I'm doing 40 things
I’m going to live in Cambridge for a while in two weeks’ time. I think that might count!
angelicish's Life List
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1. Learn Spanish
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2. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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3. knit mittens
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4. parachute
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5. Read a Thousand Years of Solitude in Spanish
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6. knit a scarf
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7. live in New York for a while
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8. live in Quebec for a while
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9. read Finnegans Wake and understand it
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10. find a bookcrossing book
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11. finish the poem I promised Clodagh
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12. become a cycling enthusiast
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13. climb Kilimanjaro
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14. make a dress for myself
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15. see the aurora borealis
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16. receive a postcrossing postcard
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17. have pizza in Indo
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18. Float on the Dead Sea
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19. go on holiday with Carolyn
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20. live in Oxford for a while
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21. learn pilates
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22. learn to tango
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23. learn to swing dance
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24. Go to Burning Man
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25. run the mini-marathon
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26. Read the third volume of Proust's A La Recherche
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27. write a book
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28. get a tattoo on my ankle
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29. Learn Jiu Jitsu
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30. paint a massive painting
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31. learn to drive
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32. give blood
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33. own a secondhand bookshop
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34. work for myself
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35. Learn to cook
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36. Own a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary
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37. publish a book of poetry
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38. Do the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella.
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39. buy a cadillac in Texas and drive it to Mexico
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40. do a PhD in poetry
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Recent entries
I’ve decided that I’ll know I’ve done this when I’ve read a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel in the original tongue.
Tash kindly cheered me along my merry thesis way, and I saw on her list of achievements that she had received a postcrossing postcard. Which brought me to www.postcrossing.com. Which is a fun place to be.
