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Summer of Lisa Activities

1/12/2014

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Last summer, I challenged myself to do something difficult. I challenged myself to go out and do something every day during the summer season. It sounds simple. It's not. You get tired and don't feel like it. But I did some stuff that I normally wouldn't have done, and maybe learned some things on the way. I may do it again this year. We'll see.

6/21/13 (First day of Summer!): took the dog to the beach, watched Ben Bratt's Blood In, Blood Out
6/22/13: Went to a script reading and potluck dinner with friends.
6/23/13: Brunch at West Coast Tavern. Taking the pup to dog beach. Fundraising beers atTiger! Tiger!
6/24/13: Organ Festival at Spreckels Organ Pavilion
6/25/13: Finished reading a novel: Two Rivers by T. Greenwood, Meditation class
6/26/13: $1 screening of The Neverending Story, Padres vs. Phillies (14 innings!)
6/27/13: Private studio tour at Sony, wonderful lunch at Wildcraft Pizza
6/28/13: Watched This Is The End
6/29/13: Went to a writing class taught by author John Vorhaus
6/30/13: Went to a meeting of San Diego film festivals
7/01/13: Went to the San Diego County Fair for the first time
7/02/13: Had lunch at the Soup Shoppe with a friend
7/03/13: Went to see The Heat
7/04/13: Gardening! Trimmed the lemon tree, took care of the vegetable garden, banana tree, and so on.
7/05/13: Went to see a one-woman show at San Diego Fringe Fest
7/06/13: Went to a workshop meetup  at the Psychic Gym
7/07/13: Sunday Writers at Writers Ink, visited Museum of Photographic Art exhibit
7/08/13: Went to Stone Brewery's new location at Liberty Station
7/09/13: Watched The Lone Ranger
7/10/13: Did a radio interview for KSDS and had a Cravory cookie. Yum!
7/11/13: Took a walk at Lake Murray with a friend
7/12/13: Walked around Balboa Park
7/13/13: Went to Tiger! Tiger! with friends, watched Sharknado
7/14/13: Went to a workshop on Permaculture, learned about Air-layering and T-bud grafting trees
7/15/13: Gong meditation class
7/16/13: Comedy show at Lestat's Coffee House
7/17/13: Steak dinner and Red Fox Steakhouse
7/18/13: Comic-Con!
7/19/13: Volunteering for Boys and Girls Club of East County
7/20/13: Comic-Con!
7/21/13: Comic-con!
7/22/13: Went to see RIPD
7/23/13: Went to Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night at South Park Abbey
7/24/13: Went to a friend's 50th birthday party
7/25/13: Met with a friend at Splash! then went to Bazaar Noir, The Neighborhood, and Noble Experiment
7/26/13: I got sick over the weekend and had to cut down to essentials only. Sad.
7/27/13: Still sick.
7/28/13: Went to see The Wolverine
7/29/13: Went to a cultural branding workshop
7/30/13: Movie marathon: The Dark Crystal, The Last Unicorn, The Secret of Nimh
7/31/13: Literally worked all day...
8/01/13: Saw Pacific Rim
8/02/13: Tried Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes
8/03/13: Killed a Fig tree. But then made cuttings to grow new Fig trees.
8/04/13: Saw The Rainmaker at The Old Globe
8/05/13: watched Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead
8/06/13: watched Despicable Me 2 and had drinks with a friend at Gordon Biersch
8/07/13: Met a friend for wine at Kensington Vine
8/08/13: went to see Blue Jasmine
8/09/13: Filmmaker meeting at Gordon Biersch, Dinner at Pizza Port
8/10/13: Went to play: Spaceman of Ocean Beach
8/11/13: I have no recollection of this day. Hmm.
8/12/13: walked on the beach with the dog and friends, then went and had drinks with both (although my dog is definitely a Teetotaler)
8/13/13: watched Blue Velvet
8/14/13: worked late. Sad face.
8/15/13: went to a faculty meeting at City College
8/16/13: read grant proposals
8/17/13: went to an awful workshop. I can't even talk about it. Traumatic.

That's all there is. I know I'm a little over 30 days short of the end of actual summer, but oh well. Things got a little crazy in August, and I just couldn't do it any longer. So there you go. Mark your

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