End of May and June

End of May is basically moving and meeting time. I moved to my new apartment a few days ago, and things are settling down. During the last several years, there have been a lot of trials-and-errors as I tried to find the organization approach that works best for me; and this time around, I'm trying a completely new thing: under-scheduling.

I did not commit to anything this summer beside working (probably part-time) at the reactor. But that's perfectly fine since this is my last free summer before I graduate and enter a world where summer breaks don't exist. Not committing to any formal obligation, however, doesn't mean not doing anything. There are many personal projects that I'm eager to start, and in the spirit of under-scheduling, I decided to pursue three of them each month (four for the last week of May and June together). My mother and sister are also visiting from June 1st-8th, so I don't expect to get much work done during that time. Everything considered, this the plan for the end of May and June:

What I'm working on:

+ unpacking: hopefully this will be done by the beginning of June, as it will be the only thing I work on at my apartment

+ organize life, which involves:

- flesh out and implement a new GTD system
- answer ALL the emails and implement a new email system
- reduce number of emails
- make check lists for various routines: daily, weekly, monthly, study sessions
- organize and rename computers, refine "Work" account, clean up computer
- organize physical workspace
- throw my stuff out
- compose a database of how long it takes me to do various tasks
- evaluate phone plan
- clean up monthly bills

+ Perchance to Dream: my Assassin Guild game, probably running at the end of the summer. I don't expect this to be very time consuming.

+ Experimenting for the best study practice by learning some math: I'm going to review the math classes I took at MIT and teach myself some 18.06, following the practice that I plan to use for my classes in the fall semester. The math-learning is just a side-effect of the actual project, which is testing and revising by newly-made study method

+ mini-project: explore the surrounding.

+ mini-project: cooking and cooking plans

Saturday Morning Project: Drawing and CGing

What I'm reading: I haven't figured out how fast I read yet, so I may read more or less than what are on this list.

+ Ender's Shadow
+ Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother
+ The Now Habit
+ The Psychology of Emotions (yeah, I read textbooks for fun)

Habit I'm building:

+ complete daily and weekly checklists on time. This is kind of like cheating, since the checklists imply several habits...

Skill I'm building: skills are something that I work on 10 minutes each day.

+ guitar (not including playing for fun, of course). I will soon come up with a curriculum.

Adventure: unknown yet, let's see what comes up. I guess exploring the surrounding of my apartment can be an adventure in itself. I suspect I'll have some other too when my mother and sister come.

Well, that's it! Fairly realistic. Let's see how this works out a month from now.