elcarmean




I'm doing 42 things
 

elcarmean's Life List

  1. 1. Help research cancer and other diseases with Folding at Home
    9 team members . 9 entries . 40 cheers
    8 people
  2. 2. sail around the world
    28 cheers
    865 people
  3. 3. Be an awesome big brother
    2 entries . 46 cheers
    2 people
  4. 4. round cape horn
    10 cheers
    9 people
  5. 5. get a captains license
    12 cheers
    2 people
  6. 6. restore politeness, refinement, tact and other old-fashioned niceties
    45 cheers
    68 people
  7. 7. travel the world
    14 cheers
    17,823 people
  8. 8. Join the Peace Corps
    19 cheers
    2,313 people
  9. 9. travel to every continent
    2 entries . 21 cheers
    1,397 people
  10. 10. Stamp out mis-guided Ché adoration worldwide
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    11 people
  11. 11. get a cat
    17 cheers
    842 people
  12. 12. Learn how to remember peoples' names
    7 cheers
    1,636 people
  13. 13. take massage lessons
    11 cheers
    93 people
  14. 14. Learn to cook
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    7,831 people
  15. 15. Read "Don Quijote de La Mancha"
    8 cheers
    72 people
  16. 16. Buy a boat and sail the seven seas
    6 cheers
    10 people
  17. 17. Walk the Camino de Santiago
    9 cheers
    156 people
  18. 18. Practice random acts of kindness
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    756 people
  19. 19. live aboard
    6 cheers
    27 people
  20. 20. sail the mediterranean
    1 entry . 8 cheers
    71 people
  21. 21. Learn a third language
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    185 people
  22. 22. make a difference in someone's life
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    1,178 people
  23. 23. Learn to surf
    8 cheers
    7,106 people
  24. 24. Rid the world of alcohol (by drinking it.. one drink at a time)
    4 team members . 11 cheers
    14 people
  25. 25. be able to bench press my body weight
    5 cheers
    69 people
  26. 26. Read more books
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    10,688 people
  27. 27. learn to ride a motorbike
    5 cheers
    288 people
  28. 28. scuba dive more
    9 cheers
    76 people
  29. 29. take the foreign service exam
    4 cheers
    33 people
  30. 30. help people
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    1,320 people
  31. 31. be like Amelie
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    49 people
  32. 32. show the world that all Americans aren't the McDonald's-lusting, Fear-mongering, war-loving, single-language learning, television-obsessed, culture-killing xenophobes we're made out to be by our leaders and media...
    19 cheers
    7 people
  33. 33. Continue to update my Goodreads list
    2 people
  34. 34. get better at darts
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    35 people
  35. 35. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
    2 cheers
    431 people
  36. 36. finish my masters
    257 people
  37. 37. practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty
    9 cheers
    14 people
  38. 38. learn to ride a motorcycle
    1,569 people
  39. 39. build a snowman like Calvin
    4 cheers
    3 people
  40. 40. remember that life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out
    14 people
  41. 41. Convince at least one 43er with the goal "become anorexic" that this is a really stupid goal...
    3 team members . 6 cheers
    4 people
  42. 42. drink tea every day
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    24 people

How I did it
How to run the Rome Marathon
It took me
18 weeks
It made me


How to run a marathon
It took me
18 weeks
It made me


How to run a half marathon
It took me
3 months
It made me


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Recent entries
get better at darts (read all 2 entries…)
Finally put up the dart board 3 months ago

I’ve been living in Italy now since August, and I bought a dart board at the end of October, but never put it up because I didn’t have a nail or anything to protect the wall from my roommates. I finally put it up about a month ago, but have been so busy with classes that I haven’t played much. However, having it up and playing every once in a while is improving my game, and the board was about 15 euros with six darts, so I’m not out much money either!



Learn a third language
Working on it 5 months ago

I speak Spanish quite well, having taken it for 8 years and lived in Spain for two, so I’ve moved on to Portuguese. I’m also living in Italy, so I feel like a bit of a jerk not learning Italian, but Portuguese will be more useful for my professional life and I can’t take both. I am learning a tiny bit of Italian, as I learned a tiny bit of Nepali while living in Nepal, but I’m actually committing to Portuguese, so I hope to eventually count that as my third language and then move on to a fourth!



drink tea every day
Winter 5 months ago

I tend to drink a lot of tea every day during the winter. Now that I’m actually living somewhere that gets cold during the winter, and on top of that am in grad school, I’m drinking even more. I spend most of my days at the university, and have taken to bringing two different types of tea with me in thermoses, so I have been drinking almost a liter and a half of tea a day. Granted, it’s exams now, so that’s even more than normal, but I do plan to continue with at least a few cups a day after exams, just not quite so much black tea when I don’t want the caffeine.

Tea is wonderful.



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