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KATE MCKINNON AND LESLIE JONES WANT ME DEAD

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I like how the back of the clocks look sad! 

I am in heaven

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Doing It with Some Excellent Cheeses

So ... yeah, we've had Do-It Club for the past few weeks, even though I haven't been updating the tumblr. Sorry about that ... Anyway, this week was fun! Elizabeth is excellent at picking out cheese and Rebecca recited a part of a poem for us. 

WHAT DID WE DO? WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?

Elizabeth: didn't get it done.

For Next Week: teach WNYC Robin gmail, go to both libraries, choose what to see in Florence, and play piano for two hours. 

Sahar: didn't get it done. 

For Next Week: back up my files, finish calendar cover design, drop off dry cleaning, work out three times, and send packages. 

Kim: Didn't finish. 

For Next Week: continue editing photos, thank you notes, and unclog sink. 

Rebecca: Didn't finish. 

For Next Week: go back to lamp warehouse, get baby present, and memorize second stanza of poem, take computer in. 

Cynthia: got it done! But she didn't come in person. 

For Next Week: Pack sketchbook and present for DC, call Sarah/Nate and coordinate dinner, look at ARE appointment times for October, and pack lunch every day this week.

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Doing it After a Date

Sorry, this is coming so late! We're actually have Do It Club tonight ... so yeah, we're doing Do-It Club on Mondays now. Mark your calendars, y'all. 

Last week's Do It Club was fun! Rebecca showed us all the racist lamps on eBay (THERE ARE SO MANY) and Jenny showed up to tell us about her date. 

SO what the hell do we want to do this week?

Sahar: exercise three times, pay sales tax, send calendar to printer, and renew mom's subscription to Wired. Elizabeth: finish book club book, redo copy on website, and banking things. Rebecca: buy ticket to DC, buy soap dispenser, fix goblin house (yep), buy some lamps, and email some people.

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Doing It Quickly

Take a bag of food to the Greenpoint Church for their food bank, call her insurance and make them pay her dentist, attempt to roll over her 401Ks, hit unsubscribe on every emails she gets this week that she wants to unsubscribe from and take out the recyclingI abandoned this week's Do it Club fairly quickly since I had to go home to read like 100 pages of Wretched of the Earth. Please learn from my mistakes, don't ready 100 pages of Wretched of the Earth in a day unless you want to carry a weight in your heart for the rest of the week. 

ANYWAY. Here's what's up:

Sahar: I didn't get it done. :(

For Next Week: work out twice, link this and this to my site, send LIndsay calendar files, email Mike to be like ... let's do business, buy a suitcase, and write three OkC messages.

Robin: Got it done!

For Next Week: unpack her crap, call her film developer, call BAM, floss teeth three times, and email Anja.

Rebecca: Got it done!

For Next Week: Finish Wretched of the Earth, take in her dry cleaning, spend one hour cleaning her house, go through old clothes, and email Liz and Donna. 

Allyson: Couldn't make it in person, but look at this rad list she's been working on! 

For Next Week: Take a bag of food to the Greenpoint Church for their food bank, call her insurance and make them pay her dentist, attempt to roll over her 401Ks, hit unsubscribe on every emails she gets this week that she wants to unsubscribe from and take out the recycling.

Elizabeth: Got it done! 

For Next Week: call Greyhound and State Farm, finish the book club book and the Google testing book, fix her Tumblr theme, update her website, and pack/leave for her conference on Monday. 

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Doing it with Root Beer floats

Allyson finally came! That was exciting. She also brought fixings for root beef floats. When she said root beer floats, a twinkle appeared in Rebecca's eyes and her mouth fell agape. It's was a sweet sight to behold. 

ANYWAY: What did we do? 

Sahar: I didn't get it done

For Next Week: if I take my computer to Seattle, I have to work and I am going to read some Wretched of the Earth (henceforth referred to as WOFE), and mail package. 

Elizabeth: didn't get it done

For Next Week: chose new fonts for website, try to figure out how to make the fonts responsive, do laundry, and read 100 pages of WOTE. 

