24 for Twenty Four

This year I chose not to participate in a yearly tradition titled n for n.¹ While what that initially meant is unimportant, what’s important is that I’ve decided to reincorporate the name. Instead of meaning whatever it used to,² I’m going to try to learn 24 new skills while I’m 24. These can be actual skills, like an instrument or language, or things I just had never done and so had no way to do them. I’ll also include skills I once had but no longer do, such as picking up an instrument I’ve forgotten or doing some athletic feat that I needed to retrain for. I’ll keep this list updated with them, and may remove them depending on how things go.

Thanks for following me on this journey! I think that I revisited it a little too infrequently for the hope of intentionality to seep too far. I did feel motivated to try a few more things these past weeks. Now that I’ve completed the list, I think this is something I want to try again with each following year of my life. There are an infinite number of things that I can do, which means there’re an infinite number of things I haven’t done yet.

Draft 7: 26 July 2023, added new notes

This year I chose not to participate in a yearly tradition titled n for n.²¹ While what that initially meant is unimportant, what’s important is that I’ve decided to reincorporate the name. Instead of meaning whatever it used to,²² I’m going to try to learn 24 new skills while I’m 24. These can be actual skills, like an instrument or language, or things I just had never done and so had no way to do them. I’ll also include skills I once had but no longer do, such as picking up an instrument I’ve forgotten or doing some athletic feat that I needed to retrain for. I’ll keep this list updated with them, and may remove them depending on how things go.

Thanks for following me on this journey! I’m hopeful that this will let me reflect on the passage of time more intentionally. I’m also hopeful that it will mean that next summer, when I⁴¹ have far too few entries, I’ll use some time to branch out and try new things.

Note 26 July: I’ve apparently done twenty three new things this year, which is basically where I want to be. I need to do a single new thing before I turn twenty five, which should be doable.⁴² If I do more things that feel notable, I suppose that I can get rid of some items I don’t feel strongly about/combine them.⁴³

Draft 6: 3 June 2023, added new notes and revised opening text

This year I chose not to participate in a yearly tradition titled n for n.⁴⁴ While what that initially meant is unimportant, what’s important is that I’ve decided to reincorporate the name. Instead of meaning whatever it used to,⁴⁵ I’m going to try to learn 24 new skills while I’m 24. These can be actual skills, like an instrument or language, or things I just had never done and so had no way to do them. I’ll also include skills I once had but no longer do, such as picking up an instrument I’ve forgotten or doing some athletic feat that I needed to retrain for. I’ll keep this list updated with them, and may remove them depending on how things go.

Thanks for following me on this journey! I’m hopeful that this will let me reflect on the passage of time more intentionally. I’m also hopeful that it will mean that next summer, when I⁵⁹ have far too few entries, I’ll use some time to branch out and try new things.

Note 3 June: I’ve apparently done eighteen new things this year, which is two or three⁶⁰ fewer new tasks than I would like to be at now. My standards are absolutely dropping here, but that is probably ok. After all, I am generally ok with who I am as a person, so remaining myself isn’t anything too bad.

Draft 5: 15 May 2023, added new notes

This year I chose not to participate in a yearly tradition that was titled n for n. While what that initially meant is unimportant, what’s important is that I’ve decided to reincorporate the name. Instead of meaning whatever it used to,⁶¹ I’m going to try to learn 24 new skills while I’m 24. These can be actual skills, like an instrument or language, or things I just had never done and so had no way to do them. I’ll also include skills I once had but no longer do, such as picking up an instrument I’ve forgotten or doing some athletic feat that I needed to retrain for. I’ll keep this list updated with them, and may remove them depending on how things go. Thus far I really only have one, but I’m hopeful to add more.

Thanks for following me on this journey! I’m hopeful that this will let me reflect on the passage of time more intentionally. I’m also hopeful that it will mean that next summer, when I⁷¹ have far too few entries, I’ll use some time to branch out and try new things.

Note 15 May: I’ve apparently done thirteen⁷² new things this year, which is five⁷³ fewer than I would like to be at now. Either I need to start lowering my standards for what counts as new or I need to start doing more.

Draft 4: 1 December 2022, added new notes

This year I chose not to participate in a yearly tradition that was titled n for n. While what that initially meant is unimportant, what’s important is that I’ve decided to reincorporate the name. Instead of meaning whatever it used to,⁷⁴ I’m going to try to learn 24 new skills while I’m 24. These can be actual skills, like an instrument or language, or things I just had never done and so had no way to do them. I’ll also include skills I once had but no longer do, such as picking up an instrument I’ve forgotten or doing some athletic feat that I needed to retrain for. I’ll keep this list updated with them, and may remove them depending on how things go. Thus far I really only have one, but I’m hopeful to add more.

Thanks for following me on this journey! I’m hopeful that this will let me reflect on the passage of time more intentionally. I’m also hopeful that it will mean that next summer, when I⁷⁹ have far too few entries, I’ll use some time to branch out and try new things.

