I'm doing 40 things
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
Ren D.'s Life List
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1. write a book and have it published
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2. Lose 10 pounds
5,832 people -
3. graduate from berkeley
7 people -
4. stop procrastinating
26,233 people -
5. quit my sorority
1 person -
6. Quit Facebook stalking
13 people -
7. Take over the world
728 people -
8. make a smaller ecological footprint
1,044 people -
9. find time to play
13 people -
10. eat more locally grown food
284 people -
11. write a musical
252 people -
12. work for the CIA
65 people -
13. explore the Bay Area
70 people -
14. Read all of Kurt Vonnegut's books
134 people -
15. Visit Okinawa
26 people -
16. be more of a Sydney Carton and less of a Stephen Dedalus
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17. Have an out-of-body experience
128 people -
18. go back to Hawaii
146 people -
19. exercise more
5,002 people -
20. eat healthier
9,734 people -
21. drink more water
18,376 people -
22. be rich and anonymous
4 people -
23. befriend (not own) an armadillo
1 person -
24. write a best-selling novel
118 people -
25. live instead of exist
631 people -
26. learn to knit or crochet
55 people -
27. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
18,105 people -
28. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
1 entry542 people -
29. read all the books I own
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30. Read Dr. Peter Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1 entry21 people -
31. read all Thomas Pynchon
1 entry2 people -
32. read all of James Joyce's novels
1 entry2 people -
33. stop spending so much money
184 people -
34. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
7,431 people -
35. Obtain and play a keytar
2 people -
36. Read more books
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37. drop out of college
1 entry69 people -
38. become better at small-talk
1 cheer1,899 people -
39. stop checking Facebook daily
1 cheer15 people -
40. create a manga
1 entry70 people
Recent entries
oh augustine
11 months ago
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.
i'm totally obsessed
11 months ago
I’ve read The Crying of Lot 49, V., and Gravity’s Rainbow and am itching to read Mason & Dixon which I just bought.
