What are your aims for the summer months?

dysfunct

I've just moved home from meh college house for the summer and i was in a kind of post drinking binge time of clarity.
So i was thinking who better to share this with.

Anyway, for the summer, i plan to:
draw more,
learn the guitar,
drink a little less,
eat healthier,
get my full drivers license,
learn to fly,
go to Witnness,
learn how to have a serious conversation,
work out daily,
earn muchos cash,
climb everest,
learn how to program in C so i will have a clue when i go back to repeat the year,
learn more java + html,
watch less tv,
listen to more music,

i was sure i had more.....

seamus

Make money
drink
Repeat exams
drink
Learn php
drink
Get some sort of band going
drink
Get back on my BMX
drink
Set up my first real website
drink
*Not* crash my new motorbike
drink

I also intend to drink a little more than I did last year.....:)

Thorbar

I intend to take it easy:)

Makaveli

Continue to feed my ever growing dvd addiction, it's now nearly as bad as my cd addiction. So I guess that means earning a lot of money.

rymus

1. Stop working 12 hour shifts over the weeked (may require getting a better job)
2. Drive around the country (or part of it anyway) on my bike if the weather gets nice for more than 2 days at a time
3. Rediscover my love of that marvellous creation - the beer garden
4. Pass my driving test
5. Learn the rules of the road before I take my driving test
6. Invent some new & challenging sexual positions with the help of my girlfriend
7. Try not to spend every penny I have in the bank
8. Stop making lists

SYL

Weening myself out of work in prep. for going back to Uni in the autumn...its going to be sweet.
Oh yeah, that and go to Moscow on hols.

Wook

be the kingpin of CS
kill the irish top 1 clan single handed
make more money
spend more money
annoy more people
be more arrogant
spend quality time on Boards.ie

Enygma

Simple:
if (waves)
{
goSurfing();
}
else
{
stayAtWork();
}
eat();

WhiteWashMan

probably go to work a lot.
sit on the internet.
maybe go on holiday.

the usual.

DeadBankClerk

[php]
while (true) // We want to eat more than once
{
if (waves)
{
goSurfing();
}
else
{
stayAtWork();
}
eat();
}
[/php]

Makes the summer last longer

GoneShootin

1. Head to Paris with the missus for a few days
2. Finish the 4 websites i took on last month
3. Finalize discussions with the prospective boss and start work
4. Learn extry compu stuff heeyuk
5. Play lotsa TFC [and watever other game comes along]
6. Try and go for the extra driving liscences. Like Ridgid and Artic Trucks
7. Chance an advanced driving test
8. karting in watergrasshill
9. paintball in either kerry [or wherevers best]

EvilGeorge

I'm going to attack the MET office and get us some SUN!!!
Then spend a lot of time at the beach (might have to clean it a bit first though).

Book some holidays from work then and dunno where to go this year, maybe just tour a bit.

yellum

Go to Witnness, go to Sigur Ros in Galway, go to Bristol (and maybe go ballooning )

Read the 20 or so books I bought in the past few months. Go to the theatre more. Learn some db and asp/php skills.

Increase fitness to the point where I can do 40mins on a running machine at a speed where a granny can't walk faster.

Enygma

Then spend a lot of time at the beach (might have to clean it a bit first though).

Yeah, reports like this are just frightening, stay inside those blue flags folks!

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2002/0524/661389480HM5WATER.html

Overall we seem to be ok, but how long before people aren't allowed into the water? In San Diego you can't swim for 72 hours after heavy rain because of the bacteria in the water!

ToxicPaddy

eat - sleep - eat - work - eat - drink - eat - sleep - eat - work - eat - drink - eat - sleep - eat - work - eat - drink - eat - sleep - eat - work - eat - drink - eat - sleep - eat - work - eat - drink - eat - sleep - eat - work - eat - drink - eat - sleep - eat - work - eat - drink - eat - sleep - eat - work - eat - drink - eat - sleep - eat - work - eat - drink - eat - sleep - eat - work - eat - drink - eat - sleep - eat - work - eat - drink - eat - sleep - eat - work - eat - drink - eat - sleep - eat - work - eat - drink...

And watch some TV in between all this...


not going on hols till october so have to wait till then for some fun..

BuffyBot

Eat
Exercise (to burn off what I've eaten)
Buy more CD's and DVD's
Buy new PC
Get promoted/new job/move somewhere cooler

Thats about it....

....and avoid work if at all possible

Pepe LeFrits

go to Greece

Shad0r

Enjoy the sun (if there is any )

po0k

1. Get a job in computers/lan cafe/9-5@E8 an hour/labouring @ E65 a day
2. Have a few LANs
3. Get pished with mates
4. Go to gigs, concerts, festivals and Prague
5. Tour Ireland for a bit.
6. Get a WAN connection.
7. Sleep
8. Improve meh website design skills/C programming ability/learn PHP (again)/teach myself JAVA
9. Sit back in contentment and laugh at the minions beneath me.

pauldeehan

Take my driving test.

Work part time to earn money.

Get out more.

Shinji

Move house. Launch new work project. Go back to Ireland a few times and get bladdered. Lots more work. Go to some parties. Fair bit more work. Some sleep (not much mind). Bit of weight loss (argh). Buy more tech toys to offset the nastyness of summer weather

Bard

I've not even planned 2 months ahead... but that goes like this: Sell a couple of web sites, make a load of money, work in the bar, watch the World Cup, go to Spain for just over 2 weeks and get burned to a crisp, come back and start planning again...

Victor

Cycle.
Loose weight.
Get away from people.