Note 1 December: I am now slightly behind which is fine. Now it’s time to start doing things outside of my comfort zone I guess.

Draft 3: 26 October 2022, added new notes

This year I chose not to participate in a yearly tradition that was titled n for n. While what that initially meant is unimportant, what’s important is that I’ve decided to reincorporate the name. Instead of meaning whatever it used to,⁸⁰ I’m going to try to learn 24 new skills while I’m 24. These can be actual skills, like an instrument or language, or things I just had never done and so had no way to do them. I’ll also include skills I once had but no longer do, such as picking up an instrument I’ve forgotten or doing some athletic feat that I needed to retrain for. I’ll keep this list updated with them, and may remove them depending on how things go. Thus far I really only have one, but I’m hopeful to add more.

Thanks for following me on this journey! I’m hopeful that this will let me reflect on the passage of time more intentionally. I’m also hopeful that it will mean that next summer, when I⁸⁵ have far too few entries, I’ll use some time to branch out and try new things.

Note 26 October: I’m currently even more⁸⁶ slightly ahead of schedule for skills which is fun! I haven’t had to use this list as motivation yet, but probably soon.

Draft 2: 1 October 2022, added new notes

This year I chose not to participate in a yearly tradition that was titled n for n. While what that initially meant is unimportant, what’s important is that I’ve decided to reincorporate the name. Instead of meaning whatever it used to,⁸⁷ I’m going to try to learn 24 new skills while I’m 24. These can be actual skills, like an instrument or language, or things I just had never done and so had no way to do them. I’ll also include skills I once had but no longer do, such as picking up an instrument I’ve forgotten or doing some athletic feat that I needed to retrain for. I’ll keep this list updated with them, and may remove them depending on how things go. Thus far I really only have one, but I’m hopeful to add more.

Thanks for following me on this journey! I’m hopeful that this will let me reflect on the passage of time more intentionally. I’m also hopeful that it will mean that next summer, when I⁹² have far too few entries, I’ll use some time to branch out and try new things.

Note 1 October: I’m currently slightly ahead of schedule for skills which is fun! At some point I may want to trim down and condense skills, but that’s a problem if I do too well only.

Draft 1

This year I chose not to participate in a yearly tradition that was titled n for n. While what that initially meant is unimportant, what’s important is that I’ve decided to reincorporate the name. Instead of meaning whatever it used to,⁹³ I’m going to try to learn 24 new skills while I’m 24. These can be actual skills, like an instrument or language, or things I just had never done and so had no way to do them. I’ll also include skills I once had but no longer do, such as picking up an instrument I’ve forgotten or doing some athletic feat that I needed to retrain for. I’ll keep this list updated with them, and may remove them depending on how things go. Thus far I really only have one, but I’m hopeful to add more.

Thanks for following me on this journey! I’m hopeful that this will let me reflect on the passage of time more intentionally. I’m also hopeful that it will mean that next summer, when I⁹⁴ have far too few entries, I’ll use some time to branch out and try new things.

