Goals

I get more done when I have more to get done. I'm not really sure why this is true; maybe my brain doesn't schedule well in wide-open time frames. I read more books when I was in high school, and never skipped turning in an assignment. The house is a lot cleaner when I have other things to be doing. (Homework is a surprisingly great motivator for cleaning out closets. Weird!)

So I'm thinking about making myself homework. Since I can't afford to go back for formal schooling right now, I'm looking at things like:

• 1 blog post every day (not necessarily here; I have a WoW-related blog, too) - if there's not enough content for that, maybe 3/week or some such.
• At least 1 book a week from my vast, accumulated store of "I'll read it when I'm out of college" books. (Not including reference books. Not that my 1919 Britannica isn't probably fascinating. And I'm sure the annotated Oxford Bible w/the Apocrypha is insightful, but... I've read the Old Testament and a good chunk of the New Testament, so we'll stick with "new" content.)
• Um, the previous bullet may require rearranging the bedroom to get to said books. We'll see.
• Two hours of one weekend day dedicated to closet purging. Because we're packrats. Until the closets are satisfactorily pared down to only crap we want/need to keep.
  
• Five chapters in one of my accumulated textbooks a week. I think I have a good inorganic chemistry text, and I could stand to go through calculus and statistics again. Also, Russian, French, and German reviews. Especially passive voice and the subjunctive in German. (Yes, I miss math homework. I'm weird.)
  
• At least 3 hours of the Mandarin CDs a week. Hopefully progressing beyond lesson 1. (They're in my car; I have a ~45 minute commute, with about 30 minutes on the interstate.)
• A full-on cleaning every Saturday. Floors, cobwebs, dusting, kitchen surfaces, bedding, all that.
• At least an hour of writing every day. It would be good to get a lot of this stuff out of my head and onto paper so I have room to think about other things.
• Get through at least 1 work-related publication a week. (Library Journal, American Libraries, Reference & User Services Quarterly, Journal of Access Services, etc.)
• At least an hour and a half of walking/running/biking a week. (30 mins. x3)
  

Crazy? Doable?

Oh, and I'm not giving up WoW. >.>