I'm doing 35 things
last night
3 years ago
Started! In earnest this time (I think). I’m moving soon, and plan to pack all the rest of the books (save The Joy of Cooking) early on, so there’ll be nothing else to read but J.Crew catalogs. :-)
magdalenp's Life List
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1. Read Don Quixote
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2. read Catch-22
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3. Finish reading Infinite Jest
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4. read war and peace
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5. finish finnegans wake
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6. learn CPR
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7. learn how to drive stick-shift
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8. write a good novel
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9. pay off credit cards
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10. have more dinner parties
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11. be more patient with my family
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12. post more pictures to flickr
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13. keep in touch with old friends
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14. make new friends
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15. get rid of my clutter
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16. decide what the hell I would like to do with the rest of my life
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17. learn to cartwheel
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18. live in a foreign country
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19. write more
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20. start running again
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21. not worry about what others think of me
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22. overcome my aversion to being photographed
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23. learn to knit
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24. learn to quilt
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25. sing more
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26. have no regrets
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27. Make yogurt
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28. be more forgiving
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29. go to Mass more often
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30. be less judgmental
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31. be more grateful
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32. relax
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33. work as a drawbridge tender
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34. work as a New York City subway conductor
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35. visit antarctica
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Done! Woo!
3 years ago
Totally worth it—the prose is kind of loopy and breathless, but the book is great. Pretty gripping for such a big book….
