The Have Done List: November

Played Apocalypse World

Read Two Bear Mambo (Joe Lansdale), The Race (Richard North Patterson), Tomoe Gozen and The Golden Naginate (Jessica Amanda Salmonsen), The Four Hour Work Week (Timothy Ferris), a bunch of Elric stories and most of Billy's new book.

digitised my CD collection

made a tough decision about my writing future


watched Jennifer's Body (it's suprisingly good)

brainstormed a national advertising campaign

help create answers for a Parliamentary Question

watched as the end of that chain of answers led to the resignation of 'my' Minister

handed in a film funding proposal for 2011

went to Apollo 13: Mission Control, where I was interviewed by Walter Cronkite and seized control of Mission Control (best interactive theatre experience ever)

The Have Done List: September to October

Here's some stuff I've done in the last month and a half that I think's notable:

• defriended a couple of people on Facebook (if you're reading this, you're unlikely to be one of them)
   
• gave feedback on Jenni's novel
   
• asked Matt if he would digitise episodes of lovebites for me (which he very kindly did)
   
• decluttered, massively
  
  
• got an exciting comment about people who are interested in playtesting Left Coast
  
  
• got good feedback from Jenni about my feedback on her novel
   
• bought a desk and assembled it myself
  
  
• broke a desk
• went on holiday
• stayed reasonably dry in the middle of a three day storm
• re-learned how to build a fire
  
  
• introduced Jennifer to story games
  
  
• cleared all of my emails (believe me, this is a big thing!)
  
• fixed a desk
  
• broke a filing cabinet
  
• threw a temper tantrum (which fixed the filing cabinet)
• set up an filing system at work 
• deposited 20 boxes of emails and script notes from the lovebites TV series at the Film Archive (closure, baby! Yeah!)
• learned how to give effective feedback in a personal/non-literary context (Describe when it occured; Describe exactly and objectively what happened; Explain the impact it had on you).
• Decided to write a scholarship application in 24 hours
• Had a lot of fun with Jennifer on Halloween weekend, including becoming a raving fan of the pies at Sweet Mother's Kitchen
• Inspired mcdaldno to write more of his game: Monsterhearts.
  

The Have Done List: April to September

Here's some of what I've been up to for the last 6 months:

• borrowed CDs from the library for the first time in 20 years
• listened to MIA
• gave feedback on Blowback - a new game about spies by Elizabeth Shoemaker
• discovered a new author (Tim Powers) and read two of his books.
• rented Rec 2, one hella-crazy zombie film
• sent Bad Family off for peer review
• finished a series of posts about the New Thing
• got slightly sick
• rescued a yellow-feathered sparrow from a cat, nursed it back to health and watched it fly away
• won speed dating
• went to roller derby
• got stressed at work
• managed a complicated cross-government data-entry project with slight political ramifications
• starting writing a project I care about
• managed a creative disagreement
• met a great woman
• Gave feedback on Jenni's novel
• pitched Workplace Bully to Sean
• lead a series of team meetings based on what I've learned from Made to Stick
• gained confidence
• started re-learning to cook (one of my 12 goals in 2 years)
• wrote a pitch for Workplace Bully and got great feedback on it
• had a heart-to-heart with a co-wo
• moved into a new flat (and it is great)
• ate a pistachio and chocolate twirl from Simply Paris
• cooked tofu for the first time
• went on a weekend away
• started working on a new feature film storyline
• figured out how to play Apocalypse World

Things are good. Blogging will sort-of resume while I get my life back into balance after shifting flats.

The Have Done List: March

Rather than writing a to-do list, here's a list of things I did do in March:

• bought two seasons of Angel incredibly cheaply at the dump shop
• discovered (and developed a crush on) The Big Bang Theory
• used TV Gorge, before it folded
• started a game of Bad Family on Google Wave
• won poker (and 10 packets of Girl Guide biscuits)
• entertained a three-year old with a talking rabbit
• went body-surfing in Lyall Bay
• drove up and back to Auckland
• saw the Pixies perform Doolittle
• drove around Auckland by myself