elcarmean




I'm doing 40 things
 

elcarmean's Life List

  1. 1. Help research cancer and other diseases with Folding at Home
    10 team members . 9 entries . 38 cheers
    9 people
  2. 2. sail around the world
    32 cheers
    798 people
  3. 3. Be an awesome big brother
    2 entries . 47 cheers
    2 people
  4. 4. round cape horn
    14 cheers
    10 people
  5. 5. get a captains license
    11 cheers
    2 people
  6. 6. restore politeness, refinement, tact and other old-fashioned niceties
    43 cheers
    65 people
  7. 7. travel the world
    15 cheers
    15,221 people
  8. 8. Join the Peace Corps
    25 cheers
    2,046 people
  9. 9. speak spanish fluently
    19 cheers
    1,859 people
  10. 10. travel to every continent
    2 entries . 21 cheers
    1,276 people
  11. 11. Stamp out mis-guided Ché adoration worldwide
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    12 people
  12. 12. get a cat
    23 cheers
    760 people
  13. 13. Learn how to remember peoples' names
    8 cheers
    1,496 people
  14. 14. take massage lessons
    15 cheers
    92 people
  15. 15. Learn to cook
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    6,609 people
  16. 16. run a half marathon
    7 cheers
    1,467 people
  17. 17. Read "Don Quijote de La Mancha"
    13 cheers
    72 people
  18. 18. Buy a boat and sail the seven seas
    10 cheers
    10 people
  19. 19. Walk the Camino de Santiago
    9 cheers
    139 people
  20. 20. Practice random acts of kindness
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    742 people
  21. 21. live aboard
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    22 people
  22. 22. sail the mediterranean
    1 entry . 8 cheers
    65 people
  23. 23. Learn a third language
    12 cheers
    142 people
  24. 24. make a difference in someone's life
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    1,017 people
  25. 25. Learn to surf
    11 cheers
    6,010 people
  26. 26. Rid the world of alcohol (by drinking it.. one drink at a time)
    4 team members . 13 cheers
    14 people
  27. 27. be able to bench press my body weight
    4 cheers
    66 people
  28. 28. Read more books
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    9,354 people
  29. 29. learn to ride a motorbike
    6 cheers
    236 people
  30. 30. scuba dive more
    8 cheers
    73 people
  31. 31. help people
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    1,179 people
  32. 32. get better at darts
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    34 people
  33. 33. be like Amelie
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    49 people
  34. 34. drink tea every day
    7 cheers
    19 people
  35. 35. 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...
    21 cheers
    9 people
  36. 36. take the foreign service exam
    4 cheers
    29 people
  37. 37. Convince at least one 43er with the goal "become anorexic" that this is a really stupid goal...
    4 team members . 6 cheers
    5 people
  38. 38. practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty
    10 cheers
    12 people
  39. 39. build a snowman like Calvin
    2 cheers
    3 people
  40. 40. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
    1 cheer
    373 people
Recent entries
Kite Surf
I finally learned to kite surf 2 months ago

I’ve been trying to get lessons for about 5 years (believe it or now, kite surfing has been around that long!) and I finally went kitesurfing for four days in Hua Hin, Thailand (just like Alpenprinzessin below me! I also would call it “my new obsession” like she does). It was amazing and while I still can’t consistently get upwind, I can get up on the board and cruise almost every try, and get pretty far each time. It was so much fun that I’m going to buy my own gear this summer and spend about two months at the beach in New York to keep kite surfing.


Read more books
I'm doing pretty well so far this year. 4 months ago

Since January I’ve read:
(1)Love in the Time of Cholera, (2)Memories of my Melancholy Whores, and (3)Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez;
(4)Dr. Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party and (5)Orient Express by Graham Greene;
(6)A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens;
(7)Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx;
(8)Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie;
(9)The Zahir by Paolo Coelho;
(10)Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

and am currently reading:
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond;
Sea Fever a book of selected poetry by John Masefield;
Triumph on Everest, A Tribute From the Sherpas of Nepal

I think 10 books so far this year is pretty decent since I’m working full time and living in a crazy and fun foreign country. Of course, I’d love to be reading as much as SpaceCakeGirl, who seems to have read a number of the same books as I have this year, along with many more. I’m jealous.


Go to graduate school
acceptances are wonderful 4 months ago

because they mean that I can actually go to grad school next year! So far I’ve been accepted to three schools, which I’m thrilled about because the schools I applied to are all ridiculously competitive. Now I just have to find out how horrible the debt I’ll be in afterwards will be, come on financial aid…


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