Rebecca: Didn't get it done! But she was being being a player, so props to her!

For Next Week: spend an hour cleaning her desk, apply for a job, read WOTE, and clean messenger bag. 

Allyson: Finally came! Yay!

For Next Week: Draft three blog posts, pay utility bills and email roommates, and call grandma.

Jenny: Got it done!

For Next Week: buy pug dress in black, mail old roommate jury duty letter, three or four small tubes of sunscreen, buy traveler's insurance, and buy water bottle.

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Doing It with Carlos Danger

This week's Do It Club was just me and Rebecca. I brought us a quart of ice cream and a six pack of beer because it was just one of those days. 

Sahar: Did not get it done! 

For Next Week: send Tippler invoice, start Wretched of the Earth, work on veggie calendar and work on meat calendar, think about making an animated gif. 

Rebecca: Got it done! She even dusted! 

For Next Week: spend two cleaning and organizing shit in her room, read 1/2 a day, fix a bra, email Italian company to buy replacement part for bookshelf, get rid of bike rack. 

Elizabeth: Got it done!

For Next Week: She's in Maine on vacation, so her do its this week are pretty easy breezy: do things outside, read inside if it rains.

Robin: She won tickets to Shakespeare in the Park so she abandoned us for that. She also didn't get it done. 

For Next Week: do morning exercises four times, floss four times, email friends about visiting, put laundry away, change sheets, email people in Mexico, clean up stuff subletter's room, figure out where to stay in Mexico city, return library books, email roommates about money, cancel gym membership, and do Grace Paley Organizing Fellowship application. 

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Doing It in a Dump Truck

Last week was fun. We ate watermelon and carrot salad and talked about boys. We love two things: fibrous treats and drama! Rebecca played us music so pretentious and esoteric ... we thought it was a dump truck outside.

What did we do? What should we do?

Elizabeth: Done!

For Next Week: get picnic shit together and make a packing list for her upcoming week in Maine. 

Rebecca: Did an okay job of getting shit done. Didn't quite finish.

For Next Week: go to the bank, dust, check the wrestling website again, go to Costco, apply for more jobs, and buy extension cord. 

Sahar: Got it done! 

For Next Week:  Update Mort Blog, work out three times, send the Tippler an invoice, and do three hours of work on MEC. 

Robin: Got it done! 

For Next Week: do morning exercises four times, floss three times, email Zack about Philly and Anja about visiting, put laundry away, change sheets, email people in Mexico, paint toenails, turn the volume of her clock radio up so I can hear her alarm over the fan in the morning. 

Jenny: Got it done!

For Next Week: email her old boss and read more articles.

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When I get something crossed off my to-do list

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Trying to Do It off the G Line

Do It Club has been ... impotent for a while due to the fact that our members have lives, etc. So, I am very pleased to see us back together and ready to start doing it with a vengeance. We're all starting from scratch this week. 

OUR NEW DO ITS. 

Elizabeth: get gmail inbox to 0, read book club book by Tuesday, and plan her week in Maine. 

Sahar: send Genevieve package, email MEC with web updates, and start Mail Chimp account. 

Rebecca: go to the bank, recycle textiles, read Labyrinths, make dentist appointment, and make jeggings into shorts. 

Robin: morning exercises twice, pay utilities, do laundry, read Labyrinths, respond to Krazy Kenny ®, decide whether to do a week of Spanish lessons while in Mexico. 

Jenny: update passport and health insurance info for birthright and read journal articles.

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Doing It at the Moth

This week,  I canceled Do It Club so that Elizabeth and I could go to the Moth. We got fancy reserved seats like the public radio ballers we are. 

Our Do Its this Week: 

Cynthia: Got it done!

For Next Week: Iron dyed fabric and prep for sewing, send fathers day card, look into contact lens purchase, start insurance talk with boss, go to jury duty.

Elizabeth: Didn't get it done.

For Next Week: For this week: finish book club books, get glasses tightened, do laundry, and make appointment with financial adviser.

