a list for May

Today, a few days early, I flipped my Escher calendar page to face May. The yellow, interlocking-seahorse paradox made me feel that this month deserves my utmost attention and must not be wasted. Some goals of prevention came to mind.

- don't eat after 6:00 [a healthy habit my mother has been trying to put in place for years]

- wake up before 9:00

- run in the morning

- drink more tea

- listen to opera, like I used to

- write a good short story

- practice driving [conquer the scary highway!]

- get personal with my Elna

- start work on my grad dress [I have a flapper-style Simplicity pattern, stiff, dark blue material for the outside, and off-white, butterfly-strewn cotton for the lining]

- eat more vegetables

- finish all the books I've begun to neglect [and loathe]

- start new, fun books [very much not by Stephen King, but by E.M. Forster and Stieg Larsson]

- watch more films off the AFI 100

- wear skirts

- become re-acquainted with my Indian ink, fountain pen and parchment [what fun we used to have!]

- see more people

- continue watching 007 [they need to be watched before Bond 23 next year!]

- memorize Proverbs 3