a series of goals

Thumbs up for goals!

For a very important week.

For the next five days, at least, Christopher will be in a nearby province, exchanging his skills to gain new ones.  As he says it, performing some hard labor.  As I say, filling up his work-soul with all that it craves and more.

I've established for myself some big goals for this big week where I'll be pretty much on my own.

Firstly,
I shall attempt not to starve.  To avoid this, I've asked myself what I used to do before we lived together and Chris made nearly every item of food I consumed.

The answer? Pasta. And crackers. And cheese. And things from bags, mostly.  I'm going to throw some fresh fruit in there, because one doesn't need to do much peel a banana.  So, I'm stocking up on convenient foods here in Phnom Penh so that I can meet my daily caloric need.

Secondly,
I shall read.  I have an impossibly high stack of books on my Peace Corps issued trunk that has been haunting me for months.  I will get through some of them.  With my earplugs in so that I don't think that every single noise after the sun sets is a killer come to get me.

(This is a legitimate concern, if you're inside my mind late at night anytime past six p.m.)

Thirdly,
I will create spreadsheets to my heart's content.  I have three on the docket, including:

One to organize all of the job searching-and-applying that I'm about to dive into in these coming months (the triumphant return is approaching and I can almost taste it!)

One for the purpose of ranking and sorting all of the James Bond movies ever made, a task that Chris and I have set for ourselves before we make said triumphant return.  We are going to watch every single one and assess it on the rubric I'll make this week.  Items to be assessed currently include: Quality of Villain; General Awesomeness of Bond Girl: Swagger; Believability as International Man of Mystery/Martini Drinker; Intensity of Fight Scenes and (for me), Level of Human Elements that Make Kate Want to Watch.

and

One for actual working time, for budget planning for our hopefully-upcoming second Camp GLOW.

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I have quite a history for setting lofty personal goals for time when I'm alone, so I've little doubt that all items are going to be accomplished.

I mean, if we're being honest, Chris will probably arrive home to me passed out lying in a pile of ramen noodle wrappers watching Monster's Inc, which I'm currently downloading to my iTunes.

So, you know,

we'll see.