Tuesday, September 20, 2016

28 Things: Progress Report Week 5

I decided that I did not like that format I tried out on my last progress report, so I'm going back to the old format.

Also, I feel like I say this all the time, but September has been a bit crazy and tumultuous!  Lots of changes and drama happening at work, plus I moved, started class again for the semester, and am finishing up work on a documentary project that will finish in October.  I haven't been really consciously focusing on my goals for the last several week!  And I have been watching The Office and Penny Dreadful too much on Netflix.

1. Finish #52FilmsByWomen challenge (goes until end of 2016)

PROGRESS - I have sadly fallen behind on this again!  I have watched only one film that I know of that was directed by a woman since Week 2 - Trudell, a documentary about Native American activist, John Turdell who was very active in the American Indian Movement and became a well-known poet.  I still have to catch up on two films though!

2. Collect the rest of the state quarters I am missing (I am missing Hawaii, Nebraska, Michigan, and Iowa) 

No Progress

3. Watch these 12 films : The Darjeeling Limited, Wild, Trainspotting, Equity, Carol, Absolutely Fabulous The Movie, 8 1/2, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Diary of a Teenage Girl, Day for Night, The Fits, Brief Encounter

No Progress

4. Read these 4 feminist reads: To the Lighthouse, The Feminine Mystique, The Beauty Myth, Americanah

TINY PROGRESS - I got Americanah on audiobook!


5. Read 3 of these books that I own or have started reading: Shrill, We Were Feminist Once, Savage Grace, Anna Karenina, Lean In

No Progress

6. Visit Lambert Castle in Paterson, NJ

No Progress

7. Get my passport

No Progress

8. Get involved in local alumni film festival or environmental film festival

No Progress

9. Finish off another student loan

No Progress

10. Start to learn to play the drums

No Progress
Next Step - Find the drum sticks in the garage

11. Complete a serious outline for a screenplay

No Progress

12. Write a song

No Progress

13. Move

COMPLETE - I am basically done with this.  I still have a few odds and ends I need to do like purchase a few more things and paint a bookcase but I'm moved in and living in my new apartment!  I even had the family dog over for the weekend!

14. Put together an anthology of my Grandmother's poems

No Progress 

15. Lose a bit of weight

No Progress
Next Step - Get pass to gym classes!

16. Put together a collection of poems (30 poems, approx 2 new poems each month)

No Progress

17. Learn to use a sewing machine

No Progress


18. Go to see the Lion King on Broadway

No Progress

19. Get a new doctor

No Progress

20. Keep blogging & try to write for a new blog

No Progress - I didn't do my post for my other blog last month or do my progress reports!  Bad.

21. Produce a short film (either my own film or for someone else)

No Progress

22. Go on a date

No Progress

23. Get something tailored

No Progress

24. Start a short, daily journal

TINY PROGRESS - I'd been doing this for a while but I've fallen behind in the last week.


25. Write one of the articles/think pieces I've been contemplating (Snow White & the Huntsman, Bones, Pretty Little Liars, loud women)

No Progress

26. Learn either InDesign or Photoshop from Adobe Creative Suite

No Progress

27. Begin research & development for documentary project at work

No Progress - I'd actually forgotten about this goal.

28. Write fan letters to writers Fraser McAlpine and Brian Jay Jones

No Progress

Bonus Goals:
  • Practice changing a tire - No Progress
  • Start a scrapbook for life events - No Progress
  • Create postcards from friends' art or photos - No Progress
  • Write a draft of my practicum paper (not due until end of 2017) - No Progress
Totals: Progress on 4/28 goals, 0/4 Bonus goals.

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