Alyssa is a singular girl




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  1. 1. go to a hookah bar
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    23 people
  2. 2. ask out a guy
    2 entries . 58 cheers
    14 people
  3. 3. read "The Prince"
    2 entries . 34 cheers
    4 people
  4. 4. see a movie alone
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    9 people
  5. 5. refinish my new old bookcase this winter
    2 entries . 9 cheers
    1 person
  6. 6. make a plan to move abroad again
    3 entries . 21 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. do my own 101 cookbooks project
    28 entries . 12 cheers
    1 person
  8. 8. see every dead socialist leader whose body has been embalmed
    2 entries . 28 cheers
    2 people
  9. 9. go to Canada and eat at Tim Horton's
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    1 person
  10. 10. learn to mix at least one dynamite cocktail
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    1 person
  11. 11. run a 10-minute mile
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    3 people
  12. 12. grow an herb garden
    2 entries . 17 cheers
    659 people
  13. 13. get a master's degree
    4 entries . 87 cheers
    2,794 people
  14. 14. make it through summer term with at least a 3.5 GPA
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    1 person
  15. 15. take the Foreign Service exam
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    33 people
  16. 16. visit all seven continents
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    475 people
  17. 17. join the Peace Corps
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    2,313 people
  18. 18. run for office
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    132 people
  19. 19. visit India
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    855 people
  20. 20. get backstage at a concert
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    13 people
  21. 21. publish something nationally
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    1 person
  22. 22. fly internationally in business class
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    1 person
  23. 23. finish a Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle
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    2 people
  24. 24. go to SXSW
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    179 people
  25. 25. ride an elephant
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    742 people
  26. 26. knit a scarf
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    503 people
  27. 27. have a fondue party
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    20 people
  28. 28. start a trend
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    57 people
  29. 29. attend a black-tie event
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    1 person
  30. 30. spend a winter in a warm climate
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    3 people
  31. 31. enter a karaoke contest
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    17 people
  32. 32. write a zine article
    1 entry . 14 cheers
    1 person
  33. 33. see a ghost
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    564 people
  34. 34. appear on Jeopardy
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    18 people
  35. 35. play a didgeridu
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    3 people
  36. 36. learn to belly dance
    5 entries . 45 cheers
    2,253 people
  37. 37. have a dinner party
    2 entries . 18 cheers
    221 people
  38. 38. learn to sail
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    1,925 people
  39. 39. sing the song "My Hero" to my friend Hiro
    2 entries . 17 cheers
    1 person
  40. 40. own a piece of Le Creuset cookware
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    1 person
  41. 41. read books by authors of 43 different nationalities
    8 entries . 8 cheers
    1 person
  42. 42. go everywhere mentioned in Johnny Cash's "I've Been Everywhere"
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    1 person

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make it through summer term with at least a 3.5 GPA
Not to toot my own horn... 2 days ago

but toot toot. I’ve been totally kicking school’s ass. I think I’ll be able to do this with GPA to spare.

Presuming my psych final next week cooperates, of course.



read books by authors of 43 different nationalities (read all 8 entries…)
#8. Mexico 1 week ago

All I knew about Tina Modotti was that she was a photographer and that Madonna wanted to play her in a movie that never got made. Maybe this is just my leftist, damn-the-man tendency speaking, but I think I never knew about her because she was a Communist. (Much like I had no idea Helen Keller became a Communist until I went to college.)

This morning I finished Tinisima by Elena Poniatowska. That Tina, she was one interesting broad.

Of course, there is the fact that fictionalized biographies drive me batty, a fact that I always forget until I read one. For the love of pete, I need to know what’s fiction and what’s biography! It took me a long time to get through this book (thanks, Educational Psych homework) but to be frank, I was anxious to finish it and move on to another book. It wasn’t bad, just okay.



get a masters degree (read all 4 entries…)
Yikes. 3 weeks ago

I’m one week in, and I think I’m running on about 12 hours of sleep for the entire time. I’ve forgotten what it’s like to be in class for six hours a day.

“If you think summer term is busy, just wait until you hit fall,” the instructors told my group at orientation last month.

Ugh.

(On the upside, man, linguistics is interesting.)



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