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1. Complete one of my 43 things each year
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2. Travel to Brazil
123 people
3. Read the classics
1 entry 693 people
4. Keep a tank of beautiful goldfish
2 people
5. Drive my way around Australia
1 person
6. Complete a qualification in graphic design
1 person
7. Play a team sport
23 people
8. Go zorbing in the Czech Republic
1 person
9. Graduate with a 6.0 GPA
1 person
10. Collate my Nana's jam recipies
1 person
11. Grow my own veges
4 people
12. Live overseas
252 people
13. Teach in a developing nation
1 person
14. Create something beautiful
506 people
15. Fall in love with an unknown band
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16. Connect with someone who inspires my creativity and opens the world to possibility
1 person
17. Visit the seven continents
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18. Publish a book of beautiful photos
1 cheer 1 person
19. Have a house that is a home for friends
1 person
20. To find a painting that makes me smile
1 person
21. To buy the perfect pair of jeans shoes
1 person
22. Doing all my readings for one semester
1 person
23. Take a Thai cooking class
3 people
24. Write a biography for my parents and grandparents
1 person
25. Make a collection of people and their stories
1 person
26. Spread the love of Apple computers
1 person
27. Watch the Monty Python movies
1 person
28. Own a manual car and be comfortable driving it!
1 person
29. Finish an art project that I start
1 person
30. Learn a new word each week
92 people
31. See the running of the bulls
11 people
32. Clean up my room
132 people
33. Remember all my friend's birthdays
5 people
34. Renovate a house
30 people
35. Go hang gliding or para gliding
1 person
36. Spend the whole week at the Woodford festival
1 cheer 1 person
37. Take a photo everyday
54 people
38. Find out my blood type
515 people
39. Take a day off work to go to the beach
1 person
40. Learn how to cook tender meat
1 person
41. Discover a fascinating book without recommendation
1 person
42. See the Cat Empire live
2 people
43. Learn to ride a motorbike
300 people

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I know that I will start this endeavor with all the enthusiasm that I start every other project in my life. I am a great starter. However, it’s keeping the inspiration up through to the completion of these tasks that I struggle with. So at least one per year.

Feb 26, 2008, 11:40PM PST | 0 comments

read the classics

I See Read 20 months ago

Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Don Juan by Lord George Gordon Byron
Cat on a hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Middlemarch by George Elliot
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
The Odyssey by Homer
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Of Human Bondage by W. Sommerset Maughm
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Feb 26, 2008, 06:15PM PST | 2 comments

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