I was reasonably successful with my last
101 in 1001 list.
Here's part two (mostly new, with some carryover).
deadline: september 17, 2012
italics, completed
1 travel to italy
2 have my poetry manuscript accepted for publication
3 learn how to water-ski
4 crochet a scarf (like forty of them)
5 catch a fish
6 sign up for/attend a yoga class
7 buy a nintendo DS lite
8 travel to greece
9 buy a bike helmet
10 lose and keep off ten pounds
11 continually update my blog once every two weeks
12 read all of anais nin's diary
13 record interviews for my nonfiction book
14 write three chapters of my nonfiction book
15 finish a draft of my nonfiction book
16 travel to iceland
17 fill moleskine #1
18 fill moleskine #2
19 write a short story
20 sell a stack to the used bookstore
21 bake cupcakes from scratch
22 travel to holland
23 go on a picnic
24 organize/mount my headbands
25 subscribe to a print literary journal
26 win a fellowship or get accepted to a phd program uwm here i come!
27 travel to montana
28 buy a car
29 get a tenure-track teaching job
30 go back on birth control
31 dye my hair platinum blonde (just to see)
32 buy a classic handbag
33 make a list of 50 novels & read them
34 see the pacific northwest
35 wash my dishes right after eating every day for a week
36 travel to iceland
37 go back to bread loaf
38 learn how to play a song on my ukelele
39 stop biting my nails
40 write a nonfiction essay
41 write & revise seventy poems by the end of 2010
42 write & revise seventy poems by the end of 2011
43 visit friends in iowa city
44 learn how to play a song on my guitar
45 reopen my savings account; keep at least $500 in it
46 give blood
47 put out two issues of devil's lake
48 buy a bigger dresser
49 make a fire in my norris court fireplace
50 travel to brazil
(more coming)