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.
Wanda's Life List
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1. Do adventurous things and write about them.
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2. find a mate/partner to live, love, learn, grow with
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3. Plan a 43T Vegas meetup for April 14-15, 2007!
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4. write a novel
1 entry . 1 cheer11,080 people -
5. be an international woman of mystery
1 entry . 3 cheers26 people -
6. make 2007 the Best Year of My Life
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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)
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8. Do a base jump
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9. hang glide
2 entries . 2 cheers732 people -
10. Post a video on YouTube
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11. buy a motorcycle!
1 entry . 2 cheers1,100 people -
12. live an ethical life
1 entry . 1 cheer23 people -
13. Associate with a better class of people
1 entry . 1 cheer2 people -
14. Find the courage to go on
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15. Bicycle from Cuxhaven to Bad Schandau
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16. Backpack somewhere mysterious
1 entry . 5 cheers13 people -
17. Hike more
1 entry . 4 cheers338 people -
18. read every book I own
1 entry . 1 cheer2,139 people -
19. Get a Master's in Psychology
3 entries . 4 cheers5 people -
20. Learn all the Toyo Kanji
1 entry . 2 cheers4 people -
21. Make someone happy every day
1 entry . 7 cheers29 people -
22. Learn to play the tenor sax
1 entry . 5 cheers5 people -
23. sing cool jazz in a cozy nightclub
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24. see the northern lights
1 cheer18,958 people -
25. sail across the ocean on a tramp steamer
1 entry . 3 cheers1 person -
26. Have a boy baby and a girl baby
1 entry . 1 cheer2 people -
27. Sell a poem to a magazine
1 entry . 2 cheers86 people -
28. Make money on the Internet
1 entry . 2 cheers54 people -
29. Become financially independent
1 entry . 2 cheers6,299 people -
30. ensure that my children have it easier than I have
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31. Make myself happy.
1 entry . 8 cheers129 people -
32. be an expert on Anais Nin
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33. 43 weird facts about myself
15 people
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
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….


