I'm doing 27 things
Met him, quite quickly, at Brown University’s McSweeney’s Rectangle Conference. Wicked cool guy. Really glad that I went. He read a selection from his forthcoming book about a Sudanese/Ethiopian man, one of Sudan’s “Lost Boys.” Brilliant stuff.
bmcguirk's Life List
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1. stop procrastinating
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2. be elected President of the United States.
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3. implement GTD
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4. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
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5. live forever
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6. learn to ride a motorcycle
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7. write a book
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8. spend an entire day watching the extended version of all three Lord of the Rings movies back-to-back-to-back
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9. be a database ninja
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10. Give away my gmail invites
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11. Read more books
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12. Take more pictures
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13. Go to bed
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14. write everyday
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15. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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16. meet Bono
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17. improve my study skills.
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18. fight for queer rights, both legal and social.
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19. get good with photoshop
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20. Visit every country in the world
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21. Blog about wine
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22. master CSS
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23. Start a secret society
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24. learn PHP
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25. write something and get it published
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26. run a triathlon
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27. live passionately
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Recent entries
we are all forced to admit that the French, on balance, are worth keeping around. Parisians are particularly prickly, but the thing about Paris is that being/living there is, to use Adam Gopnik’s phrase “a beautiful existence.” It’s well worth your time. Don’t just visit Paris: I’d recommend staying a good long while and really soaking it in. See the sights, because they’re also worth it, but the reason Paris is Paris is because something about it can make ordinary acts seem elegant and sensible on a higher plane than you’d otherwise acknowledge.
That’s just my $.02. But seriously, just go by whatever means necessary.
That’s the way I sum it up. If you’re in school just for skills, to be a technician of some kind, that’s just fine. God bless you. That’s just not me. I need a true education, it’s just a locked-in attribute of my brain. And, to me, you cannot call yourself truly educated unless you’ve studied abroad. The world is too big, too random, too varied, too beautiful, for you to say that you’ve been educated enough to fully participate in it and yet have never gone and engaged people like yourself from vastly different places and backgrounds.
Go. Now.
