Today I am 41, and still going, still doing The List, although it has evolved some what. I am starting to keep records over at http://lpghackslife.tumblr.com/ and whilst things specifically on the list will be updated here, there will be a wider range of things over there.
Some of which I am off to do now.
So today I’m attending the Rails Girls London event, and tomorrow will be spent on the accompanying hack day learning to code using Rails.
On The List, I did put ‘learn a new language’ (I know it has a number, but I forget which and I’m drinking a glass of wine and simply cannot be bbbb’d to look it up, (not) sorry!) and in talking to others here, I’ve realised that this is indeed me doing that ‘thing’.
So Ruby on Rails. and by tomorrow I will have also made some ‘use’ of it. I’ll park whatever it is somewhere and you can all go and play with it and laugh at me. I’ll join in :-)
Hello dearest darlings.
Well, I occupied myself. And now am unoccupied, and getting tetchy, so am back doing list like things again. More of which later, when I a) have something to show, and b) am hopefully less tetchy.
Let it simply be said that there is (finally) real and concrete progress being made on numbers 5,7,9,10&17. A soupcon more on 29 and 37. I’m also still keeping up with the whole ‘million word challenge’ and getting a lot of processing done in the process, alongside some honest to goodness published things.
Love, life and list.
Helen/LPG
Earlier this year I took part in a couple of projects, because I wanted to, and because they furthered the cause of various parts of the list. Both of these have now been released and are linked in the previous posts :-)
This is the pitch video for Robert Llewellyn’s second Gardenia book, to be published through Unbound. Please go to http://unbound.co.uk/ to see details of this and other books that deserve your support and purchasing power :-)
I’m trying to work out how to embed this, but at the moment its not letting me. But please follow the main link and click play.
The chronicles of professor elemental, part two (the episode I’m in). Please go and watch it in its entirety on YouTube.
http://millionwordchallenge.wordpress.com/
Oh good golly gosh oh my. This is going to be a toughy.
A whole year, each day needing just shy of 3000 words. Regardless of whether there are other things to be, or do, or … hey it could be housework! This year I think the rest of my household are finally going to get *really* good at the housework.
For the first time though, I’m not the only one involved. The whole thing was the idea of the first two challengers listed. The rest of us joined in, whether through accident, design or simply madness.
I know that there are many of you out there rolling your eyes at me. You are allowed to do that. We’ve all been there before.
p.s. Go and have a look at The Challengers page and read the links for all the lovely people kind enough to welcome me to their merry band. Please.
p.p.s. (and if you’ve got something you’d like written, please yell. I reserve the right to say no, or expect some cash if you’re that sort of publication. I’m very versitile, so give me a try :-)
Number 32 gets underway! It has its own place to live over at
http://amonthofmusic.tumblr.com
Please follow there and here. I’m soooo scared of this being a complete fuck-up, so support, help, nice comments (actually even fucking nasty ones would do, as I’ll know you are reading ha!) all appreciated.
Well, I turned forty. Just under a month ago. Doing The List kind of ran out of steam as life and love and stuff carried on regardless. I’m still plugging away (mainly at writing, standup and just being me) sitting firmly at the eye of the storm. I have a new project (or two!) in the works, of which more at a later date, save to say The List was there at the inception. I start to ponder on whether in two years I will be thinking of life as BL and AL, or what. The List came out of a need to change, and has also been a catalyst for huge changes.
Love, list and life.
Helen/LPG
Golly - nearly a week since this was begun and I had *such* a blast with the lovely Deathboy I forgot to Tumblr it! To the point where the photo isn’t on my phone anymore, not that I was in it, so no good for evidentiary purposes!
Need to practise practise practise and get, somehow, round to the ‘do it’ second half of the challenge!
