Goals for 2013

Non-academic Books

• Ulysses, James Joyce
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin
• Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
  (I’m already a good way through the previous three, so they should be crossed off pretty quickly)
• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
• *Brave New World*, Aldous Huxley
• Harry Potter, JK Rowling
• Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (Kinda tired of criticizing it without having read it)
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
• Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
• The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
  -Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut

School/Career Accomplishments

• Get at least two more full journal articles accepted (additional to the smaller pieces I already have brewing)
• At least one book review, and one short position statement published
  - Get an additional leadership position somewhere (probably the GISS specialty group of the AAG)
• Finish at least one chapter of my dissertation
• Begin submitting job applications

Fun Accomplishments

• Run a French film festival (or film series) in Monterey
• Hike the Pinnacles
  - Visit and hike around Big Sur
• Visit and hike around Kings Canyon and Sequoia parks
• Run a marathon

Watch

• Breathless
• Alphaville
• 8 1/2
• The 39 Steps
  - Le Samurai
  - Man Bites Dog
  - 21 Grams
• L’Auberge Espagnol
  - Dazed And Confused
  - Clerks
• Oldboy
• Dead Man
• Belle Du Jour
  - Jiro Dreams of Sushi
• Carlito’s Way
  - The Fall