Alyssa is a singular girl




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  1. 1. go to a hookah bar
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    26 people
  2. 2. ask out a guy
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    14 people
  3. 3. read "The Prince"
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    4 people
  4. 4. refinish my new old bookcase this winter
    2 entries . 19 cheers
    1 person
  5. 5. decoupage a journal cover with China stuff
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    1 person
  6. 6. make a plan to move abroad again
    4 entries . 31 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. do my own 101 cookbooks project
    33 entries . 21 cheers
    1 person
  8. 8. see every dead socialist leader whose body has been embalmed
    2 entries . 34 cheers
    2 people
  9. 9. go to Canada and eat at Tim Horton's
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    1 person
  10. 10. run a 10-minute mile
    4 entries . 27 cheers
    3 people
  11. 11. grow an herb garden
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    669 people
  12. 12. get a master's degree
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    2,957 people
  13. 13. knit a scarf
    2 entries . 37 cheers
    519 people
  14. 14. embroider a "sexy librarian" tote bag
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    1 person
  15. 15. get a 3.75 GPA fall semester
    2 entries . 8 cheers
    1 person
  16. 16. try one new kind of produce every month for the rest of the year
    4 entries . 8 cheers
    1 person
  17. 17. make seitan
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    5 people
  18. 18. take the Foreign Service exam
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    32 people
  19. 19. visit all seven continents
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    492 people
  20. 20. join the Peace Corps
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    2,382 people
  21. 21. run for office
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    136 people
  22. 22. visit India
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    886 people
  23. 23. publish something nationally
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    1 person
  24. 24. fly internationally in business class
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    1 person
  25. 25. finish a Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle
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    2 people
  26. 26. go to SXSW
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    179 people
  27. 27. ride an elephant
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    787 people
  28. 28. have a fondue party
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    20 people
  29. 29. start a trend
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    57 people
  30. 30. attend a black-tie event
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    1 person
  31. 31. spend a winter in a warm climate
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    3 people
  32. 32. enter a karaoke contest
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    18 people
  33. 33. write a zine article
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    1 person
  34. 34. see a ghost
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    571 people
  35. 35. appear on Jeopardy
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    18 people
  36. 36. play a didgeridu
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    3 people
  37. 37. learn to belly dance
    5 entries . 47 cheers
    2,296 people
  38. 38. have a dinner party
    2 entries . 18 cheers
    225 people
  39. 39. learn to sail
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    1,975 people
  40. 40. sing the song "My Hero" to my friend Hiro
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    1 person
  41. 41. own a piece of Le Creuset cookware
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    1 person
  42. 42. read books by authors of 43 different nationalities
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    2 people
  43. 43. go everywhere mentioned in Johnny Cash's "I've Been Everywhere"
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    1 person

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read books by authors of 43 different nationalities (read all 16 entries…)
#16. India 1 day ago

Since the beginning of my recent (re)obsession with India, I decided it was high time to read an Indian author. I tend to have about the same taste in books as a good friend of mine, and I knew she liked The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, so I chose that one. Plus, it won the Booker Prize a few years ago, and man alive, those Booker people choose good books.

Some of the writing was kind of annoying (and even a little hard to understand-I haven’t figured out what Locusts Stand I is yet; does anyone wanna clue me in?) but I liked the theme of the book, and I like the way you had to infer a lot of the really important parts, and all the jumps in time.



make a plan to move abroad again (read all 4 entries…)
My plans they are a-changing 4 days ago

When I started at school again, I got this grant which stipulates that I teach four years in a high-need school. Since I’d deferred my old plans to go abroad, I thought I’d just defer them a little longer, and get my four years out of the way before I worked abroad again.

But there’s an overseas job fair in Iowa in a couple of months, and the job market is crap, and I have eight years to do my four years of service.

I think I’m in the mood to head overseas again. I can’t decide where, but I’m not really that picky.



do my own 101 cookbooks project (read all 33 entries…)
Indophile? 1 week ago

Is that what you call someone who is enamored of India? Anglophile, Francophile…Indophile? This being said, I’ve never been to India, and I can’t speak any Indian language (although I do know how to say “What?” in Hindi.)

Maybe I’m just an Indian food-o-phile. That doesn’t roll off the tongue very nicely, though. But still, it explains why I blissfully spent my Sunday listening to public radio and cooking palak ka raita and a dish with a long name which I have forgotten (it had peas, paneer, and mushrooms) from Cuisines of India. This cookbook (the 36th) is really interesting. Truth be told, I don’t know a whole lot about Indian history, but there’s a lot of history in this book. I learned from this book that an Indian emperor once said, “I have two lips: One for drinking wine, and the other apologizing for drunkenness.” It was fated to be that one day, hundreds of years later, a pasty Midwestern girl would fall in love with this culture.



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