Thank God...
3 years ago
Yes, it’s finally finished. Don’t ask me to read it for a few, um, months.
| 1. |
Watch more television
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8 people |
| 2. |
watch the IMDB.com Top 100 movies
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1,005 people |
| 3. |
Live in a tiny fishing village
1 cheer |
5 people |
| 4. |
Go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
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35 people |
| 5. |
write a novel
1 cheer |
9,294 people |
| 6. |
ride the orient express
1 cheer |
79 people |
| 7. |
Drive across the USA
1 cheer |
2,147 people |
| 8. |
Visit Patagonia
1 cheer |
96 people |
| 9. |
Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
1 entry |
542 people |
| 10. |
Take more pictures
1 entry . 1 cheer |
13,980 people |
| 11. |
read every book I own
1 entry |
2,072 people |
| 12. |
see a ghost
1 cheer |
562 people |
| 13. |
Raise kids that are smarter and nicer than me
1 cheer |
49 people |
| 14. |
learn about wine
2 cheers |
814 people |
| 15. |
see the Daily Show live
1 cheer |
200 people |
| 16. |
Send a message in a bottle
3 cheers |
3,519 people |
| 17. |
write and send thank you letters on time
1 cheer |
13 people |
| 18. |
learn to wink
1 cheer |
46 people |
| 19. |
Finish what I start
2 cheers |
3,721 people |
| 20. |
see the Democratic Party reinvent itself and take back America!
5 cheers |
349 people |
| 21. |
Go hot air ballooning in Africa
2 cheers |
2 people |
| 22. |
create one slang word that catches on in pop culture, even if I don't get the credit when it is added to the OED
5 cheers |
71 people |
| 23. |
visit St Petersburg
3 cheers |
66 people |
| 24. |
Make a quilt
1 cheer |
1,055 people |
| 25. |
Read "Don Quixote"
3 cheers |
81 people |
| 26. |
see the northern lights
3 cheers |
16,374 people |
| 27. |
Read Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
3 cheers |
468 people |
| 28. |
Be a good sister
1 cheer |
121 people |
| 29. |
read every Booker Prize winning novel
1 cheer |
41 people |
| 30. |
Publish a Children's Book
3 cheers |
219 people |
| 31. |
learn to raise just one eyebrow
1 entry . 1 cheer |
238 people |
| 32. |
Be a food critic
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16 people |
| 33. |
re-learn how to play the piano
4 cheers |
120 people |
| 34. |
Visit Egypt
2 cheers |
857 people |
| 35. |
Learn Dutch
1 entry . 7 cheers |
544 people |
| 36. |
throw decent pots on a wheel
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4 people |
| 37. |
Get a phd in english literature
3 cheers |
28 people |
| 38. |
Become a carpenter
1 cheer |
7 people |
| 39. |
stop procrastinating
3 cheers |
26,233 people |
| 40. |
learn how to drive stick-shift
4 cheers |
4,421 people |
| 41. |
win a macarthur genius award
3 cheers |
4 people |
This is one of those unreasonable goals, though I do think it inspires a positive mindset. I don’t think I’ll ever actually read all of the books I possess, and maybe I shouldn’t even aspire to. A sure sign that someone isn’t a book person is that they come into your house and say, “Wow, have you actually read all of these?!?”
Looks like I’ll be able to strike this one off the list soon. I’m going to a conference in Trieste at the end of the month. It seems like such an interesting city, and I hear good things about northern Italy.