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Posts Tagged goals

Infinite Summer: David Foster Wallace summer reading challenge

The challenge: read David Foster Wallace’s highly-praised novel Infinite Jest during the summer of 2009 from roughly June 21st to September 22nd, at about 75 pages a week.
Since I’ve had this book sitting on my reading pile for a while now, I have decided to accept this challenge and follow along at the very interesting [...]


Building Better Habits Using Web Tools

Now that I’ve learned to love cooking (and it seems to have replaced television for me, happily), I need to deal with my issues of eating in an unhealthy way. I occasionally overeat, eat when I’m in emotionally unstable states, and often eat with distractions such as books or the internet. It [...]


Published!!! Developing a Writing Career?

I just received my contributor copies of Border Crossings magazine, a well-respected Canadian arts magazine distributed nationally. Last summer I had the opportunity to review an exhibition entitled Oil Spill: New Painting in Ontario at Saw Gallery, a local artist-run gallery. It was a huge challenge to write effectively about six artists [...]


Towards Achieving New Years Resolutions: Getting Started

Instead of going to one of the many New Years parties I was invited to, I opted for a quiet night with a few close friends (who happen to be neighbours). We ate some delicious food, listened to some groovy music, and most importantly shared our new years resolutions out loud. This allowed [...]


Of Course: 10 Ambitious Resolutions for 2008

It’s good to think big, right? Well I have lots of changes I would like to see happen in my life, and while I may not achieve all of them I think it’s good to have them defined. A few of them will be enforced practically at the start of 2008, while others [...]