Finished “An American Tragedy.” Hated it. Only one so far. Blah.
jnissa's Life List
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1. learn to belly dance
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2. see the great wall of china
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3. have a garden
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4. read all of "Times" best 100 novels of all time
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5. organize a family reunion
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6. visit australia
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7. visit antarctica.
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8. write a book of fairytales
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9. run hood to coast
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10. do the tour d'afrique
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11. visit alaska
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12. visit kyoto
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13. see the chilli peppers live one last time before they're too old!
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14. drink sangria in madrid, seville AND barcelona
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15. go ice skating at rockefeller center
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16. get drunk on a river boat
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17. go to chicago for a weekend and eat nothing but pizza and hot dogs
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18. see "The Magic Flute" performed
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19. see a hockey game IN CANADA
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20. visit Minneapolis
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21. go to a Steelers home opener
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22. fly to europe for just one night and fly back the next day.
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23. see the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
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24. stand on a glacier
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25. do wildflower
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26. see yo yo ma perform
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27. skinny dip in the pacific
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28. take one weekend in babcock
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29. take my mother to a really nice spa for a day
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30. eat saltwater taffy on the boardwalk in Atlantic City with Daphne
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31. take equestrian lessons
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32. own a custom piece of Jeanine Payer jewlery
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33. go to a high school football game in October in Western PA
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34. live debt free
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35. lock myself in a room for a week and play EVERY zelda game from ocarina on straight through while eating only takeout
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36. throw the world's most insane 40th birthday party
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37. Eat lobster in Bar Harbor
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38. see leonard cohen perform live
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I was cleaning up today around here, and realized I’d done this one. I have really fond memories of 6th Street from my youth, but I hadn’t been back to Texas for a long time. Luckily, Paul & Kari got married there so I got to relive the scene with AB, Shafton and the Kolodny’s. We even had a hammered 21 year old with us (was he even 21?), so it was just like old times.
Okay, maybe not just like old times. I ended the night sober and stayed at a Holiday Inn. That’s not like how we used to do it.
Though it’s probably the most exciting time in a long time to live in America, I’ve finally escaped Vegas for the euro living Montreal. In retrospect, I’ll miss Vegas. It has great weather, the strip, wonderful friends, pottery night and Hoover Dam. But I can’t grow there and I’m ready for something new. So something new it is.


