I'm doing 28 things
I was reading a poem. The first line was something like “the poet has [verb]ed _”. It was maybe thirty evenly measured lines long, one big stanza, and there was a repeating theme of something like “as certainly as Eckvolt lived under the sea”. Eckvolt might have been the name of a Christian saint who was martyred by being thrown into the ocean? Or maybe a saint who just decided to move down there, I’m not sure.
Then there was a blue cult leader who was being interviewed sitting behind a chess board that was full of small, bright blue models of himself. “Things are simpler now that I let my past rule me,” he said.
There was a woman with curly reddish hair who never got over something. She was driven by it to live apart from her husband and child in a small, weird brick house.
Eventually, when her hair was grey, she gained some measured of relief from cutting off her right arm.
stargirl0's Life List
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1. be happy
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2. live simply
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3. remember that I am free and alive
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4. decide what the hell I would like to do with the rest of my life
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5. dance more
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6. Learn to fly
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7. live in the woods
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8. play strip poker with giant robots
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9. Learn to pick locks
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10. Learn to knit
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11. learn to swing dance
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12. learn to walk in heels
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13. save the world
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14. pet a walrus for many minutes
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15. see a gorilla
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16. be proud of what I create
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17. send more snail mail
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18. find beautiful things
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19. be a good friend
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20. post quotes from my dreams
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21. Keep a journal
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22. weigh 125 pounds
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23. get better grades
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24. study abroad
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25. travel cross country
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26. hug a giant sequoia tree
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27. talk to strangers
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28. get a car
1 entry1,580 people
How I did it: We began our conversation as a sort of exercise in hope - the hope that we would get through the winter and escape somewhere come spring. We looked at pictures of graffiti on the internet and read about German architects. One thing led to another until suddenly one day we were on a plane, flying through the night to Scandinavia. We moved through foreign countries in absolute innocence, looking for beauty and real places. When we were mist… Read how I did it…
How I did it: Hold in your mind's eye the image of your ideal Jesus. Perhaps He is a disco devotee, eating ice cream, selling insurance, an angry nun, or Sylvester Stalone. Contemplating your ideal Jesus, begin to sketch His outline. Do not neglect to include the necessary disco ball, good humor wrapper, pie chart, ruler, or boxing gloves. Then, taking great care and caution, insert a stylin' red cruiser between the legs of Ideal Jesus (tm). … Read how I did it…
How I did it: Every day is a new chance to fall in love with people and their potential. People move around in smooth arcs or spiky arcs with smooth or spiky minds, interfacing or bouncing or becoming enmeshed, and the dances they do are as beautiful as the dances done by robins or bumblebees or tulips. People wear jackets with brass buttons, and people wear checkered pink and tan blazers, and people wear pin striped shorts, and people wear grins. Peop… Read how I did it…
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I’ve always denied that I had any real interest in having a driver’s license, never mind my own car. However, now that I’ve finally passed my road test, I keep finding myself eyeing other people’s sedans as I trudge through various parking lots. My parents have threatened/offered to buy me one before, and so I’m secretly wondering if they’re thinking at all about my 20th birthday present…
Taking the test on Wednesday!!!!!! In Haverhill, which I had to find on a map after scheduling the appointment.
Oh my god, maybe I will even stop having nightmares about this if I pass this time!!!!!
No but seriously, my parents are starting to make threatening noises along the lines of “going all the way to Haverhill, whatever that is, is incredibly annoying and you had better pass this test, because seriously, it’s about time”....
And I’m like, I NO RITE?
