Try 100 new things (or actions, places, foods, etc) between now and the first day of autumn 2007

I’m finally finished. Here’s what I’ve accomplished …

1. Experience: Star in a Movie
2. Food: Salty Spicy Prunes
3. Experience: Interactive Computer Screen
4. Experience: Live with Strangers
5. Book: House on Mango Street
6. Experience: Wear a Suit to Work
7. Experience: IUD
8. Sport/Culture: Watch Sumo Wrestling Live
9. Food: Home Grown Peas
10. Experience: Throw a Tantrum
11. Food: Plastic Coated Cheese
12. Experience: Notice the First Something of the Season
13. Sport: Watch a College Baseball Game
14. Education: New Letters After my Name
15. Sport: Get the High Score on Ms. PacMan
16. Bicycle: Get Myself to Work and Home Without a Car
17. Bicycle: Change My Tire
18. Physical: The Elyptical
19. Bicycle: Ride a Two Storey Bike
20. Bicycle: Ride a Swing Bike
21. Bicycle: Ride a Bicycle Powered Swing
22. Bicycle: Ride a Bicycle Powered G-Force Machine
23. Bicycle: Ride a Bicycle Powered Ferris Wheel
24. Bicycle: Ride a Bicycle Powered Merry Go Round
25. Experience: Stand Unflinching in the Presence of Raw Power
26. Legal: Pay Off The Cops in TJ
27. Culture: Mexican Jumping Beans
28. Experience: Birthday Bandwagon
29. Activity: Bag a Local Peak
30. Food: Anasazi Beans
31. Bicycle: Bike Tag
32. Food: Tempeh
33. Culture: The Merry Wives of Windsor
34. Culture: Julius Ceasar
35. Food: Freeze Dried Ice Cream
36. Experience: Shave
37. Legal: Marry My Best Friend
38. Education: Go Back to the Bookstore at the End of the Semester
39. Experience: Visit Chris’s Grave
40. Experience: Chaperon a Date
41. Physical: Hike with the Sierra Club
42. Culture: Don Quixote
43. Food: Form a Coffee Addiction
44. Food: Ruby’s
45. Experience: Pedicure
46. Experience: Wireless Network
47. Experience: Sterile Dressing Change
48. Physical: Walk on a Glacier
49. Experience: Satellite Phone
50. Experience: Nude Beach
51. Culture: Drum Circle
52. Experience: Watching Metamorphosis Up Close
53. Experience: Book Crossing
54. Physical: Running through Sprinklers
55. Food: Pomegranate Mango Juice
56. Food: Apricot Fruit Leather
57. Culture: Kimono Appraisal
58. Food: Virgin Ice Cream
59. Food/Culture: Antique Oranges
60. Experience: Pedicure, Part II
61. Experience: Harvesting Compost
62. Physical: Cross Country Hike
63. Experience: Visit an Ancient Lake
64. Food: Dirty Burgers
65. Experience/Food: Soda Springs
66. Culture: Methuselah
67. Experience: Urinal
68. Food: A New Beer
69. Movie: What the Bleep Do We Know?
70. Bicycle: Remove and Replace my Bike’s Rear Wheel
71. Culture: Teach in Spanish
72. Experience: Post an Ad on Craigslist
73. Experience: Forge Metal
74. Food: Corn Bread and Milk
75. Experience: Let a 16-year-old with a learner’s Permit Drive me
76. Experience: Ask my sister for her recommendation
77. Legal: See the Flash and Cringe
78. Experience: Shopping alone with my BOYfriend’s Mom
79. Experience: Feel the Earth Move Under my Feet
80. TV: Watch my Namesake in Action
81. Experience: Buy a One-Way Airline Ticket
82. Culture: Give Directions in Spanish
83. Experience: Tea Tree Oil
84. Movie: Find out what Debbie Did
85. Experience: Bleach my Armpit Hair
86. Food: Vegetarian BBQ Ribs
87. Experience: Drink with Mom
88. Experience: Create with my Left Hand
89. Food: Sweet Potato Fries
90. Food: Chocolate Port
91. Food: Deep Fried Oreo Cookies
92. Food: Homemade Corn Tortillas
93. Experience: Knit a hat
94. Food: White Chocolate Pudding
95. Physical: Hike in the Grand Canyon
96. Experience: Wield a Chainsaw
97. Experience: Listen to Elk Bugling
98. Food: Açaí Smoothie
99. Experience: Make an Animal Yawn
100. Education: Attend the Lecture of a Nobel laureate

I saw Amartya Sen speak at my alma matter tonight. He received the Nobel prize in 1998 for his work as an economist studying the causes of famine.I’ve been out of the intellectual circuit for too long; I couldn’t follow the lecture as much as I would have liked to. But I was honored to sit and listen to him; to observe him.

NPR had a program a few weeks ago on the contagiousness of yawning. Though it was fascinating to listen to, I found myself yawning through it. Then, a few weeks later, I was at the Grand Canyon and I spent a bit of time hanging out with the mules. One of them yawned and made me yawn, so I decided to get back at him. I yawned in an over-exaggerated way in his face one or two times, and then he yawned back. I yawned again, so did he. It was sooooooooo funny!

I tried a smoothie made with açaí juice. Yummy, and very good for me.

I was in the Grand Canyon in early Autumn, which means it was rutting season for the elk. The sound that came to me through to forests in the night and early morning were unlike anything I would have expected. Haunting.

L needed some branches cut, so I gave it a try. I was told after the fact that an electric chainsaw doesn’t have nearly the power that a gas-powered one does, but I retorted that it doesn’t dilute my experience: I’ve now cut through parts of a tree that I would have never before imagined possible.

I’ve always wanted to do it, now I have. What a beautiful experience.

GO ROCKIES!!!!!!

These were bulk bin newtons at the market and I think they are a little stale…or are they supposed to be that hard?

I dont know how to prepare it…but it looked yummy so I bought it. Im open to suggestions on preparation.