I'm doing 37 things
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deputylibrarian's Life List
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1. turn 26 without crying about it
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2. prevent depression from ruining my life
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3. ease up on the schadenfreude
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4. write 52 stories in a year
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5. finish my novel
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6. submit my writing for publication
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7. get my academic career back on track within the next week
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8. update my resume
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9. finish grad school
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10. send in at least 3 job applications next week
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11. paint a set of matryoshka
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12. learn russian
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13. re-learn french
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14. make a short film
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15. start a girl group
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16. take more (and better) photos
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17. draw again
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18. make puppets
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19. make the world's greatest mix cd
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20. become a Wikipedia contributor
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21. learn to cartwheel
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22. travel extensively in eastern europe
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23. visit all 12 presidential libraries
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24. celebrate bloomsday in dublin
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25. play scrabble more often
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26. finish reading proust
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27. read tristram shandy
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28. find a really good carrot cake recipe
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29. design and sew an article of clothing
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30. find an apartment that allows cats
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31. grow an herb garden
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32. drink more tea
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33. clean my apartment and keep it that way
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34. Donate old clothes to charity
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35. sell unwanted books
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36. apply eyeliner like those actresses in Fellini's films
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37. Overthrow capitalism
105 people
Recent entries
...but I haven’t been writing much lately, and when I do, I can’t seem to finish anything. The thing that worked (in January through March) about my story-a-week scheme is that I would force myself to finish whatever I was working on in just a couple days; it didn’t always make for the most stirring or inventive pieces of literature, but at least I was producing first drafts.
