I'm doing 30 things
Do I attract toxic people because I am toxic myself?
Ren D.'s Life List
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1. write a book and have it published
1 entry2,727 people -
2. be rich and anonymous
4 people -
3. befriend (not own) an armadillo
1 person -
4. write a best-selling novel
137 people -
5. live instead of exist
664 people -
6. learn to knit or crochet
63 people -
7. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
21,230 people -
8. read all the books I own
1 entry1,279 people -
9. Read Dr. Peter Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1 entry26 people -
10. read all Thomas Pynchon
1 entry3 people -
11. read all of James Joyce's novels
1 entry2 people -
12. Obtain and play a keytar
3 people -
13. create a manga
1 entry85 people -
14. stop being afraid
620 people -
15. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
1 entry591 people -
16. eat healthier
11,040 people -
17. Read more books
1 cheer11,820 people -
18. stop procrastinating
30,017 people -
19. Take over the world
735 people -
20. make a smaller ecological footprint
1,029 people -
21. find time to play
12 people -
22. eat more locally grown food
271 people -
23. write a musical
282 people -
24. be more of a Sydney Carton and less of a Stephen Dedalus
1 cheer1 person -
25. Read all of Kurt Vonnegut's books
159 people -
26. Visit Okinawa
31 people -
27. Have an out-of-body experience
144 people -
28. go back to Hawaii
164 people -
29. exercise more
5,561 people -
30. be paid for a piece of writing
39 people
Recent entries
1. I’m American.
2. I don’t know Japanese.
3. It would require too much effort to write and draw something that reads from right-to-left.
Current favorites:
Cardcaptor Sakura
Fruits Basket
Death Note
xxxHolic
I’ve only read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which leaves (the following copied from Wikipedia):
- Stephen Hero (written 1904–6, published 1944)
- Chamber Music (1907 poems)
- Giacomo Joyce (written 1907, published 1968)
- Dubliners (1914)
- Exiles (1918 play)
- Ulysses (1922)
- Pomes Penyeach (1927 poems)
- Collected Poems(1936 poems)
- Finnegans Wake (1939)
- Giacomo Joyce (1968 poems)
- James Joyce’s Letters to Sylvia Beach, 1921-1940 (1987)
Shit. That’s way more than I thought there were.
