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ioet




I'm doing 41 things
  

ioet's Life List

  1. 1. recover from Bell's Palsy
    3 entries . 16 cheers     		4 people
  2. 2. speak, read, and write Japanese fluently
    3 cheers     		115 people
  3. 3. learn Russian
    1 entry . 6 cheers     		2,095 people
  4. 4. be culturally literate
    1 entry     		1 person
  5. 5. stop biting my gums
    1 cheer     		2 people
  6. 6. attend a major ice skating competition
    		1 person
  7. 7. go on a real date
    5 cheers     		82 people
  8. 8. stop worrying
    4 cheers     		1,790 people
  9. 9. write
    2 cheers     		1,177 people
  10. 10. study abroad
    1 cheer     		2,043 people
  11. 11. Be more approachable
    3 cheers     		95 people
  12. 12. see the pyramids
    3 cheers     		789 people
  13. 13. cut myself some slack
    1 entry . 4 cheers     		5 people
  14. 14. Improve my posture
    		2,363 people
  15. 15. learn Arabic
    1 cheer     		1,827 people
  16. 16. study Egyptology
    1 cheer     		17 people
  17. 17. Be able to read people
    3 cheers     		10 people
  18. 18. make more friends
    2 cheers     		4,408 people
  19. 19. live life on my own terms
    4 cheers     		9 people
  20. 20. become better at small-talk
    2 cheers     		1,646 people
  21. 21. eat a real truffle
    3 cheers     		19 people
  22. 22. make more prank phone calls
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		14 people
  23. 23. take a course on psychology
    		1 person
  24. 24. learn about the brain
    2 cheers     		1 person
  25. 25. study dreams
    2 cheers     		2 people
  26. 26. exercise more
    1 cheer     		4,456 people
  27. 27. walk with confidence
    2 cheers     		7 people
  28. 28. study a Scandinavian language
    1 cheer     		1 person
  29. 29. sing better
    1 cheer     		376 people
  30. 30. figure out what i want to do with my life
    3 cheers     		2,736 people
  31. 31. read all of Shakespeare's plays
    1 cheer     		126 people
  32. 32. practice languages with people without embarrassment
    3 cheers     		1 person
  33. 33. take an astronomy class
    1 cheer     		11 people
  34. 34. do something different
    1 cheer     		29 people
  35. 35. find love
    3 cheers     		1,597 people
  36. 36. get absorbed in what I love
    3 cheers     		1 person
  37. 37. glow inside
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		5 people
  38. 38. live
    1 cheer     		1,684 people
  39. 39. own a wardrobe of Anthropologie clothing
    		13 people
  40. 40. go to the ballet
    		36 people
  41. 41. travel across the US by train
    1 cheer     		8 people
Recent entries
be culturally literate
woot! 1 year ago

I’ve noticed that many books from the early 1900s and earlier expect readers to not only understand tons of random Greek/Roman/historical/Biblical references, but also French, German, and Latin… It’s crazy nowadays, but back then it seems that that was just what being educated was.

So yeah, I’m reading this book right now (PARADE’S END by Ford Madox Ford) that has references in nearly every paragraph to something I have no idea about. I want to understand all that! It felt so awesome just to be able to identify something that was from a Milton poem. Wouldn’t it be nice to understand more than 25% of all those references? :)

When I can read another book like this and thoroughly understand all (or most of) those allusions, I’ll have accomplished this goal.

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learn how to roll my Rs
woot! 1 year ago

I am SO happy I can do this now! It’s amazing. It took me years and years but I’ve finally gotten the trick of it – when I first made the sound, I was reading something in Japanese (out of all languages!) and I stopped and thought… “Wait…......” and then I managed to make it again, and again, and now I can do it almost whenever I want :) I can’t imagine a time I ever could NOT roll my r’s!

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recover from Bell's Palsy (read all 3 entries…)
On and on and... 2 years ago

STILL no change. I am such a mess!

At least I’m vaguely used to it by now…

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do art drink more water Make a beat live with integrity doingit4me wants to meditate be successful be beautiful earn $100 from google adsense make my own clothes one tree hill go to Switzerland be more positive Have better handwriting finish university hug a stranger go horseback riding swim across a lake love myself learn new languages davidd wants to complain less construct or live in an eco-friendly house use a ouija board completely change my life figure out where all the people like me are hiding visit the castles of ireland Go to the Metropolitan Opera Learn to cook