I'm doing 38 things
European Parliamentary elections
4 months ago
I vote Conservative. If I’m honest I’m quote horrified their new bloc consists of Polish Law and Justice MEPs. Next up will my first general election.
modtro's Life List
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1. stop procrastinating
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2. vote in every election
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3. read more non-fiction
89 people -
4. improve my Spanish
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5. explore my mind
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6. get with a (native) Brightonian school boy
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7. improve my badminton skills
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8. join a book group
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9. meet Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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10. know how to solve a Rubik's Cube
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11. kiss the Blarney Stone
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12. do Improv again
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13. go to Oxbridge
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14. volunteer at the Olympics
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15. improve my Japanese
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16. learn British Sign Language
122 people -
17. date a Norwegian
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18. date a Japanese guy
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19. make out with a Mormon
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20. buy my house
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21. get a nose job
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22. overcome my anal inhibitions
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23. work for Google
393 people -
24. visit the Netherlands
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25. visit Japan
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26. visit New York City
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27. get dual citizenship
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28. write a book and have it published
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29. run for public office
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30. promote secularism
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31. help legalize medical marijuana
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32. quit smoking cigarettes
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33. be a father
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34. bring up tolerant, intelligent, self-confident children
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35. go to DisneyWorld
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36. endow a scholarship
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37. teach
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38. write a memoir
315 people
How I did it
It made me
Enchanted 
How I did it: A guy called at a couple of friends and I from over the road in Brixton one night when we were on our way to a nightclub. He yelled, "Eh! Eh, you want a kitten?" I had actually wanted a kitten for a while so, when he pulled out a little kitty from a plastic carry case we told him to come over to us. He started jaywalking like frogger over the A23 with a little kitty in his hand so my friend took him off him and he said, … Read how I did it…
It made me
Excited
How I did it: I decided I didn't really want to stay at my school for sixth form (the last two years before university), and I knew I wanted to do the International Baccalaureate. The only state school in London that offered it didn't have a very good selection of subjects, and all the other (fee-paying) schools only had scholarships for current students who had fallen on bad times.I was speaking to my maths teacher (who I was later told had taught at … Read how I did it…
Recent entries
Third time not so lucky
4 months ago
I got my first Oxford rejection at the end of last year. It can join my two Cambridge rejections in boosting my Oxbridge reject credentials.
Screw this .. can’t wallow around in further education for another year or more .. I’m off to Sussex in September, if this goes well I’ll consider a postgrad application.
Untitled
13 months ago
Captain Pimlico .. twelve weeks old on Saturday .. he might not be so playful forever!