e.g. 21 for 21, 22 for 22↩︎
truthfully, who can remember what it meant? /s↩︎
I’m not counting the ones I did in college because the only people who came to them were open-mic performers (open mic-performers?), and I never prepared for them↩︎
I’ve done lots of me singing with a piano and the open mic as mentioned above↩︎
1 October↩︎
also at the open mic last week (26 September) we had a guitarist that we’d only run the songs with once and a drummer who just came on stage for our set, so that’s super cool! (Actually, the two of them added a ton to our musicality)↩︎
Note 3 aug, we’re now up to at least three originals↩︎
Note 3 Aug: not enough for retuning, which is my new issue↩︎
3 Aug: I should get back into this↩︎
3 Aug: two now↩︎
3 Aug: which is currently ranked number around 800/43000some on the site. sadly ratings drop me lower now↩︎
which included writing over 80000 words in the span of about a month↩︎
I mean I guess I had done that when I finished the Writathon, but this one didn’t just do two thirds of its plot in the final chapter.↩︎
Which, in retrospect, maybe doesn’t deserve an exclamation point.↩︎
to at least a very low extent↩︎
Twice now!.↩︎
shockingly I think my first one ever.↩︎
3 Aug: Wild I misspelled it and didn’t notice↩︎
which is a lot I think↩︎
I’ve seen improv before, but I’m almost certain this is the first time I went to an event explicitly for the improv, rather than as a part of other things I was going to (though the pizza at the show certainly helped↩︎
e.g. 21 for 21, 22 for 22↩︎
truthfully, who can remember what it meant? /s↩︎
I’m not counting the ones I did in college because the only people who came to them were open-mic performers (open mic-performers?), and I never prepared for them↩︎
I’ve done lots of me singing with a piano and the open mic as mentioned above↩︎
1 October↩︎
also at the open mic last week (26 September) we had a guitarist that we’d only run the songs with once and a drummer who just came on stage for our set, so that’s super cool! (Actually, the two of them added a ton to our musicality)↩︎
which is currently ranked number 760ish/43000some on the site. sadly ratings drop me lower now↩︎
which isn’t that much different from NaNoWriMo, but I’m counting it↩︎
which included writing over 80000 words in the span of about a month↩︎
Which, in retrospect, maybe doesn’t deserve an exclamation point.↩︎
to at least a very low extent↩︎
which I did before posting this, whoops!↩︎
and did absolutely terribly, but that was half the fun!↩︎
wow I completely spaced that this is a thing that I did...↩︎
which was fun!↩︎
I didn’t really want to include this, because it’s hard for me to admit that I’m not a swimmer anymore. But, it has been well over two years since my last swim I think.↩︎
which I hopefully will muse about after this. (hmm muse versus blog is something I should revisit)↩︎
shockingly I think my first one ever.↩︎
I also think for the first time, but at least in my memory the first time↩︎
I mean I guess I had done that when I finished the Writathon, but this one didn’t just do two thirds of its plot in the final chapter.↩︎
likely↩︎
though it would be funny to have “lived a year as a twenty four year old”, I will refrain.↩︎
like Writathon and Nanowrimo. They’re basically the same entry I think.↩︎
e.g. 21 for 21, 22 for 22↩︎
truthfully, who can remember what it meant? /s↩︎
I’m not counting the ones I did in college because the only people who came to them were open-mic performers (open mic-performers?), and I never prepared for them↩︎
I’ve done lots of me singing with a piano and the open mic as mentioned above↩︎
1 October↩︎
also at the open mic last week (26 September) we had a guitarist that we’d only run the songs with once and a drummer who just came on stage for our set, so that’s super cool! (Actually, the two of them added a ton to our musicality)↩︎
which is currently ranked number 760ish/43000some on the site. sadly ratings drop me lower now↩︎
which isn’t that much different from NaNoWriMo, but I’m counting it↩︎
which included writing over 80000 words in the span of about a month↩︎
Which, in retrospect, maybe doesn’t deserve an exclamation point.↩︎
to at least a very low extent↩︎
which I did before posting this, whoops!↩︎
and did absolutely terribly, but that was half the fun!↩︎
wow I completely spaced that this is a thing that I did...↩︎
which was fun!↩︎
likely↩︎
hey that lowered! then again, most of the tasks I added I had done before 15 May, so this musing is also good as a reflective tool I suppose↩︎
truthfully, who can remember what it meant?↩︎
I’m not counting the ones I did in college because the only people who came to them were open-mic performers (open mic-performers?), and I never prepared for them↩︎
I’ve done lots of me singing with a piano and the open mic as mentioned above↩︎
1 October↩︎
also at the open mic last week (26 September) we had a guitarist that we’d only run the songs with once and a drummer who just came on stage for our set, so that’s super cool! (Actually, the two of them added a ton to our musicality)↩︎
which is currently ranked number 630/43000some on the site↩︎
which isn’t that much different from NaNoWriMo, but I’m counting it↩︎
which included writing over 80000 words↩︎
Which, in retrospect, maybe doesn’t deserve an exclamation point.↩︎
which I added after posting Draft 5, but I doubt anyone read it in the thirty seconds between when it went up and my correction.↩︎
likely↩︎
ope that’s an unlucky number↩︎
interestingly, the first time I wrote today’s draft, that number much higher↩︎
truthfully, who can remember what it meant?↩︎
I’m not counting the ones I did in college because the only people who came to them were open-mic performers (open mic-performers?), and I never prepared for them↩︎
I’ve done lots of me singing with a piano and the open mic as mentioned above↩︎
1 October↩︎
also at the open mic last week (26 September) we had a guitarist that we’d only run the songs with once and a drummer who just came on stage for our set, so that’s super cool! (Actually, the two of them added a ton to our musicality)↩︎
likely↩︎
truthfully, who can remember what it meant?↩︎
I’m not counting the ones I did in college because the only people who came to them were open-mic performers (open mic-performers?), and I never prepared for them↩︎
I’ve done lots of me singing with a piano and the open mic as mentioned above↩︎
1 October↩︎
also at the open mic last week (26 September) we had a guitarist that we’d only run the songs with once and a drummer who just came on stage for our set, so that’s super cool! (Actually, the two of them added a ton to our musicality)↩︎
likely↩︎
isn’t it weird how more slightly means less?↩︎
truthfully, who can remember what it meant?↩︎
I’m not counting the ones I did in college because the only people who came to them were open-mic performers (open mic-performers?), and I never prepared for them↩︎
I’ve done lots of me singing with a piano and the open mic as mentioned above↩︎
1 October↩︎
also at the open mic last week (26 September) we had a guitarist that we’d only run the songs with once and a drummer who just came on stage for our set, so that’s super cool! (Actually, the two of them added a ton to our musicality)↩︎
likely↩︎
truthfully, who can remember what it meant?↩︎
likely↩︎

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