I'm doing 42 things
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.
Alyssa is a singular girl's Life List
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1. go to a hookah bar
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2. ask out a guy
2 entries . 58 cheers14 people -
3. read "The Prince"
2 entries . 34 cheers4 people -
4. see a movie alone
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5. refinish my new old bookcase this winter
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6. make a plan to move abroad again
3 entries . 21 cheers1 person -
7. do my own 101 cookbooks project
28 entries . 12 cheers1 person -
8. see every dead socialist leader whose body has been embalmed
2 entries . 28 cheers2 people -
9. go to Canada and eat at Tim Horton's
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10. learn to mix at least one dynamite cocktail
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11. run a 10-minute mile
4 entries . 11 cheers3 people -
12. grow an herb garden
2 entries . 17 cheers659 people -
13. get a master's degree
4 entries . 87 cheers2,794 people -
14. make it through summer term with at least a 3.5 GPA
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15. take the Foreign Service exam
30 cheers33 people -
16. visit all seven continents
34 cheers475 people -
17. join the Peace Corps
1 entry . 50 cheers2,313 people -
18. run for office
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19. visit India
39 cheers855 people -
20. get backstage at a concert
35 cheers13 people -
21. publish something nationally
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22. fly internationally in business class
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23. finish a Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle
1 entry . 25 cheers2 people -
24. go to SXSW
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25. ride an elephant
37 cheers742 people -
26. knit a scarf
31 cheers503 people -
27. have a fondue party
41 cheers20 people -
28. start a trend
15 cheers57 people -
29. attend a black-tie event
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30. spend a winter in a warm climate
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31. enter a karaoke contest
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32. write a zine article
1 entry . 14 cheers1 person -
33. see a ghost
12 cheers564 people -
34. appear on Jeopardy
13 cheers18 people -
35. play a didgeridu
1 entry . 19 cheers3 people -
36. learn to belly dance
5 entries . 45 cheers2,253 people -
37. have a dinner party
2 entries . 18 cheers221 people -
38. learn to sail
16 cheers1,925 people -
39. sing the song "My Hero" to my friend Hiro
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40. own a piece of Le Creuset cookware
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41. read books by authors of 43 different nationalities
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42. go everywhere mentioned in Johnny Cash's "I've Been Everywhere"
1 entry . 24 cheers1 person
How I did it
It made me 
How I did it: I volunteered for the Minnesota DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Laborer) party. My volunteering involved cold-calling people and knocking on doors. Two things I do NOT like doing. It was a good cause, no doubt, but it made me way too nervous. Read how I did it…
Recent 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.
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.)
