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Wanda




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  2. 1. Do adventurous things and write about them.
    3 entries . 13 cheers     		5 people
  3. 2. find a mate/partner to live, love, learn, grow with
    1 entry . 6 cheers     		6 people
  4. 3. Plan a 43T Vegas meetup for April 14-15, 2007!
    12 team members . 2 cheers     		5 people
  5. 4. write a novel
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		9,685 people
  6. 5. be an international woman of mystery
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		31 people
  7. 6. make 2007 the Best Year of My Life
    24 team members . 1 cheer     		20 people
  8. 7. Invite others to share the one thing they would change in their life if they could go back in time (feel free to join in)
    1 cheer     		2 people
  9. 8. Do a base jump
    2 entries . 1 cheer     		7 people
  10. 9. hang glide
    2 entries . 2 cheers     		679 people
  11. 10. Post a video on YouTube
    2 entries     		25 people
  12. 11. buy a motorcycle!
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		903 people
  13. 12. live an ethical life
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		21 people
  14. 13. Associate with a better class of people
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  15. 14. Find the courage to go on
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  16. 15. Bicycle from Cuxhaven to Bad Schandau
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  17. 16. Backpack somewhere mysterious
    1 entry . 5 cheers     		13 people
  18. 17. Hike more
    1 entry . 4 cheers     		316 people
  19. 18. read every book I own
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		2,121 people
  20. 19. Get a Master's in Psychology
    3 entries . 5 cheers     		5 people
  21. 20. Learn all the Toyo Kanji
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		3 people
  22. 21. Make someone happy every day
    1 entry . 7 cheers     		26 people
  23. 22. Learn to play the tenor sax
    1 entry . 5 cheers     		5 people
  24. 23. sing cool jazz in a cozy nightclub
    1 entry . 7 cheers     		1 person
  25. 24. see the northern lights
    1 cheer     		16,928 people
  26. 25. sail across the ocean on a tramp steamer
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		1 person
  27. 26. Have a boy baby and a girl baby
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		2 people
  28. 27. Sell a poem to a magazine
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		52 people
  29. 28. Make money on the Internet
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		54 people
  30. 29. Become financially independent
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		5,437 people
  31. 30. ensure that my children have it easier than I have
    8 cheers     		1 person
  32. 31. Make myself happy.
    1 entry . 8 cheers     		119 people
  33. 32. be an expert on Anais Nin
    1 entry . 5 cheers     		3 people
  34. 33. 43 weird facts about myself
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Recent entries
Bicycle from Cuxhaven to Bad Schandau
Alongside the Elbe River 8 months ago

That route follows the course of the Elbe River in Germany. It’s 870km—piece of cake! (Kof…) I want to do it by the end of summer to commemorate the 3rd anniversary of the end of a major series of operations that left me in a wheel chair with little prospect of ever getting out of it. Even last summer there was hardly any chance I could have done something like this. But I am going to push it. Push it! And do it. No doubt.

Mar 10, 11:04PM PDT | 1 cheer | 3 comments


Find the courage to go on
Untitled 16 months ago

I have to have another operation. Crap.

Now therefore keep thy sorrow to thyself,
and bear with a good courage that which hath befallen thee.
—The Apocrypha 10:15

Jul 19, 2008, 09:41PM PDT | 0 comments


Associate with a better class of people
I need to get back among my social peers 19 months ago

In my work-related world I have fallen in with the “I seen it” crowd, people who think I am showing off if I converse normally, using my normal vocabulary, expressing myself in grammatical sentences.
They are not all like that, but too many are.
Well, once I finish my graduate studies I can move into a professional environment populated by my social peers and I can forget about it.
Just…right now this work generates a strong cash flow, so I suppose I have to overlook the fact that it is largely inhabited by stellar examples of the surplus population.
The thing is, I don’t think of myself as superior to these people—or anyone. I am just being me, a person who reads one or two books a week, doesn’t watch much TV or see many movies, likes not only listening to but playing on the piano composers such as Ravel, Chopin, Debussy, Elgar and Satie, has only a vague idea of who Paris or Britney or Lindsay are and doesn’t care, has a passion for poetry but thinks most pop song lyrics seem written by illiterates and are utterly jejune (oh, dear! that vocabulary!) I say something that seems perfectly normal to me, and I get this, “Oh, look at miss high and mighty showing off!” Huh?
Eh. Whatever.
However, it scares me that there are so many people out there who think they are intelligent (they mean “knowledgeable,” but if you try to explain the difference, they get huffy, lol) but are intensely ignorant, stupid and gullible—and vote….

Apr 21, 2008, 10:30PM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments


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