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9 months ago
12. The Hills have Eyes 2 – just awful. But I sort of knew that going in…
spookyboy's Life List
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1. create a private library
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2. write real letters to someone
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3. collect every edition of The Neverending Story by Michael Ende ever made
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4. open a used bookshop
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5. Skydive
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6. open a coffee shop
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7. learn a bunch of languages
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8. blog professionally
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9. translate Die Unendliche Geschichte
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10. buy a studebaker
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11. be a supervillain
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12. learn to play guitar
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13. read finnegan's wake
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14. finally get my PhD from somewhere
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15. live by the sea
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16. spend an entire day watching the extended version of all three Lord of the Rings movies back-to-back-to-back
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17. see Tanya Donelly in concert
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18. keep a wine log
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19. Have an underground lair
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20. pay off my debts
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21. Watch every Muppet movie back to back
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22. Watch every Muppet Show episode
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23. donate some money every month to the Benedictine monastry of which I'm a Confrater
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24. go to a deserted place and scream until i am hoarse
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25. Listen to a new random band every week.
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26. get out of cincinnati
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27. Build a time capsule
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28. launch a weather balloon with a disposable camera attached and my return address
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29. kiss in a library
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30. Read the ALA 100 Most Freqently Challenged Books of 1990-2000
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31. Be paid abundantly for doing what I love
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32. learn French fluently
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33. Watch 1000 horror films that I haven't already seen
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34. get a motorcycle endorsement
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35. let my few remaining friends know they're appreciated
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36. Get an SLR digital camera
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37. stop wondering if my divorce could have been prevented
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38. only have regrets for the things i did and never for the things i didn't do
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39. Start a Buddy Check 12 team here on 43things, in support of Breast Cancer awareness. Do your self-exam the 12th of every month.
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40. learn to kythe
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How I did it
It made me
yay theologians 
How I did it: Have had a few actually. In fact that's all my degrees are really good for. but especially last night I had an hour-some long theological conversation with a very intense young woman. She's obviously searching though she would never admit it (neither did I at that age).Plus she had pretty eyes. So did I at that age... Read how I did it…
It made me
I'm glad. 
How I did it: After nine months any job is a job I enjoy just so I can get a bit of cash flow going. I'm hoping this will see me through the next year or so until I'm back in graduate school. Read how I did it…
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14 months ago
I suppose I’m not alone in this; where one part of the former “couple” can’t stop crying for the way things used to be and the other only cries when it seems to make an “impression” on the first one’s family. I have little time for martyrs that way.
She’s gone on with her life, is passing all her architecture exams (well, almost all..hah…), is rearranging the house (i.e. throwing out ANYTHING that might remind her of me). Last weekend I even suggested we all go to the Renaissance Faire together; neutral, non-romantic, just the three of us. Oh no, she was busy…..until Monday when COINCIDENTALLY she found time to take my daughter.
no, no, sorry, that’s bullshit. BULLSHIT. Don’t try and nice your way out of this one because you can’t. My mother may buy that it was an “innocent mistake” buy there’s just no way.
I, frankly, do not care if you normally come out smelling like roses or even if you’ve come to believe you really DO smell like roses. I’ve been forced to deal with my problems. You still think your problems are just me.
Grow. the fuck. up.
