I'm doing 41 things
Yes, it’s finally finished. Don’t ask me to read it for a few, um, months.
Sooterkin's Life List
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1. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
1 entry591 people -
2. watch the IMDB.com Top 100 movies
1,251 people -
3. Watch more television
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4. Go hot air ballooning in Africa
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5. see the Daily Show live
1 cheer227 people -
6. Make a quilt
1 cheer1,223 people -
7. Become a carpenter
1 cheer8 people -
8. Read Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
3 cheers471 people -
9. win a macarthur genius award
3 cheers5 people -
10. see a ghost
1 cheer603 people -
11. Live in a tiny fishing village
1 cheer6 people -
12. Raise kids that are smarter and nicer than me
1 cheer49 people -
13. 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 cheers68 people -
14. throw decent pots on a wheel
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15. Send a message in a bottle
1 cheer4,128 people -
16. learn to wink
1 cheer49 people -
17. Go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
34 people -
18. ride the orient express
1 cheer104 people -
19. Be a food critic
16 people -
20. Visit Patagonia
1 cheer112 people -
21. Be a good sister
1 cheer154 people -
22. write and send thank you letters on time
1 cheer14 people -
23. Take more pictures
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24. see the northern lights
3 cheers18,961 people -
25. learn to raise just one eyebrow
1 entry227 people -
26. Drive across the USA
1 cheer2,190 people -
27. stop procrastinating
3 cheers30,012 people -
28. write a novel
1 cheer11,081 people -
29. visit St Petersburg
3 cheers77 people -
30. Get a phd in english literature
3 cheers29 people -
31. re-learn how to play the piano
4 cheers132 people -
32. learn how to drive stick-shift
4 cheers4,526 people -
33. read every Booker Prize winning novel
1 cheer56 people -
34. Publish a Children's Book
3 cheers240 people -
35. read every book I own
1 entry2,138 people -
36. learn about wine
2 cheers854 people -
37. Read "Don Quixote"
3 cheers87 people -
38. see the Democratic Party reinvent itself and take back America!
5 cheers327 people -
39. Visit Egypt
2 cheers1,051 people -
40. Finish what I start
2 cheers4,068 people -
41. Learn Dutch
1 entry . 7 cheers643 people
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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.
