I wrote down a bunch of plans while I was on the airplane over the break. Some of them are even good!
Here is a tentative spread of plans for the first quarter marathon:
- Sewing: Test a sockless snitch tail
- Sewing: Sew the small weights I have acquired from my parents’ house into custom ankle weights
- Video: Fix the 3rd bludger videos that have some errors in them
- Web Design: Work on this website
- Quidditch equipment: Test the properties of resin and how it works with wood, potentially to make resin-covered wooden quidditch bases ($$$)
And a couple other things that could be done (important to have more than the minimum!):
- Video: Cover an entire course in a 1-hour video (couldn’t shoot it in one take though sadly, plus I might be a wreck for the camera with all the running)
- Cooking: Pick a set of cookies and try making them (if the oven isn’t clean, try making a quarter batch in the toaster oven lol). Ideally pick one out ahead of time but that’s potentially $$ (if I don’t pick one ahead of time, have to make them with what we have at home which could be interesting)
- Sewing: try making a towel belt for quidditch (and hopefully make it look cool!)
There’s so much more! Writing them down helps keep them from being forgotten.
Also as far as dates, I planned the first one for Feb 1, on the following logic:
- Not happening next weekend (1/18) since we’re going to Austin on Saturday
- Not happening the following weekend (1/25) since Leslie’s visiting
- Maybe happening that following weekend (2/1)???
- Since that’s the first weekend it’s possible, it may not be ready yet, pushing back to 2/8 might be good, assuming there’s anything left of me after the STEM Expo the day before…)
- BUT! Since I just remembered that MLKJ Holiday is 1/20, maybe I can pull it off next weekend after all?? I’m skeptical since tomorrow is the first week of classes (1/13-17) and I will probably be really tired afterwards. But it’s possible!
- That only works if I have time this upcoming week to put plans together for the activities. I’m notorious for thinking I’ll have time for things during the week and then not having that time, so I’m skeptical, like I said. But it’s worth a try!
Wish me luck!