I'm doing 40 things
A Christmas Carol/Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth/Dickens, Fictions of Affliction/Holmes, Sula/Morrison, Late Victorian Gothic Tales/Lockhurst, and The Mill on the Floss/Eliot
CassieJaye's Life List
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1. write a novel
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2. Look people in the eye
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3. speak more clearly
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4. be more patient
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5. love my body
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6. stay in touch with friends
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7. perform slam poetry
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8. Do 100 consecutive push ups
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9. Learn to whistle with my fingers
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10. Learn to knit
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11. learn to solve a Rubik's cube.
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12. Learn to roll my "r"s
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13. read all the books I own
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14. Become fluent in Arabic
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15. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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16. Create a personal recipe book
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17. Read the Bible
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18. run a marathon
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19. show up at the airport with a bag & a passport & take the first flight available.
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20. visit all 50 states
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21. Create a budget, and stick with it
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22. go skinny dipping
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23. learn how to drive stick-shift
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24. Throw a dart into a map and travel to where it lands
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25. grow my hair long
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26. get a massage
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27. go to the Olympics
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28. ride an elephant
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29. Exercise 30 Hours in 30 Days
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30. decide what is important to me, and make time for it
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31. Read 30 Books in 2012
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32. Eat, drink, learn, or try something new
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33. Volunteer
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34. run a 5k
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35. Spend more time with friends.
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36. exercise regularly
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37. Get a free proof of my NaNoWriMo novel through CreateSpace
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38. Get back to Double H Summer 2012
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39. See a snow plow
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40. say yes more often
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How I did it
It made me
feel free 
How I did it: I work at a summer camp, and though they have coffee there, it's not very good. Maybe Camp wasn't the best time to pick, since it's a job that requires me to be energetic for long hours at a time, but when is it a good time to do anything?The first few days I did have some headaches and I was tired. But this definitely made me conscious of just how dependent I was on coffee.I did drink tea over the week, but I even like decaf … Read how I did it…
It made me
relieved
How I did it: Freeing! If you don't feel ready to delete it completely, you could always try going without it for a week. I did that a couple weeks ago, and it was eye opening: I typed facebook into the address bar without even thinking about it, and found myself checking facebook too many times a day. I just hit the delete button about a minute ago. Facebook says my account own't be deleted for 14 days--hopefully that means t… Read how I did it…
It made me
How I did it: I had gotten to the point where I was just checking facebook constantly and for no reason. I justified it by saying that I didn't want to miss out on things or lose touch with people who I was only in touch with on facebook, but let's face it: how far into the future are you going to continue to stay in contact with someone with whom you're only facebook friends? It's not as if facebook was enriching my life in any way.This go… Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
I will be on a plane headed home from school. Until then, I will be up to my ears in English papers. Four of them, to be exact.
Current status:
Fualkner paper: rough draft
Fitzgerald paper: rough draft
Victorian Gothic Masculinity: rough draft in progress
Victorian Lit & Disability: planning
My goal is to have rough drafts of all four of these complete by this Sunday evening. Then I’ll have a week to do some leisurely revision and study for an exam I have. Onward!
Matilda (Dahl), As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), Libra (DeLillo), Manhattan Transfer (Dos Passos), and Mr. Sammler’s Planet (Bellow).
