999 Days

I'm removing a few tasks that I had started, mostly because they were having a decidedly negative effect on me... and isn't the whole point of this exercise to get me out of my rut and not into an entirely new one?  I really don't want this to turn into self-flagellation, even though I do feel a little bit wimpy for giving up on them so early.  Today I felt so completely dragged through the gutter that I decided to keep the focus of my goals on adding things to my life, not taking things away.  Much more positive, non?
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009. Go meatless every Friday during Lent - (03/21)
One more Friday down, even though I went to the diner for breakfast with coworkers, and everyone ordered bacon (my weakness).

037. Listen to 50 iTunes U lectures - (09/50)
Today at work I listened to two series from the Open University: Analysing European Romanticism (6 lectures) and The Large Hadron Collider (3 lectures).

I never managed to learn very much about the Romantics--my concentration in history ended before the French Revolution--although I was always peripherally fascinated by them, particularly the art.  The lectures were rather topical, which normally I wouldn't mind at all but I would have read up a little more on the background and time line first, had I known.

The series on the LHC was a winner.  It was presented more like an NPR story, narration interspersed with interviews, rather than a straight lecture.  The details of a lot of the scientific parts were explained with adequate metaphors and the narration filled in the gaps nicely.  Two thumbs up.  I spent the next 45 minutes of my day reading about the Higgs boson.  
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My ambition to attempt much else tonight (including updating this...) has been crippled by the sinus headache that's been plaguing me all week.  I'm hoping that if I go to bed at a reasonable hour I'll feel better tomorrow.