I'm doing 41 things
Fatal Revenant – Stephen R. Donaldson.
Knife of Dreams – Robert Jordan.
A Memory of Light – Robert Jordan.
Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Flashman – George MacDonald Fraser.
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Tales – H.P. Lovecraft.
The Complete Father Brown Stories – G.K. Chesterton.
The Anatomy of Melancholy – Robert Burton.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers.
The Best and the Brightest – David Halberstam.
Educating Eve – Geoffrey Sampson.
American Gods – Neil Gaiman.
Lud-in-the-Mist – Hope Mirrlees.
If Chins Could Kill – Bruce Campbell.
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift.
Tom Brown’s Schooldays – Thomas Hughes.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again – David Foster Wallace.
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe.
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh.
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad.
The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of – Thomas M. Disch.
Working – Studs Terkel.
alexa003's Life List
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1. visit all 50 states
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2. qualify for the Boston Marathon
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3. Get a PhD
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4. Learn Spanish
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5. be a scuba instructor
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6. run a 100 mile ultra marathon
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7. Get SAS certified
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8. learn Irish
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9. make goal weight at Weight Watchers
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10. find a mentor
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11. ride a double century
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12. get my pilot's license
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13. run a 10K
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14. learn to juggle pins
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15. go to circus school.
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16. keep in touch with old friends
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17. Learn to Handle UTF-8 on C++/Linux
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18. Watch the top 250 movies on the Internet Movie Database
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19. Practice Yoga
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20. Swim with dolphins
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21. Learn to play bluegrass
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22. fastpack the Appalachian trail by state
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23. climb mt hood
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24. See the 1000 places to see before you die before I die
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25. Run my dream marathons
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26. Get a Bacon Number
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27. Get an Erdos Number
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28. Build a boat
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29. Become an adjunct faculty member
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30. Speak at a Planetary Science colloquium at CalTech
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31. Compete in an International Orienteering event
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32. Earn a second ATM-B
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33. Get the perfect job
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34. fly in a balloon
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35. Watch a space shuttle launch
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36. develop a sensible disaster plan and survival kit
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37. complete the online FEMA professional development series
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38. create a website
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39. Learn C++ on the Linux Platform
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40. Run another marathon
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41. Read Yet Another 24 Interesting Books
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How I did it: I worked on both the opening and the conclusion from the previous version of the speech, because I had not been satisfied with them. I kept the core of the speech the same. I stayed out of the room for most of the speeches before me and went over the speech in my mind. Then I went in and gave the speech. Read how I did it…
How I did it: I competed in a Humorous speech contest about six or seven years ago and I told a story about a skydiving incident. It was a funny story, but that's all it was and I was beaten by better speeches. Since then, I have been unable to compete most of the time because of District 27 leadership activities. Now that I am out of that, I thought it was time to try competing again, so I wrote a pretty good speech and gave it at se… Read how I did it…
It was not a perfect speech by any measure, but it was good.
My speech was about discussing Santa’s existence with kids
and I told some funny and essentially true stories involving
my own kids, my nieces and nephews, and a friend of mine when
I was a kid. I worked pretty hard on it, including delivering
it at five different clubs.
Now wish me luck at the Division contest!
because I don’t work at the Census Bureau any more. It is possible that I may some day return to federal employment and possibly even within Commerce (NIST, maybe?), but for now I don’t want this clogging up my list.