Sahar: once again my life is in shambles because I took on more than I can do with out having some sort of breakdown. I wish yoga made me relaxed instead of angry. 

For Next Week: finish one of my book club books, pay sales tax, make two more animated .gifs, replace Robin's copy of Torpor if it dries weird, and work out three times. 

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Doing It Frantically

So, I didn't update last week because I forgot. So sue me! The past few months have been hectic for the Do It Clubbers. We're all busy! This week only Rebecca and I were around in person. 

Rebecca: Didn't get it done!

For Next Week: read for five hours, clean/organize for three hours, and journal five times for 15 minutes. 

Sahar: Didn't get it done neither. 

For Next Week: clean the apartment, make more .gifs, work out three times, send package to Nassim, contact buyers, and bother Ronald McDonald. 

Elizabeth: didn't get it done.

For Next Week: obtain book club books, read one book club book, return library books, and hang things on walls.

Elana: Launchpad is spending her summer in El Paso making the world a better place, but she still wants to participate in Do It Club. 

For Next Week: book flight to Mexico for trip with Robin, figure out class schedule for next semester, organize her gmail, and buy a book. 

Cynthia: Got it done!

For Next Week: Follow up with DR about arm brace, figure out where to buy fabric dye near her office, make iced coffee at home to bring to work, and do time on CPM before work.

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Doing it Without Me

I was frantically reading Infinite Jest in preparation of our pretentious book club, so I could not make it in person. But I did finish the big ol' brick of a book this morning. Mazel Tov, me!  This is what Rebecca wrote about it: 

Rebecca is a disappointment. BOOOO. For next week, she is going to get back on the horse and:

buy a new tube patch kit and patch tubes

journal for at least 15 minutes 4 times

throw out the lamp that i broke a while ago

read The Least of All Possible Evils (so I can give it back to Amanda)

renew driver's license

Elizabeth is a princess and GOT IT DONE (counting finishing up a do it during meeting time). For next week, she will:

actually hang things the walls this time (because she 

read travel books from the library in preparation for this summer's trips

get gmail inbox to 0 (reading poetry bro's lit mag)

do 5 hours of code academy

Robin will have gotten it done by the end of meeting time, too, so HUZZAH. For next week, she shall:

call hostel to find out if she can arrive in the middle of the night

floss 4 times

work out in the morning 3 times

share roommate posting with people

Addendum: jk robin didn't get it done because we talked too much about bikes before club started and now she has to go home boooooo

What about the rest of us? 

Sahar: I did not get it done because my life got weird (in a good way).

For Next Week: work out three times, start a new book, send Nassim a package, bug/thank blog that featured us last week, and get a Vine account for EI. 

Cynthia: She got it done! But she couldn't make it to Do It Club in person because she has to work extra hard to take off work for … her elbow surgery! That's a pretty hardcore part of your body to break, Cynthia!

For Next Week:  work out CPM machine situation, set up appointment for PT post surgery, reschedule eye doctor appointment, mail Nate our sketchbook, and email new health insurance people my doctor list. 

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Doing it at Elizabeth's for the First Time

Elizabeth hosted Do It Club for the first time in a long time. She just moved to her new place in Greenpoint and in typical Elizabeth-style, it is very cute. She also got us fresh baguette from Baltazar because she loves us and wants us to be happy. Rebecca ate bunch of cheese and told us about this poorly named, poorly run organization. Robin told us about her transition to living life as an autistic witch and I mostly harassed Elizabeth into see all these animated gifs I was working on. 

What are we working on! 

Sahar: I got it done! 

For Next Week: four hours of Infinite Jest, work out three times, get a hold of the landlady regarding our drain issues, start meat calendar design, three hours of Kate's site, and gather receipts. 

Robin: got it done!

For Next Week: work out three times, floss three times, send up to step verification on gmail, call hostel in Cape Cod, buy bus ticket, transfer book marks from Nook to hard copy of Infinite Jest, send hat guy on OkCupid a message being all "hey!" and start organizing Do it Club trip. 

Rebecca: did not get it done, but was close … allegedly. 

