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1. Travel to Istanbul (not Constantinople)!
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2. find a hairdresser who actually knows how to cut curly hair
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3. go to the eye doctor
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4. Fill out applications for graduate school.
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5. Take a ride in a hot air balloon.
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6. Order transcripts.
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7. Make double chocolate cookies. Make 1/4 of the dough with cinnamon, 1/4 with curry, and 1/4 with cayenne, and see what happens.
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8. Make pumpkin 5 spice ice cream.
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9. Buy a book that I can use to start learning Spanish.
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10. study for the GRE
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11. try a new Turkish restaurant
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12. play music this weekend
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13. buy an iphone
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14. decide which foreign languages I will learn for real
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15. Play my new 'oud.
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16. Hem the tan pants that I love but never wear because they are too long.
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17. Decide if there's a reason to expand the geographical area of my PhD program search. Do I need to consider a wider range of possibilities, or is it OK to limit my search by geographical area?
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18. Eat healthy this week.
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19. Buy my own 'oud.
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20. Research anthropology PhD programs in the DC area.
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21. Read "The History of Icon Painting."
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22. All right, it's time to get on a real diet and exercise plan. I've put it off long enough. Beginning Sunday, I will start new habits.
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23. Plan a celebration for Timothy's first year of life!
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24. Make Turkish lentil soup.
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25. List out all the reasons why I previously decided not to finish my PhD and decide whether they still make sense.
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26. Cook something with eggplant.
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27. Cook something with saffron.
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28. See dervishes whirl.
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29. Find a new author with lots of good books to delve into.
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30. Pick a leaf off the top of a tree while riding in a hot air balloon.
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31. Visit the Hagia Sophia.
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32. Eat breakfast on a rooftop terrace overlooking the Sea of Marmara.
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33. Eat stretchy Turkish ice cream.
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34. Speak to someone in Turkish.
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35. Visit the 1200 year old cave churches of Cappadocia.
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36. See the Hagia Sophia.
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37. Eat breakfast in Europe and lunch in Asia and dinner in Europe again.
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38. Take a boat ride on the Bosphorus and take a picture of myself in between Europe and Asia.
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39. Travel to Cappadocia.
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40. Shop in a Turkish bazaar.
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41. Drink ayran.
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42. Sleep in a cave hotel.
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43. Go somewhere new!
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44. Find the last remaining Brother Cadfael book for my mom.
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45. Find 3 more jobs that I want to apply for this week.
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46. Make a calendar of all my friends' and relatives' birthdays and anniversaries so that I remember to call and send cards.
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47. Do all the songs on Wii Just Dance 2 at least once.
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48. start using reusable grocery bags
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49. Reevaluate my job search plan.
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50. Give M&M a good night's sleep.
