I was accepted to my top choice… and they are willing to pay my way!
azure_armadillo's Life List
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1. never stop falling in love all over again
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2. learn how to stop procrastinating
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3. go to seminary
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4. actually stop procrastinating
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5. marry the woman I love for who she is
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6. learn how to read ancient Hebrew
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7. learn how to read Koinonia Greek
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8. learn how to read ancient Greek
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9. learn how to read German
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10. learn how to read Latin
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11. read the Old Testament in Hebrew
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12. read the New Testament in Greek
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13. compost and/or recycle every possible waste material I can
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14. live in an eco-friendly house
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15. drive an electric car
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16. have 3-5 children
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17. publish my theology
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18. get a degree beyond an MDiv
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19. figure out how to order these goals properly
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20. meet Gary Trudeau
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21. help remove the bans on gay marriage throught the US
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22. average more than 6 hours of sleep every night
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23. apply duct tape to solve a problem not fixable with duct tape
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24. quit crashing into stationary objects at <5 mph in a car.
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25. make as many unique goals as possible
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26. lose at least 20 pounds
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27. see the northern lights
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28. Pull off 2 Scrabble "bingo"s in one game.
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29. read 10,000+ pages (for fun, books/journals only) in a year
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30. learn to keep my car near the road when the two part ways
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How I did it: Read some every day (and made up for lost time when I had to skip a day).It worked out to be about 40 books.30 pages a day and you can do it. Read how I did it…
1 – stop sign; 1 mph. I was trying to make a corner (found out I should turn there a little late to make it precisely) and slid on ice… got the car slowed down from 30ish to 1, but hit the stop sign. Bent the sign post slightly, but it was so cold outside that when I started to back off it, metal had already seized up and shattered… >.< ...slight paint damge on the bumper (no repairs needed). Reported the accident to the town, they replaced the sign post at no cost to me.
2 – parked cars in parking lot (3 mph or less)... I used to have to drive a Lincoln Contintental… sometimes I just needed an extra 3 inches to get out of my parking spot. No damage all around (whew!).
3 – Bushes and a bench; 1 mph or less… I decided to turn the Continental 180 degrees in a driveway just barely wide enough for 2 cars so that I could pull out into traffic, rather than back into it (and a possible accident). It was only a 17-point turn around. No discernable damage to anything.
4 – gate post and reflector for automatic gate closing mechanism; 3-5 mph. Destroyed the reflector… scraped up the side of the car… some paint damage. Bent in the passenger door and the rear body panel. $175 to get the reflector replaced. Van would need a new door and side panel due to the type of damage ($2000 repair to do, refused because the car is worth less than $6000 total). Paint damage repaired by me. Doesn’t look great, but not immediately apparent. Temporarily banned from parking (at least banned from parking large vehicles) in said gated lot.
5 – car ahead of me at stoplight (unknown, no more than 5 mph; probably closer to 2…). I thought I had stopped, and looked down to adjust the burger I was trying to eat… it turns out that “stopped” and “almost stopped” are not the same thing. No damage, but it really annoyed the other driver.
