smallboatcaptain




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  1. 1. Go camping
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  2. 2. Read every Kurt Vonnegut novel
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  3. 3. publish a poem
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  4. 4. Visit a Presidential library
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  5. 5. Attend a taping of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!
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  6. 6. Live in DC
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  7. 7. Have scandalous friends
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  8. 8. Be in a brochure
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  9. 9. join the peace corps
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  10. 10. read the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
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  11. 11. put some elbow grease into college applications
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  12. 12. Learn to use the semicolon fluently
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  13. 13. Write more letters
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  14. 14. Take a train somewhere
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  15. 15. Fill up my diary
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  16. 16. Meet Paul Simon
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  17. 17. beat Ms. Abernathy in Scrabble
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  18. 18. Have a stunning senior reading
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  19. 19. Become fluent in Prohibition-era slang
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  20. 20. Leave the country
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  21. 21. Live alone or with Carolyn Kerchof
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  22. 22. Eat Ethiopian food
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  23. 23. Read every Nick Hornby novel (Songbook doesn't count)
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  24. 24. join mensa
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  25. 25. Be part of some great cultural movement
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  26. 26. get a tattoo
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  27. 27. Survive something impressive
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  28. 28. Go to Lollapalooza
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  29. 29. learn to knit
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  30. 30. Read "What is Found There" by Adrienne Rich
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  31. 31. Go somewhere full of famous people
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  32. 32. Get my camera fixed
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  33. 33. Do something lovely for my mother
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  34. 34. Get a job
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  35. 35. swim thrice a week
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  36. 36. Sell all of the terrible CDs I own
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  37. 37. Drive a magic bus
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  38. 38. meet Eddie Izzard
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  39. 39. Go on a date with an English major
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  40. 40. Cash all my change
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  41. 41. Cook someone dinner
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  42. 42. Take a road trip
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  43. 43. See Beck live
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Recent entries
floss
Untitled 4 years ago

I’ve done this perhaps half a dozen times over the last sixth months, mostly driven by the consumption of whole ears’ worth of corn.

I went to the dentist today; my teeth are immaculate. Beitelman claims flossing is for gum health rather than the prevention of cavities; frankly the successful maintenance of my tooth enamel is enough of an oral health accomplishment.

Mankind has survived for long enough without the ritual of flossing. Plus it’s really hard with a permanent retainer.



Read "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (read all 2 entries…)
yeah, this book's awesome. 4 years ago

“I see a dice.
I see it from the inside, me at the bottom. I’m the weight, loading the dice to throw that number one up there above me. They got the dice loaded to throw a snake eyes, and I’m the load, six lumbs around me like white pillows is the other side of the dice, the number six that will always be down when he throws. What’s the other dice loaded for? I bet it’s loaded to throw one too. Snake eyes. They’re shooting with crookies against him, and I’m the load.
Look out, here comes the toss. Ay, lady, the smokehouse is empty and baby needs a new pair of opera pumps. Comin’ at ya. Faw!
Crapped out.”



Sell all of the terrible CDs I own
Untitled 4 years ago

today i was inspired by some new music i discovered via limewire and finally went through my old cds. i realized that between the plastic bagful i’ve had in my bookshelf for the last year and this new tower, there’s at least a few hundred dollars in it for me if i swallow my fear of other people’s opinion of my terrible, terrible history of taste in music.



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