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Monday, January 20, 2003

life's to do list

i've become overly fond of making lists these days. so here we go:

100 50 things i want to do before i die tragically from stupid thing i do to myself (the things i've already done, i crossed out. i needed to feel a sense of accomplishment today)

1. go to rome
2. go to paris
3. go to ireland
4. read finnegan's wake
5. go to new york
6. learn how to oil paint
7. make out with chris cornell (a girl can dream, can't she?)
8. publish a novel
9. own prada shoes
10. actually redeem my marlboro miles on something
11. play the piano really well
12. drink cuban beer
13. see the taj mahal
14. visit my father's homeland
15. figure out how to smoothly apply liquid eyeliner
16. drink a beer in a beer hall in munich
17. learn all the romance languages
18. learn arabic
19. redevelop my fluency in spanish
20. read the whole bible
21. try portuguese food
22. learn how to cook thai food
23. delve into the world of flash hilarity
24. actually understand something about math
25. watch weird japanese commercials... in japan
26. fingerpaint on someone
27. be able to flip a pancake without it falling apart in mid flip
28. have my own barbara walters special
29. ride in a gondola in venice
30. meet a boy who truly understands the important cinematic achievement that was dirty dancing
31. have my skin stop being so damn dry
32. cliff dive
33. dance with my father
34. stand in the sistine chapel
35. party in new orleans
36. see the northern lights
37. be in a play directed by kern again
38. go to australia
39. get my ph.d. and insist that people call me doctor
40. be interviewed for a documentary about something
41. learn to throw pots
42. have an herb garden that doesn't die
43. remember the name of that echoing trumpet song stefania played for my venetian music history class. that song was really fuckin' cool.
44. see the pietá
45. see the david
46. be able to fishtail braid my own hair
47. smoke a good cigar
48. pay off my student loans
49. learn a slavic language, at least passably
50. meet my brother





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