I'm doing 38 things
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3 years ago
Now I have the best cat in the universe
elidor's Life List
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1. be a professor at MIT
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2. get my travel column published
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3. visit all inhabited plate tectonics
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4. bike across Norway
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5. take a goldsmithing course
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6. climb Adam's Peak in Sri Lanka
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7. see the northern lights
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8. try and read 50 books a year
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9. climb Mt. Rainier
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10. Finish my PhDs
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11. put $5000 in an IRA for 2008
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12. eat a big mac in India
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13. Run 5km without stopping
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14. get a patent
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15. ride a horse on the beach
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16. go to burning man
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17. start a toy company
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18. have my name on 15 scientific papers during 2009
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19. go to Oshkosh airshow
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20. hike the appalachian trail
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21. climb a fourteener
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22. learn the words to more songs so i can sing to myself when hiking long trails
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23. Explore California!
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24. go kayak backpacking
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25. Work in Australia
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26. become a ham radio operator
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27. read all the books I have before I buy another new book!
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28. Hike the Grand Canyon rim to rim
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29. Hike the West Coast Trail
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30. Attend TED
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31. be properly fluent in four languages
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32. get a postdoc at a top 10 world university
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33. honeymoon in Alaska
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34. have a weekly brunch
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35. be elected to the National Academy
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36. convince more people that shape memory compounds are multiferroics
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37. work 2500 hours per year
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38. Take a Wilderness First Responder course
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Recent entries
it occurs to me that I don't care
3 years ago
by “super” i really meant somewhere between “adequate” and “self-sufficient”, or, able to deal with my own problems but not tremendously interested in being tech support for everyone and their grandmother, like some of the kids I know who have accidentally developed this marketable skill. You know? So, yes, I’m a quitter, but that’s okay. :)
and every year
3 years ago
well the goal was just for 2005 but really I’d like to make it a more regular thing. Anyone have a car?
