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!
elcarmean's Life List
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1. Help research cancer and other diseases with Folding at Home
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2. sail around the world
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3. Be an awesome big brother
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4. round cape horn
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5. get a captains license
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6. restore politeness, refinement, tact and other old-fashioned niceties
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7. travel the world
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8. Join the Peace Corps
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9. travel to every continent
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10. Stamp out mis-guided Ché adoration worldwide
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11. get a cat
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12. Learn how to remember peoples' names
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13. take massage lessons
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14. Learn to cook
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15. Read "Don Quijote de La Mancha"
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16. Buy a boat and sail the seven seas
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17. Walk the Camino de Santiago
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18. Practice random acts of kindness
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19. live aboard
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20. sail the mediterranean
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21. Learn a third language
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22. make a difference in someone's life
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23. Learn to surf
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24. Rid the world of alcohol (by drinking it.. one drink at a time)
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25. be able to bench press my body weight
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26. Read more books
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27. learn to ride a motorbike
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28. scuba dive more
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29. take the foreign service exam
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30. help people
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31. be like Amelie
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33. Continue to update my Goodreads list
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34. get better at darts
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35. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
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36. finish my masters
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37. practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty
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38. learn to ride a motorcycle
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39. build a snowman like Calvin
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41. Convince at least one 43er with the goal "become anorexic" that this is a really stupid goal...
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42. drink tea every day
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How I did it: I posted this in "run a marathon" also, but I ran Rome specifically, so I figured it should go here.I started running again in July, first following a 12 week 10k training program that wasn't for an actual 10k but rather to get me back into running. After that I prepared for a half marathon in Pisa (I'm living in Italy), which I ran in October in 1 hour and 35 minutes. After that I took a few weeks off before starting an 18-week marathon … Read how I did it…
How I did it: I started running again in July, first following a 12 week 10k training program that wasn't for an actual 10k but rather to get me back into running. After that I prepared for a half marathon in Pisa (I'm living in Italy), which I ran in October in 1 hour and 35 minutes. After that I took a few weeks off before starting an 18-week marathon training program for the Rome marathon. During my training program I ran the Barcelona half marathon… Read how I did it…
How I did it: I've run on and off for years, but hadn't run for many months when I started again in July. I started training and added miles each week slowly because I've had knee problems in the past, but by the beginning of October I was ready to run. With a few friends I signed up for the Pisa half-marathon (I'm living in Italy) and ran it in 1:35:00, which was far faster than I expected. Now if my knees hold up I'm on to the Rome marathon in March. Read how I did it…
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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!
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.
