Quinquin




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  1. 1. make love stay
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    5 people
  2. 2. get a visa for Germany
    1 person
  3. 3. improve my German
    2 entries . 14 cheers
    479 people
  4. 4. embroider a growth chart
    1 person
  5. 5. empty my inbox
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    8 people
  6. 6. downsize
    1 entry
    20 people
  7. 7. knit a scooter cover
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    1 person
  8. 8. host Couchsurfers more often
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    3 people
  9. 9. Reduce my ecological footprint
    374 people
  10. 10. Raise chickens
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    165 people
  11. 11. grow an herb garden
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    659 people
  12. 12. learn to make stained glass
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    137 people
  13. 13. write more letters
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    1,514 people
  14. 14. overcome my aversion to phones
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    116 people
  15. 15. return phone calls
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    69 people
  16. 16. learn to identify mushrooms
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    1 person
  17. 17. set a personal record for speed in using up a tube of toothpaste
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    2 people
  18. 18. put all of my opera recordings onto my iPod
    3 entries . 5 cheers
    1 person
  19. 19. visit Alaska via the Inside Passage
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    1 person
  20. 20. visit all 50 states
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    6,887 people
  21. 21. send more care packages to my friends
    2 entries . 9 cheers
    7 people
  22. 22. get a motorcycle endorsement on my license
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    6 people
  23. 23. learn to play the cello
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    740 people
  24. 24. resist consumerism
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    49 people
  25. 25. listen to all 24 hours of 9 Beet Stretch
    1 person
  26. 26. let myself cry more
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    2 people
  27. 27. learn the constellations
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    546 people
  28. 28. see Tom Waits perform live
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    64 people
  29. 29. get a pair of inline skates
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    2 people
  30. 30. learn to play the concertina
    1 entry
    11 people
  31. 31. try knitting a cable pattern
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    51 people
  32. 32. learn to crochet
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    976 people
  33. 33. create a sourdough starter
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    11 people
  34. 34. make sourdough bread
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    25 people
  35. 35. try new things
    5 entries . 4 cheers
    327 people
  36. 36. go to pastry school
    11 people
  37. 37. take a roadtrip across Canada
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    2 people
  38. 38. learn to make Senfgurken
    1 entry
    1 person
  39. 39. Watch 50 movies in 2009
    6 entries
    14 people
  40. 40. read 15 books in 2009
    2 entries
    8 people
  41. 41. Do 100 sit-ups daily for 100 consecutive days
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    203 people
  42. 42. Visit 50 of the world heritage sites
    81 people
Recent entries
read 15 books in 2009 (read all 2 entries…)
2. A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines 1 week ago

I don’t know who lent me this book or how it got into my possession. Somehow, it followed me to Germany. I wouldn’t say it was great literature, but it planted itself squarely in a real world and wove some fine images. It has its place.

A very simple story with ordinary characters living in a complex world and time. In Louisiana, in the late 40s, an uneducated black man is convicted of a crime and sentenced to death. His godmother (or grandmother?) enlists a friend’s reluctant nephew, an educated school-teacher, to make regular visits to the jail. The hope is that in a few short months, the schoolteacher can “make a man” out of him before he is executed.



watch 50 movies in 2009 (read all 6 entries…)
Untitled 1 week ago

25. Repo: The Genetic Opera

26. For Your Consideration

27. Zack and Miri Make a Porno

28. Rachel Getting Married



set a personal record for speed in using up a tube of toothpaste (read all 2 entries…)
Starting TODAY! 2 months ago

Opened a new jumbo tube of Arm & Hammer toothpaste today. Going to try to use this tube exclusively, bring it with me on my travels, and keep better track of it.

To be clear, my speed attempt is measuring regular everyday usage only. Not the speedy use of toothpaste for the purposes of art or as a short-range weapon.



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