2018

done

misc.

  • Jan-present:
    • 85% (?) pescatarian; eat meat on average 1 day/week
  • Feb-present:
    • Integrating weight training (*Thinner, Leaner, Stronger *plan) with 5-day/week workout
    • Getting 7.5+ hours sleep/night except maybe 6 nights this year
  • Jan.-Feb: Went to Viet Nam
  • Mar
    • Filed our federal and state taxes for the first time (husband normally does)
    • Attended the March for our Lives
    • Got pre-approved for a mortgage
  • Apr
    • Got offer accepted on buying a townhouse!
  • Jun
    • Moved in to new house
  • Jul
    • Top-roping for the first time
  • Aug
    • I/O and resource management in Scala
    • V2 bouldering
    • 5.10a top roping
    • Became belay-certified
  • Sept
    • Ran 8 mi
    • Lifted 410lb table into house with husband. It is beautiful.
    • Can do 1/2 of a v3 on average...
  • Oct
    • Went to Spain!
    • Attended international functional programming conference
  • Nov
    • Insulated attic!

courses

fiction

  1. Colorless Tsukuru and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
  2. *Electric State, The *by Simon Stålenhag
  3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
  4. *I, Robot *by Isaac Asimov
  5. *MaddAddam *by Margaret Atwood (MaddAddam #3)
  6. *Mass Effect: Initiation *by N.K. Jemison
  7. *Only Human *by Sylvain Neuvel (Themis Files #3)
  8. *Oryx and Crake *by Margaret Atwood (MaddAddam #1)
  9. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  10. *Sleeping Giants *by Sylvain Neuvel (Themis Files #1)
  11. *Stranger in a Strange Land *by Robert Heinlein (in progress)
  12. Three-Body Problem, The by Liu Cixin
  13. *Waking Gods *by Sylvain Neuvel (Themis Files #2)
  14. *Wrinkle in Time, A *by Madeleine L'Engle
  15. *Year of the Flood, The *by Margaret Atwood (MaddAddam #2)

non-fiction

  1. *Astrophysics for People in a Hurry *by Neil deGrasse Tyson (on hold)
  2. *Functional Programming in Scala *by Rúnar Bjarnason (on hold)
  3. *Hidden Figures *by Margot Lee Shetterley
  4. *I Am Malala *by Malala Yousafzai
  5. *Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love *by Marty Cagan
  6. *River in Darkness, A: One Man's Escape from North Korea *by Masaji Ishikawa
  7. Scala with Cats (in progress)
  8. *Vietnam: Rising Dragon *by Bill Hayton (on hold)
  9. *What I Talk About When I Talk About Running *by Haruki Murakami

comics

video games

  • *Assassin's Creed: Origins *(in progress)
  • Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
  • Cooking Fever
  • Destiny 2 (cont'd)
  • Fire Emblem Awakening
  • *Horizon: Zero Dawn + *The Frozen Wilds
  • Mass Effect: Andromeda
  • Mirror's Edge Catalyst
  • Order Up!!
  • Overwatch
  • Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight
  • Persona 4: Dancing All Night
  • Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight
  • *Stardew Valley *(cont'd)
  • *Talos Principle, The *(on hold)
  • Walking Dead, The: Season 1

movies

  • Annihilation

  • Ant-Man and the Wasp

  • Avengers: Infinity War

  • Banking on Bitcoin

  • Black Panther

  • Bohemian Rhapsody

  • Brain on Fire

  • Coco

  • Daddy's Home II

  • Deadpool 2

  • Downsizing

  • Flint

  • Game Night

  • Girls Trip

  • Greatest Showman, The

  • Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II

  • Joy Luck Club, The

  • Marshall

  • Martian, The

  • Mulan

  • Mulan II

  • *Paprika *(partial)

  • Paterno

  • Post, The

  • Prestige, The

  • Shape of Water, The

  • Solo: A Star Wars Movie

  • Who Killed Captain Alex?

  • Wrinkle in Time, A

tv shows

  • すべてがFになる:Perfect Insider, The
  • Archer, seasons 3-7
  • *Battlestar Galactica, *seasons 1-4
  • Black Mirror, season 3, season 4 (on hold)
  • Chihayafuru, season 1 (season 2 in progress)
  • Casa de Papel, La, seasons 1-2
  • Expanse, The, seasons 1-2
  • Explained (in progress)
  • Flash, The, season 3
  • Game of Thrones, season 7
  • Insecure, season 2
  • Niña, La
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1 (in progress)
  • Two Dope Queens
  • WestWorld, season 1
  • *Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku *(in progress)
  • Young Pope, The

goals

done/keeping up

  • buy a home/stop renting
  • lose weight forget it I keep staying at the same damn weight year after year
    • but at minimum work out 5x/week
  • maintain pescetarianism at least 6 out of 7 days a week on average
    • exceptions for traveling, especially internationally where meat industries are probably much more ethical

not yet

  • get into habit of sleeping at least 7.5 hours a night
  • maintain Spanish fluency and ^ vocabulary
    • finish a Spanish novel to ^ vocabulary
  • read at least 24 books and write at least a short note about each one to remember them better
    • last year's count: 33
  • become a better minimalist

forget it

  • don't give up on violin even though it's f***in' hard
  • run my first marathon (?!) --- maybe next year
  • learn Tagalog --- maybe next year