What is in progress?

The name of this site is Work In Progress, which raises the question*, “What is in progress?” Quite a lot is in progress, actually. Since many of you are keen to keep up with the everyday adventures of the plans and adventures I’m working on, I will begin posting a bit more about key projects that are in progress. Here’s what they are.

• Become fluent in Danish.
  This comes straight off my Dream List. I decided that it’s something I can achieve and more over, it’s something that I want to achieve right now. So I’m making that happen. I have a two-pronged benchmark for success: one quantitative, one qualitative. (1) Conduct a 15-minute casual conversation with a native Danish speaker for 15 minutes and (2) speak primarily Danish for 6 consecutive months while living in Denmark. I’m still on Level 1 of Rosetta Stone and I’m confident as ever that this will happen.
• Create products for public consumption.
  This is a combination of items off my dream list (film & photography) and is also inspired by my reason for leaving my office job to work for myself: I want to create again. I’ve begun some simple shirt designs (in addition to the Legalize Trans* campaign), am in post-production on a documentary, and of course write for this site. My goal, for now, is to have 1,000 people consume the various products I create.
• Run 5 miles in 32:30
  My first (and only) race was a 5-miler which I completed in 37:59 in June. To beat that time, I’ll need to shave off a little more than a minute from my per-mile pace.

Other exciting projects include my on-going involvement with Sanctuary Collective and my design & development business (which increasingly includes marketing & PR) Be Gee M. I’ll be traveling a bit over the next few months (more on that later) and so I will include some adventures from working on the road.

That should keep me busy. Anything else you’d like updates and information on? If so, let me know in the comments below.

* Note: It does not beg the question. Begging the question is a rhetorical fallacy. Often people say “begs the question” when they mean “raises the question”–usually they say it to sound fancy. It’s not fancy, it’s wrong </English lesson>

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