For Next Week: clean desk to find slips, do yoga three times, make a dental cleaning appointment, cook one new recipe, and read "so much"I Infinite Jest (page 900). 

Elizabeth: got it done! 

For next week: get to 95% of Infinite Jest, hang things on the walls, measure things that need to be framed, stamps on postcards, and start organizing Do it Club trip. 

Cynthia: She had to work last night and she took last week off of Do It Club. 

For Next Week: Send YL the new IDP workbook, begin one new sketchbook spread, call insurance about pre-cert, and make a list of things that need to happen before elbow surgery. 

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Doing it with a Raging Asshole

Last night's Do It Club was pretty fun. We had fresh strawberries. Rebecca related a dramatic story from her bike repair shop. I opined how hot a man would have to be to make up for being pro-life. Elizabeth tried to find a new laundry bag. 

What was done? What are we doing? 

Elizabeth: Got it done!

For Next Week: read 100 pages of Infinite Jest, work on website, check contract for freelance work, order some stuff for her new apartment, and order bathrobe. 

Rebecca: Didn't get it done. :(

For Next Week: four hours of IJ, yoga thrice, take in textile recycling, bug super about repairs. 

Sahar: I did not get it done because I didn't want to do some of the stuff on my list. 

For Next Week: work on EI tumblr project, four hours Infinite Jest, update meat plan, go to the gym three times, and pay Robin back for Cheryl ticket. 

Cynthia: Got it done! But didn't make it in person because she forgot it was Tuesday. Her bad. 

For Next Week: Her parents are in town, so she's taking the week off from Do-Its.

Robin: Got it done! But was out activist-ing on Tuesday.

For Next Week: floss, pay utilities, go to the gym at least twice and buy jeans. 

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Doing It with One Itchy Boob

We finally had a Do It Club with people in it! I made nachos, Robin regaled us with stories about her grandmother was named "Sandy Beach," Elizabeth told us an inside joke about how the Jello factory is boring, and Rebecca ate some old cake and then immediately ceased to make any sense whatsoever.

So What Was Done! And Who Did It?

Sahar: Got it done!

For Next Week: call PayPal to make an official complaint, draw one more meat, spend five hours reading Infinite Jest, go to the gym three times, and figure out Mother's Day present. 

Robin: Did very few Do It Club things and she was wearing a dress I own. Stop trying to be me, Robin! 

For Next Things: buy bus ticket to philly, plane ticket to Boston, send box back to soap.com, and clean room. 

Elizabeth: Did not get it done, but she is moving to Greenpoint! SO I AM SO HAPPY! 

For Next Week: figure out birthday present for sister, talk to LL Bean and/or UPS about dumb package problem, pack and move and unpack and fill out forwarding address form. 

Rebecca: Did not get it done.

For Next Week: read to 780 in Infinite Jest, yoga three times, buy tickets for Memorial Day weekend, and do tiny morning exercises. 

Cynthia: Also did not get it done. :(

For Next Week: two sketchbook spreads to start later. Do five straightening exercises at work each day, and three rotation exercises. Talk to Adam about ikea/zipcar. Log two weeks of IDP hours. 

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Doing It in Absentia

This was another week where no one could show up in person, but we still managed to get shit done. 

Sahar: Got it done!

For Next Week: gym three times, start up Infinite Jest once more, finish reading one of the books I'm reading, and continue with OMB cover art. 

Cynthia: Didn't get it done. :(

For Next Week: Do exercises at work, start a new sketchbook spread, clean up external hard drive, look at fabrics for ottoman, and follow up with Alex/Alanna about apt design, and DP hours submit. 

Elizabeth:  Didn't get it done. Wah! 

For Next Week: Actually work on Kat's website and her personal website, continue looking for a new place to live, wrap birthday presents for niece, and go see her sister and her babies!

Rebecca: Only got it half-done. So … half boo?

For Next Week: read to 720 in IJ, go running 3 times, still do tiny morning exercises, cook one thing from a new recipe. and clean the part of the floor that isn't covered by rugs.