the year of thinking recklessly
It doesn’t have the same retweetability of 2000&Mine, but if there’s to be a year that’s going to be about adding a few more gears to the brainworks, this would be it for me.
My biggest fails of 2009 include not following through on the TEFL course and wasting obscene chunks of time doing fokall*. For dreams to remains dreams; all you have to do is oversleep (I’m pretty sure I ripped this line off of somewhere).
Well, we’ll be having none of that this year. I’m tailgating Irfaan and making myself accountable (link via Hasina).
I begin The Year of Thinking Recklessly; a few lines a day, every day. Part memoir and part made-it-all-up, it is an exercise in creative consistency.
So here’s to the words, lots of them, and again, to consistency.
*not as much ‘dolce far niente’ as putting sloths to shame.
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TEFL hey? I am seriously toying with that option right now. Need to counteract the sloth within me too! Way too many series on the harddrive consuming my time.. If i may ask, who were you doing the TEFL course through?
It was an online course through these guys: http://tesol-tefl.com/
I was such a waste about it, signed up (paid!) and then just never got around to finishing. A most expensive lesson on the peril of procrastination.
there’s so many, i’m getting confused! I do know that i dont want to do it online though. Thinking of heading to CT for a month to do the in-class one. Seeing as though the parentals are footing this bill, i need to make sure i finish and actually USE it!
I hope so too Fatima, it’s so easy to ‘rather not’ or use some arb busy-ness as an excuse. I always complained there were never enough hours in the day, not factoring the time I waste on things with no growth value (like those dumb flash games I get sucked into).
I hope you find your space to make cool stuff:)
Aah I get sucked into news24 as I hunger for news of SA.
Thanks.
I just signed up for the class a few minutes ago.
I hope it’s worth the 1 night less in NYC that it was traded for
Btw, I’m loving this new period of productivity that you’ve got going on here! Good for you Saaleha!
You could turn it into a book (inshAllah) after the 365th post
I was kicking that idea around. Pdf the whole lot.
Happy 2010 saaleha
A big cheers to new year resolutions and accountability. . . which gives rise to more ideas actually
So here’s hoping the year ahead gives us more than we’re hoping for
Back at ya:)
Thanks for posting that link. It was a snowball, look out for the avalanche:)
Wishing you all the best for 2010 in all your endevours. May this year be filled with all sorts of good stuff
Now that would take a lot more effort from me, than taking photos
Good luck!
And the converse for me. I’m really digging your series so far.
back with a vengeance huh? wonderful!
the world seems bleaker with less of your words, truly it does.
Thanks Pri. This year is all about making the effort.
I hope your venture will be fruitful.
Tariq Ramadan mentioned something about picking something and working your hardest towards it to help yourself and the Ummah.
It’s logical, but I just can’t seem to get out of the slump.
I’m giving myself 3 days to decide if I want to brave the freezing Boston evenings and trudge in the snow to get to a Japanese Brush Painting class.
The snowstorm’s can be dangerous and the class is throughout the winter.
I feel the need to make/draw/play with something creative. Since my pottery lessons ended due to ‘the move’ I can’t seem to shake off this unproductive tendency that I seem to have.