101 things to do in 1001 days
deadline: friday, december 11, 2009
italics; completed
strikeout; abandoned for lack of interest
1 travel to greece
2 start an art journal 10/10/07
3 sign my first lease 7/18/08
4 rescue a golden retriever
5 sit down to write every day 9-12/09
6 publish a poem in a major journal 1/09 (forthcoming fall 2009)
7 buy a chloe dress
8 write and record a song
9 visit interlochen for collage
10 learn to identify ten native butterfly species
11 visit drew in california 4/09
12 learn how to water-ski
13 bake and ice a cake
14 visit disneyworld with friends 4/08
15 subscribe to three more lit reviews 12/09
16 design & sew my own dress
17 graduate with at least a 3.7 2/09 (didn't; did graduate magna cum laude though!)
18 buy and use a nice camera 8/07
19 run a 5k
20 take a studio art class
21 go see an opera 4/08
22 give up soda for good 5/07
23 fly first class
24 travel to sweden
25 start a retirement fund
30 send a postcard to postsecret
31 volunteer for a political campaign
32 bake cupcakes from scratch
34 throw a dinner party 7/4/07
35 give blood
36 go to a belle & sebastian show in scotland
37 make a loose change can 2/28/09
38 go ice-skating outdoors 12/12/07
39 get cpr & first-aid certified
40 play doubles tennis
41 go barhopping in chicago 7/09
42 travel to brazil
43 buy a lottery ticket 6/5/07
44 watch the godfather trilogy
45 save an entire paycheck 4/09
46 make a list of one hundred books; read them ongoing!
47 get a hot rock massage
48 travel to iceland
49 take a shakespeare class 01-05/08
50 join AAA (got different coverage!)
51 stop biting my nails
52 see a cirque du soleil show
53 go to a cubs game at wrigley field
54 travel to italy
55 take a sailing lesson
56 go to the ballet 4/08
57 learn to fly-fish
58 make my own curry
59 sit through a horror movie without covering my eyes 10/2/07
60 go apple picking in wisconsin
61 have a sleepover with megs 8/24/07
62 take high tea in england 11/07
63 go to a comedy club 8/1/07
64 visit las vegas
65 rasterbate and hang a picture
66 make bread pudding 7/09
67 spend a summer in scotland
68 learn to play the ukelele
69 go to the dentist 6/07
70 tour napa & sonoma wine country
71 bring my bike to school 8/09
72 go to three photobooths in one night
73 make my boyfriend breakfast in bed 10/24/07
74 go to an estate sale
75 finish twenty poems 9/08
76 grow my hair down my back 5-7/07
77 send a package to a friend 8/27/07
78 road trip with kit from jackson to chicago
79 buy a pair of black chucks
80 take more polaroids 10/08 (poladroids!)
81 keep my room clean for a month 6-7/07
82 travel to moscow
83 sell the rest of my old clothes 2/09
84 spend a summer in new york city
85 see the mountain goats live 11/6/09
86 write a novella
87 visit rozeigh, if she'll have me
88 drink only water for a month
89 order big prints of my favorite photos 10/08
90 spend a weekend in montreal
91 stay a week alone in our summer house to write
92 file and organize my new yorkers 8/07
93 learn to ski or snowboard 12/09
94 go tubing 7/4/08
95 go cosmic bowling
96 submit a manuscript to a publisher 3/08
97 apply to grad programs for lit or writing 09-12/08
98 bring a canteen of tea to my fall classes
99 drive the entire california 1
100 read everything by nabokov
101 put $10 in savings for everything i haven't completed.
italics; completed
strikeout; abandoned for lack of interest
1 travel to greece
2 start an art journal 10/10/07
3 sign my first lease 7/18/08
4 rescue a golden retriever
5 sit down to write every day 9-12/09
6 publish a poem in a major journal 1/09 (forthcoming fall 2009)
7 buy a chloe dress
8 write and record a song
9 visit interlochen for collage
10 learn to identify ten native butterfly species
11 visit drew in california 4/09
12 learn how to water-ski
13 bake and ice a cake
14 visit disneyworld with friends 4/08
15 subscribe to three more lit reviews 12/09
16 design & sew my own dress
17 graduate with at least a 3.7 2/09 (didn't; did graduate magna cum laude though!)
18 buy and use a nice camera 8/07
19 run a 5k
20 take a studio art class
21 go see an opera 4/08
22 give up soda for good 5/07
23 fly first class
24 travel to sweden
25 start a retirement fund
30 send a postcard to postsecret
31 volunteer for a political campaign
32 bake cupcakes from scratch
34 throw a dinner party 7/4/07
35 give blood
36 go to a belle & sebastian show in scotland
37 make a loose change can 2/28/09
38 go ice-skating outdoors 12/12/07
39 get cpr & first-aid certified
40 play doubles tennis
41 go barhopping in chicago 7/09
42 travel to brazil
43 buy a lottery ticket 6/5/07
44 watch the godfather trilogy
45 save an entire paycheck 4/09
46 make a list of one hundred books; read them ongoing!
47 get a hot rock massage
48 travel to iceland
49 take a shakespeare class 01-05/08
50 join AAA (got different coverage!)
51 stop biting my nails
52 see a cirque du soleil show
53 go to a cubs game at wrigley field
54 travel to italy
55 take a sailing lesson
56 go to the ballet 4/08
57 learn to fly-fish
58 make my own curry
59 sit through a horror movie without covering my eyes 10/2/07
60 go apple picking in wisconsin
61 have a sleepover with megs 8/24/07
62 take high tea in england 11/07
63 go to a comedy club 8/1/07
64 visit las vegas
65 rasterbate and hang a picture
66 make bread pudding 7/09
67 spend a summer in scotland
68 learn to play the ukelele
69 go to the dentist 6/07
70 tour napa & sonoma wine country
71 bring my bike to school 8/09
72 go to three photobooths in one night
73 make my boyfriend breakfast in bed 10/24/07
74 go to an estate sale
75 finish twenty poems 9/08
76 grow my hair down my back 5-7/07
77 send a package to a friend 8/27/07
78 road trip with kit from jackson to chicago
79 buy a pair of black chucks
80 take more polaroids 10/08 (poladroids!)
81 keep my room clean for a month 6-7/07
82 travel to moscow
83 sell the rest of my old clothes 2/09
84 spend a summer in new york city
85 see the mountain goats live 11/6/09
86 write a novella
87 visit rozeigh, if she'll have me
88 drink only water for a month
89 order big prints of my favorite photos 10/08
90 spend a weekend in montreal
91 stay a week alone in our summer house to write
92 file and organize my new yorkers 8/07
93 learn to ski or snowboard 12/09
94 go tubing 7/4/08
95 go cosmic bowling
96 submit a manuscript to a publisher 3/08
97 apply to grad programs for lit or writing 09-12/08
98 bring a canteen of tea to my fall classes
99 drive the entire california 1
100 read everything by nabokov
101 put $10 in savings for everything i haven't completed.