Hundred
Counting on my fingers it appears this is my hundredth blog post here. I've settled into a four/five times a week rhythm that feels comfortable and sustainable.
When I wrote about convincing myself to blog the other week I said I don't often blog about blogging so I'm not going to again.
I'm going to talk about the other part: the hundred.
Does this count as Do 100 Thing? Going to admit when I first heard of this my immediate thought was it was just 100 things. Different things. Which would be fun also. But I get it. Do the thing 100 times.
The point of Do 100 Thing is "If you want to do something, do a lot of it." For me that is very true. I like an apprenticeship. Also an immunisation.
A hundred posts in I definitely feel more comfortable. Ideas come easier. I worry less. I know I can go back and edit and I've not irreparably broken anything - yet.
When I set up this site I didn't expect to be blogging as much as I have. I liked Bearblog in large part because of the pages and that it was possible not to blog at all. I was envisaging more of the digital garden style. So I should get back on that! This week I've made The Wikipedia and a Calendar of Fun Web Things and I'm working on more.
In that blogging post I idly referenced how many times I might have posted fic but I can never idly reference anything so I calculated: 136. That's how many times I've sweated over the post button. So, chapters. Which is nothing compared to so many people! But feels a lot to this one person (me) and yet also so much still to do. It's over a hundred, though.
I'm not quite there with running D&D (eighty-six sessions). I learn French every day but I'm not sure I've done a hundred of any discrete thing - maybe that's something to look into. In another three years and eight months I'll have watched this film a hundred times.
For my own amusement, some maths:
- A hundred days is just over three months. Which is also a nice unit. A season.
- There's 20 to 23 weekdays in a month so five days a week would be five months maximum.
- To do something a hundred times in a year is obviously every 3.65 days.
- A hundred weeks is one year eleven months.
- A hundred months is eight years and four months.
This has given me an idea about going swimming a hundred times before an event next year.
Not that I'm going around looking for things to hundredise. It's just a very satisfying number. Not applicable to everything but the concept is. Patience. Practice. Persistence.