I'm doing 33 things
At sunset. In San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily.
ScreamingMonkey's Life List
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1. Start creating art again
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2. Stop picking the skin around my thumbs
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3. E-mail back all the friends I've lost touch with
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4. Help my mother catalogue all the books in our house
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5. Move back to Europe
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6. Improve my short-term memory
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7. Stop worrying about the future and embrace the present
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8. Create my own reality
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9. Meet my sister
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10. Learn to juggle
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11. Write my name in wet cement
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12. Visit a nude beach
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13. Witness the aurora borealis
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14. Solve the Rubik's Pyramid
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15. Learn a third language
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16. See the stars
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17. Learn the art of compromise
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18. Regulate my circadian rhythm
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19. Get lost in a hedge maze
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20. Stop feeling guilty about spending money on myself
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21. Go for a midnight picnic
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22. Make a quilt
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23. Learn how to drive a stick shift
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24. Compile a detailed timeline of amazing historical events that have taken place over the course of my lifetime
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25. Fly a kite
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26. Visit a ghost town
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27. Keep a travel blog while living abroad
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28. Let go of jealousy
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29. Find an alarm clock solution
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30. Go paintballing
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31. Watch a space shuttle launch
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32. Identify 100 things that make me happy
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33. Maintain good study habits and stop procrastinating this year
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Recent entries
I’m in! I received my letter of acceptance at the beginning of June and have already applied for student housing. I will be spending the next two years in Leipzig and Vienna, consecutively. Time to start looking one-way tickets to Europe again.
21. Art (and being surrounded by it).
22. Looking through people’s old family albums with them.
23. The smell of bonfires, lily of the valley, summer rain, evergreens, books, coated magazine paper, boiling milk, old houses, and fresh autumn air.
24. Wandering through the streets of some foreign city and suddenly overhearing a conversation in Polish, or noticing a Polish flag stitched onto someone’s backpack or jacket.
25. Cooking a good meal and having someone ask for seconds.
26. Loving a song upon first listen.
27. Reading, eating, and sleeping outdoors.
28. Walking out of the house without a jacket for the first time after a long winter.
29. Finally being old enough to harp on the “when I was your age” cliché.
30. Friendly rivalries.
