To be revisited on October 1
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hawkwing_lbI'm thinking a lot about goals and goal-setting lately: realistic and unrealistic, and the difference between.
I've a bad habit of trying to do too much too quickly, which has resulted - and does result - in some somewhat unpleasant experiences. So instead of giving myself goals with deadlines, I'm going to decide upon a list of things to do, and then aim to do more than 50% of them.
Exercise:
Monday, Friday: gym: running, weights
Wednesday: gym: running, weights; climbing: not less than thirty minutes
Tuesday, Thursday: gym: running, rowing machine; climbing: not less than one hour
Saturday, Sunday: running, not less than thirty minutes (intervals)
College-related:
Read:
1. Colin Wells, The Roman Empire*
2. Avril Cameron, The Later Roman Empire*
3. Martin Goodman, The Roman World: 44BC-180AD;
4.Rome and Jerusalem*
5. Breeze & Dobson, Hadrian's Wall*
6. Tacitus, Agricola*;
7.Annals
8. Caesar, Gallic Wars*
9. Livy, History
10. Josephus, Judean War
11. Virgil, Aeniad
12. Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction, the chapters on the Johannine and Pauline writings*
13. S. Ireland, Roman Britain: A Sourcebook, some readings
14. Lewis & Reinhold, Roman Civilisation: Vol. 2: The Empire, some readings
15. J. Huskinson, Experiencing Rome, some readings
16.Dignas & Winter, Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity
17-20. some four or five books tbd on Roman Egypt.
Sketch answers to:
(Or, at minimum, research bibliography for:)
1. "What role did the indigenous populations play in the development of the Roman provinces? Refer to at least two different areas in the Roman world."
2. "To what extent did early emperors use the concepts of memory and restoration in their political strategies?"
3. "Compare and contrast the events after the deaths of Domitian and Commodus."
4. "Discuss the design and plan of Hadrian's Wall. To what extent is it unusual in terms of Roman frontier design?"
5. "'Nowhere in Roman Britain is the evidence for the survival of Celtic culture more apparent than in religion.' (Laing). Discuss."
Other questions as may be appropriate.
Language:
Revise Greek to Ch. 16
Work through: 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Acquire interlinear NT
Latin: work through Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Writing:
1. Organise notes on duellist
2. Integrate revised ideas to the first part of duellist: to whit, open new file and put the pieces back together until we rearrive at Ch. 8
3. Reach 30K mark
4. Reach 40K mark
5. Reach 50K mark
6. Reach 60K mark
7. Reach 70K mark
8. Reach 80K mark
9. Finish book
10. Revise book
Household/other:
Living space. Tidy it.
DVDs. Shelve them.
CDs. Figure out how better to store them.
Work space. Rearrange it.
Nutritious and interesting diet. Figure one out.
CV. Print and copy it.
CV. Submit it to at least 30 locations that might possibly employ you at weekends.
The aim is to revisit this post on October 1st, and see how much I can achieve in two months. Achieving half will be quite satisfactory, but it'll be interesting to see if I can do more than that without undue pressure.
Anyway. The experiment commences tomorrow.
I've a bad habit of trying to do too much too quickly, which has resulted - and does result - in some somewhat unpleasant experiences. So instead of giving myself goals with deadlines, I'm going to decide upon a list of things to do, and then aim to do more than 50% of them.
Exercise:
Monday, Friday: gym: running, weights
Wednesday: gym: running, weights; climbing: not less than thirty minutes
Tuesday, Thursday: gym: running, rowing machine; climbing: not less than one hour
Saturday, Sunday: running, not less than thirty minutes (intervals)
College-related:
Read:
2. Avril Cameron, The Later Roman Empire*
3. Martin Goodman, The Roman World: 44BC-180AD;
4.
6. Tacitus, Agricola*;
7.
8. Caesar, Gallic Wars*
9. Livy, History
10. Josephus, Judean War
11. Virgil, Aeniad
12. Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction, the chapters on the Johannine and Pauline writings*
13. S. Ireland, Roman Britain: A Sourcebook, some readings
14. Lewis & Reinhold, Roman Civilisation: Vol. 2: The Empire, some readings
15. J. Huskinson, Experiencing Rome, some readings
16.
17-20. some four or five books tbd on Roman Egypt.
Sketch answers to:
(Or, at minimum, research bibliography for:)
1. "What role did the indigenous populations play in the development of the Roman provinces? Refer to at least two different areas in the Roman world."
2. "To what extent did early emperors use the concepts of memory and restoration in their political strategies?"
3. "Compare and contrast the events after the deaths of Domitian and Commodus."
4. "Discuss the design and plan of Hadrian's Wall. To what extent is it unusual in terms of Roman frontier design?"
5. "'Nowhere in Roman Britain is the evidence for the survival of Celtic culture more apparent than in religion.' (Laing). Discuss."
Other questions as may be appropriate.
Language:
Work through: 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Acquire interlinear NT
Latin: work through Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Writing:
1. Organise notes on duellist
2. Integrate revised ideas to the first part of duellist: to whit, open new file and put the pieces back together until we rearrive at Ch. 8
3. Reach 30K mark
4. Reach 40K mark
5. Reach 50K mark
6. Reach 60K mark
7. Reach 70K mark
8. Reach 80K mark
9. Finish book
10. Revise book
Household/other:
DVDs. Shelve them.
CDs. Figure out how better to store them.
Work space. Rearrange it.
Nutritious and interesting diet. Figure one out.
CV. Print and copy it.
CV. Submit it to at least 30 locations that might possibly employ you at weekends.
The aim is to revisit this post on October 1st, and see how much I can achieve in two months. Achieving half will be quite satisfactory, but it'll be interesting to see if I can do more than that without undue pressure.
Anyway. The experiment commences tomorrow.
