a new Genji game and I'm almost done with the first chapter. Woohoo! Yoshitsune rocks! Moved to "in progress".

41) Get my hair done at least once every 4 months. I had an appointment for last Monday, but my hairdresser called in sick, so I moved it to this afternoon. In a few hours, I'll be able to move this one to "in progress" as well!

43) Grow an apple tree from seed. Pot? Check. Soil? Check. Apple seed from lunch? Check. Tree? We'll label this one "in progress" for now.

56) Make pizza instead of getting delivery. Last Saturday, I made two pizzas from scratch. Dough and everything. It was so good, we made a new house rule: try to keep a supply of homemade pizza dough in the fridge at all times. COMPLETE!

87) Paint my nails once every month or so. I just did my nails yesterday. Which is technically late for this goal: I missed February. I'm giving myself leeway with the "every month or so" wording (yes, I had said it that way before I missed February). I'll just paint them again at the end of March to catch up.

88) Take my boyfriend on an actual date at least once a month. Perhaps it's cheating, but we did go out to dinner for Valentine's Day. I'm counting it!

Whew! It's the beginning of March and I have 3 goals down for a total of 2.97% complete and more in progess than I had a month ago; February progress feels a little slow, but I have pleanty of time. I'll just have to work a little harder in March, eh?