I found the self-absorption slow and a little boring at first but then I realized how wry and honest it was and how shockingly like me. I had to embrace the ‘I can do anything’ belief that has emboldened me and most of the other upper middle class Americans in their twenties that I know. A nice look at a time of life (early adulthood, the just out of college twenty-somethings) and a place (San Francisco just as the dot-com boom was taking off). Kinda catalogs the birth of the modern yuppie. Anyway, a bit of slog but worth it. Definitely.
Womaninheels's Life List
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1. write a play
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2. Have more completed goals than uncompleted goals on 43Things
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3. Fire a gun
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4. Revise my goals and make them: specific, measurable,realistic and time bound.
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5. Visit Savannah, Georgia
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6. Visit New Orleans
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7. get a laptop
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8. hear Tibetan monks chanting, in person.
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9. Go Surfing
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10. move to another country
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11. find out what my blood type is
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12. Send a postcard to Postsecret
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13. Read the entire Bible
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14. visit the maldives
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15. live fearlessly, courageously, purposefully
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16. travel through Spain and Morrocco
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17. Read "A People's History of the United States"
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18. Read the complete works of Shakespeare
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19. Max out donations to my Roth IRA
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20. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
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21. take a bellydancing class
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22. Go on a roadtrip with no particular destination
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23. publish something in a respectable journal, magazine, or edited website
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How I did it: Got several jobs, paid down some debt (still a little left), found a place I could afford with people who I felt good living with, and packed my bags, loaded up my station wagon, and drove away. Read how I did it…
How I did it: I already had one on Livejournal that I had let go of....now I am trying to post more often. Super simple. It's the continuing to do it that seems to bemy struggle. But one day at a time... Read how I did it…
So I am in the process of rewriting my play. The director and the producer would like the character to be more likeable from the start. I think this shortens her arc and that bad casting made her so unlikable. It’s being done in a local festival thsi summer. I am so resistant to the changes. They should have been done two days ago and I still have only a few pages done. My heart’s just not in the changes.
This summer I am performing a play in Paris. I am so excited and scared. I feel really vulnerable right now and I am not sure how being out of my safety zone will hit me. I think I won’t fall apart like the last time I was there. I have dreamed about the French experience my whole life. I hate that stupid emotional issues could keep me from wholly immersing in it.
