I'm doing 42 things
...sigh...
8 months ago
I give up for now, but I’ll try again when I come back for Easter break…
bras2245's Life List
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1. Learn to figure skate
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2. Write a great masters thesis
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3. Speak fluent French and Russian
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4. Publish fiction
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5. Travel
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6. Learn ballroom dancing, especially the waltz
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7. Learn about wine
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8. Read all the books on the BBC Big Read Top 100
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9. Improve my singing
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10. Learn to cook
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11. Start horseback riding again
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12. Keep in better touch with people
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13. write more letters by hand
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14. Trace my family tree
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15. Go skinny dipping somewhere exotic
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16. Go to more Oxford talks
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17. Hold a penguin
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18. Become a worthy Scrabble opponent
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19. Go on safari
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20. Play video games
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21. Develop my spirituality
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22. Raise money for a good cause
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23. Volunteer
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24. Write a ghost story
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25. Read books in Russian
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26. Make enough money to spoil my family
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27. Make a documentary film
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28. Learn the world capitals
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29. Do fieldwork
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30. Watch all episodes of BBC Robin Hood
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31. Walk the Bronte moors
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32. Walk the Cornwall cliffs
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33. See England from a canal boat
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34. Get my teeth fixed
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35. Improve my flexibility
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36. Make better use of my time
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37. Keep up with the news
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38. Vote
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39. Take Irish dance classes
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40. Apply for an Oxford Society travel grant for summer 2008
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41. Apply for a UN internship for summer 2008
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42. Finish my language school scholarship entry
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Recent entries
Taught myself...
8 months ago
bunny hops! First on the boards and then all of a sudden I could do them easily on my own, several in a row. I know this is a really basic move but it’s one step closer to being able to do jumps! And then this woman who always comes to adult skate, she’s older and really sweet, came up to me and asked me if those were bunny hops that I’d been practicing, and I said yes, and she said she’d learned them too but needed more practice and couldn’t do them as well as me yet! It felt good, the first near-compliment on my skating :)
I also worked a lot on backwards stuff, and the backwards one-foot glides and one-foot pumps on a circle have improved, but I still feel shaky. I wonder if I just keep practicing these things over and over again, if eventually I’ll be really confident. The woman who asked me about bunny hops said the backwards stuff was very difficult for her as well. Time will tell, I guess.
I also practiced forward crossovers. I eavesdropped on someone else’s lesson and just pretended like I was getting the advice! I think it really helped, the part where you push with the outside edge is much better now, and my actual crossing-over is much smoother and more distinct.
Finished...
8 months ago
Atonement. Absolutely loved it. Incredibly moving, beautiful, thought-provoking, and profound. But I still want to ask, what really happened to the lovers? I’m inclined to think, although I wish desperately that it were otherwise, that one died at Dunkirk and the other in the Blitz. I could say so much about this book but I’ve only just finished it and I feel overwhelmed by my impressions. Now I must see the movie, and make comparisons. I wonder if Cecelia should be less beautiful than Keira Knightley, although somehow she does seem to fit the part perfectly.
