I’m officially an online entrepreneur, or something. It’s not much of a store (and I have yet to actually sell anything) but it’s there:
citoyennebrett's Life List
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1. Graduate in 2009
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2. Start a blog
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3. Get rid of any stuff I don't need or use
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4. Exercise every day for two weeks
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5. Be a better friend
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6. Play an open mic
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7. Do more volunteer work
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8. Learn to play the ukulele
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9. Learn more vegan recipes
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10. Be financially independent
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11. Translate La France Libre
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12. Get back in shape
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13. Read all the books I own
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14. Get a tattoo
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15. Take guitar lessons
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16. Write for Torontoist
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17. Get immunized against HPV
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18. Learn German
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19. Write a historical novel
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20. Be accepted to grad school at Harvard or Princeton
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21. Get a Ph.D.
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22. Subvert the heteropatriarchal ownership paradigm
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23. Overthrow the Fifth Republic
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It took me a little over two years, thanks to my forgetfulness and lack of motivation, but it’s done – finished, given, and apparently worn to at least one curling class. She loves it (or so she says) so I’m happy. Would have been nice to get a picture, though. Maybe some other time.
So, I bought more books. A lot more books. And I read some of them. Really I did. But nonetheless, the list has expanded significantly.
Non-fiction:
Daniel J. Boorstin – The Seekers
Charles d’Eon de Beaumont – The Maiden of Tonnerre
François Furet – Interpreting the French Revolution
Nicolas Grimal – A History of Ancient Egypt
Herodotus – The Histories
Martin Klimke – 1968 in Europe
Teresa de Lauretis – Feminist Studies
Margaret MacMillan – Paris 1919
Robert Opie – Guillotine
Georges Rudé – Robespierre
Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just – L’esprit de la Révolution
Fiction:
Albert Camus – The Fall
Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales
Robertson Davies – The Salterton Trilogy
Robertson Davies – The Cunning Man
Emma Donoghue – Life Mask
Gustave Flaubert – A Sentimental Education
Sara Gruen – Water for Elephants
Franz Kafka – The Trial
John Milton – Paradise Lost
Tom Stoppard – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Nick Tosches – In the Hand of Dante
Emile Zola – L’Assomoir
Emile Zola – Germinal
Two down, 24 to go.
