I'm doing 41 things
I swear this sucks a little more every day.
Patrick Harris's Life List
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1. organize my stuff
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2. tag my city with "You Are Beautiful" stickers.
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3. join an improv group
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4. only eat when I'm hungry
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5. learn fire poi
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6. learn how to spin records
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7. make love in the rain
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8. Learn Taiko drumming
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9. go to burning man
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10. breathe fire
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11. see the world
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12. attend the ice festival in China
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13. try sensory deprivation
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14. publish a novel
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15. Become fluent in more than one language
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16. Learn Aikido
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17. go on a sunlight deprivation retreat
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18. get corrective eye surgery or lasik
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19. Go to Gen Con
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20. go to dragon*con
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21. go to I-CON
1 person -
22. learn guitar
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23. minimize the way appearance influences my opinion of personality and intellect
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24. complete my 365 days project
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25. Learn the art of hibachi
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26. donate enough money to my undergrad institution to have a building named after me
1 person -
27. donate enough money to my grad school to get my name on one of the blocks of the sidewalk commemorating rich alumni
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28. finish my M.A.
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29. Get a PhD
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30. take a martial arts class during each of my remaining semesters of grad school
1 person -
31. visit LegoLand
10 people -
32. Tour the SF Armory & Kink.com offices
1 person -
33. go to MacWorld Expo
2 people -
34. take a wine appreciation class
3 people -
35. learn piano
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36. Learn the Alexander technique
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37. Buy a hypo-allergenic cat
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38. read every Heinlein book (that I have not already read)
1 person -
39. take a stunt driving class
3 people -
40. have a pet red panda
1 person -
41. go to SXSW
198 people
Recent entries
I don’t know if being a journalist is a career goal for me anymore. I do know that the university paper I write for and edit has more readers in the local community than the regional weekly, so I’m calling this done.
If you had told me one year ago that I would be so very delighted to get back to the gym after a week of schedule conflicts, I would have laughed in your face. And yet.
I’m not willing to call this ‘done’, at least not until I see that this is a permanent change, but I think I’m going to be pretty comfortable checking it off in a month or two.