El_Presidente

Work every hour God gives me to save enough money to move into DCU for my final year of college. (I'm doing that right now in fact).

Play guitar and dream of moving out...

mise

come home to dublin,
thats all thats on my mind at the moment,

Bateman

Go home to good ol' Àth Cliath. Work. Play. Drink. Go to football. Go to Witnness.

Jambo

go to greece spain portugal italy gibraltar and morocco for 2 months in 5 weeks time !!!!!!!!!

Kali

- well one thing i wanted to do was learn to play the guitar.. been doing that for the past few weeks...
- keep weight-training regularly (i have a habit of stopping and starting too much).
- go to roger waters on monday 24th june then off to glastonbury on the 26th to the 30th, head up to bristol for a few nights clubbing then onto enchanted gardens the following weekend july 5th-7th (all booked bar mr. waters).
- get a proper job (one day a week just won't hack it for too much longer).
- move out with two mates to an apartment in town end of july.
- probably some sun-holiday on the horizon as well.. mid-oct. probs.

fizzy

well i'm just finished my finals so i am looking forward to a long summer of relaxation with plenty of lie-ins where you end up not having a clue what day it is after a while :cool:

i'm also looking forward to lots of time on the internet, hopefully learning more web design stuff too especially flash

watching ireland win the world cup would be a great start!

OLDYELLAR

im going to try and get a few more hours in work so that i can make enough money for the trade in on me scooter , oh yeah passing the repeat exams would be a good idea i guess .

bugler

I'm aiming for two out of the following three.

1) Get really fit again.

2) Learn to speak Arabic

3) Learn to play the guitar.

I have an inkling it will be 1 & 2.

GreenHell

1. Get job
2. Go vist G/F up the country a few times
3.Go visit flatmates from around the country for one big piss up somewhere
4.Go to galway arts, dunno when its on, but I'm going
5.Play lots of hurling
6. save money.

plastic membrane

1) Hope i got back into college
2) Watch the world cup
3) Welcome my Godson into the world
4) Go to Witnness
5) Mow down everybody i work with an AK-47 in blood drenched mayhem, blood spurting....wait, i've said too much..

Dont be at yourself

1) Get drunk.
2) Sleep.

Dave

I plan to....

Get a job
Consume large amounts of alcohol
Get my full licence
Go on a holiday to the sun
Take back up karate and join the gym again
Learn how to play the aul guitar

The Sweeper

Things to do this summer: get life.

Kalina

1: Earn money
2: Finish Grand Theft Auto 3
3: Start eating healthily- I'm lucky I survived on what I ate for the past 9 months in college
4: Catch up with friends that I've lost contact with
5: Get fit

Mercury_Tilt

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scuzzy

1) Go to Witnness
2) Finish my album :rolleyes:
3) Stand in one place for an entire day a la David Blaine.
4) Learn to play Thunder And Lightning (Thin Lizzy, Gary Moore) on guitar.
5) Get a job.
6) Buy a proper drum kit.
7) Go busking.
8) Jump off the cliffs of Moher (is that possible?)
9) Stuff.

deco

Hmm...I really don't believe in setting goals...most of the time they just go unfullfilled....

More intrested in grabing any oportunity that presents itself

If one does:)

TacT

I plan on enjoying the sun and getting extremely pissed, oh yeah and them exams.....hmmmmmmm :rolleyes:

skate (board)
Windsurf
Wakeboard
Spear fish
and travel over spain and france for 3 weeks
:rolleyes: damn those exams have to be done at some stage too

Mossy Monk

1) learn stuff :mad:
2) go on the piss
3) go to the Munster Final
4) have a BBQ
5) do nothing
6) travel on the bus 5 days a week :mad:
7) try and go on holidays

adnans

meet more relations/family that i dont know.

enjoy a lesbian relationship.

cook.

hold my breath more then one minute under water.

reunite a band that has split up for a super gig in a private sex room!

grow some hair on my head.

adnans

PHB

1. Get very fit again, i.e go to the free school gym every day between july-august before tennis.
2. Make more friends and catch up with old ones
3. Learn how to play the guitar
4. Complete a very good set of notes on all my subjects for LC
5. Drink lots with friends
6. Throw a huge party
7. Go to Poland then onto prague

Mystic Fibrosis

1: Relarn how to read music(i swear, i've had to do this 5 times)
2:Extend my knowledge of C/C++/Java/PERL/php/BASIC/linux/unix/Guitar(learn more of the theory,scales,stop using C,F,A#,D#,F ,C tuning, find out if ANYONE makes left-handed 7-strings
3:buy a titanium g4:)
4:earn more g0dd@m $$$
5: Meet more people in CTYI
6:bring down Vodafone

Tazz T

Try to stay sane.

SheroN

I bet none of ye will do half of what ye planned. What's the moral?...Planning isn't good!

stormkeeper

I have my summer hols planned... Do my ECDL and MOUS Courses... lol

Seriously, i don't get any breaks until september, then i may consider college....

castie

im planning on working my ass off till august then going to australia for a month to see my brother who has been there for 7 months now

phoenix2181

killing the people on my list, with a high powered sniper rifle....besides that well....just chatting up the ladies

Man U babe

Get through the LC
Decide whats going on my cao change of mind form (maths or engineering or computers, any ideas?)
Get drunk for my 18th on the 24th of june
Go on holidays
Go to puck fair with my friends
Get drunk for LC results
Do more karate (get closer to that senior black belt)
Learn java (I still have my ctyi book from my 2 days in comp apps 2000)
Get a job
Start learning to drive
Save money for college
Watch Ireland win the world cup
and lots of sleeping.