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Weekly review: Week ending November 23, 2012

Temperatures are dropping! Time to break out the winter gear.

From last week’s plans

Business

  • [X] Earn: E1 – social business consulting – Tue, Wed, Thu
  • [X] Earn: Draw banner for Lean Startup Day at MaRS (Fri)
  • [C] Connect: Sketchnote Rotman event
  • [X] Connect: Interview another virtual assistant
  • [X] Connect: Reconnect with Sameer Vasta
  • [X] Connect: Talk to Bilal Jaffery about tweetchats
  • [X] Connect: Participate in/sketchnote Girl Geeks Toronto discussion night
  • [X] Connect: Discuss helping Girl Geeks Toronto out
  • [X] Connect: Sketchnote Entrepreneurship 101
  • [X] Connect: Sketchnote Venus Ventures Town Hall, or take a break that evening?
  • [X] Build: Go to art classes
  • [X] Build: Touch base with Ces regarding delegated tasks
  • [X] Build: Deploy the Quantified Self meetup mapper!
  • [P] Build: Work with freelancer to add more features to the meetup mapper
  • [P] Build: Do another Rockstar Scribe lesson
  • E1: Recorded voiceover, cool!
  • Connect: Talked to Stephan Spencer about delegation
  • Posted processes, business ideas at http://sachachua.com/business
  • Posted more sketchnote speed-drawing videos

Relationships

  • [X] Play LEGO Lord of the Rings
  • [X] Set up regular date nights with W-

Life

  • [X] Attend women’s self-defense course

Plans for next week

Business

  • [ ] Earn: H: Revise presentation
  • [ ] Earn: H: Send invoice
  • [ ] Earn: H: Give presentation
  • [ ] Earn: E1: Wrap up consulting before December break
  • [ ] Build: Got my notice of assessment, paid a little extra tax
  • [ ] Build: Attend art class
  • [ ] Build: Sketchnote content marketing webinar
  • [ ] Build: Learn about launching online businesses
  • [ ] Connect: Have lunch with Scott and Nolin, discuss sketchnotes
  • [ ] Connect: Attend Awesome Foundation pitch night
  • [ ] Connect: Sketchnote Entrepreneurship 101

Relationships

  • [X] Cook a lot!
  • [ ] Spend time together relaxing
  • [ ] Put package together for family

Life

  • [ ] Attend women’s self-defense course

Short URL: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/24062

On This Day...

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  • 2007: Another day, another blog — Starting yet another blog because I want something that I can update and cross-post from anywhere and I haven’t quite [...]
  • 2006: Friday night at a cafe — You gotta love this life. Friday night at a cafe, hot chocolate with my best friend, plenty of good books [...]
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  • 2006: Gotta check out wesabe — No one in Web 2.0 can spell. But Wesabe looks interesting. It’s a Web 2.0 budget tracking thing with tips. [...]
  • 2006: Live music at the Linux Caffe — There are few things in life that are better than finding out that one of your favorite cafes has live music [...]
  • 2006: Oh, wow — Have I mentioned yet how much I *love* the University of Toronto library? Full-text access to the Harvard Business Review, hello… Random [...]
  • 2005: National novel-writing month? Try paper-writing week! — I’ve convinced myself that it will actually be possible to write the two major papers due first week of December within [...]
  • 2004: Japanese input methods and Emacspeak — prime-el and skk don’t work with Emacspeak. quail’s the only thing that seems to work, but the completion is dodgy. I [...]
  • 2004: Orientation — If there are any matters, ask Kondo. 11th onwards, Kojima will come back to YKC. We’re borrowing computers again! This will be [...]
  • 2004: Don’t lose remember buffers when closing Emacs — (defun ajk/my-cleanup-then-save-buffers-kill-emacs (&optional arg) "Clean up before saving buffers and killing Emacs." (interactive "P") ;; stop here [...]
  • 2003: The potato misadventures — Eric accompanied me shopping today. He was thinking about living on his own, so he was quite curious about my CookOrDie [...]
  • 2003: Useful teaching and learning resources — http://www.cetl.gatech.edu/resources/publications.htm

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