101 Things: Progress-Type Things
My original list lives at mission101 in this post.
October 2005
::Register to vote
::Meet someone I originally met online (Steph Warren)
November 2005
::Apply to the Bosnia Project
::Play Trivial Pursuit with Dad and win
::Make s'mores with some sort of fire source (candle at Aroma's)
::Journal every day for a month
::Win NaNoWriMo
December 2005
::Make a tangible version of this list
::Actually buy something from Parlett's (card for Sarah)
::Avoid saying "freaking" for an entire day
::Make it through a children's book in Spanish with some idea of what's going on (Jorge Curioso)
::Eat a fruit I have never eaten before
::Eat a vegetable I have never eaten before
::Eat dinner at an ethnic restaurant of a "new" (to me) culture (Bajan)
::Fly a kite
January 2006
::Learn to spin
::Cook an entire meal for my family
::Finish and wear Rogue (a sweater)
::Take the Amtrak somewhere (Greensboro -> DC)
::Visit a friend at another school (Sarah at Georgetown)
::Make the Dean's List
February 2006
::Get permission to practice on the WPC organ
::Treat someone to a meal (Alison)
March 2006
::Take a friend to church/WesFel who wouldn't normally go (Joan)
::Go to a "real" (nonclassical) concert (Sarah Harmer, "I'm a Mountain" tour)
April 2006
::Send in a PostSecret
::Go to someone else's Christian-but-not-Presbyterian church (First Baptist)
::Win/receive a scholarship/grant (Monroe freshman research)
::Go to a protest/rally (Save Darfur)
May 2006
::Restart MarioWorld and get to a new level
::Reread The Catcher in the Rye
::Comment on a blog I tend to lurk (3hive)
June 2006
::Get bank account up to $5,000
July 2006
::Subscribe to a magazine for at least a year (Galatea's Pants)
::Read the His Dark Materials trilogy
::Finish a cross-stitch project (bookmark from Monticello)
August 2006
::Have tea at the O Henry
::Write a completely unprovoked letter to Grandma and Nana
::Take a class in the Wren Building (Religion 345)
September 2006
::Vote (by absentee ballot, Nov. 2006 General Election)
::Read a book written before 1500 (Procopius's The Secret History)
October 2006
::Write a zine (16 1/8th pages about a STAND die-in)
November 2006
::Successfully host a swap ("Going Postal" CD Swap)
::Play Scrabble with Mom and Dad and win (beat Grandma too!)
::Write and send a thank-you letter to two old teachers (I got three: Mrs. Carroll, Ms. Zavacky, and Mrs. Dellinger!)
December 2006
::See an orchestra perform something by either Stravinsky or Tchaikovsky (Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite at the WMSO concert)
::Go Christmas carolling (at Sentara w/ CKI kids)
::Track my period for a year
::Catch a book and send a book through BookCrossing
January 2007
::Declare a major (mailed in my Math declaration!)
::Go abroad (Hungary seems far enough...)
February 2007
::Give someone flowers
::Make banana bread
::Spend an entire non-sick day in my pajamas
March 2007
::Read a book by Philip Roth
::Go back to Espoo
::Have a friend out to visit me at school (I'm counting my dad coming to Budapest since the point was to show someone where I was living and learning)
::Read The Unbearable Lightness of Being
April 2007
::Stay offline for a whole week
June 2007
::Learn to wear make-up
July 2007
::Learn to machine sew
::Learn the real "The Entertainer" and play it for Granddaddy
October 2007
::Go to a new state
November 2007
::Learn three new card games (Euchre, Capitalism, Kings in the Corners)
December 2007
::Treat someone I don't know to a meal
January 2008
::Read a book by Robertson Davies
::Write a letter to an author to thank him/her for writing a book (Ian Stewart re. LtaYM)
::Be able to recite all of the presidents in order
::Write a letter to Sandra Day O'Connor
::Colour every picture in a colouring book
::Read a book by Graham Greene
::Read a book by Ayn Rand
::Write a sestina
::Donate something to the public library
::Make and keep a New Year's Resolution that's not on this list
February 2008
::View an eclipse
March 2008
::Donate money to the NC Governor's School Alumni Association
::See at least three films at a film festival (Paris, je t'aime; Mondovino; and Les Choristes at Tournées)
The Waiting List
(personal--there's always got to be a secret!)
Reread all 7 Narnia books
Hike some part of the Appalachian Trail
Submit a design to Knitty
Learn enough crochet to make a blanket for Crochet for Kids
Go to a non-Christian religious observance
Fast for a weekend
Knit something with the Durrow cable from girlfromauntie.com
Play either the Revolutionary Etude or the Fantasie completely from memory (mistakes allowed)
Either read or get rid of all unread, owned-by-me books
Go to a new province
Read Terre des Hommes and Pilote de Guerre in French
Write 1001 Haiku (doesn't have to be one a day, just 1001 total)
Win 100 Days Creative
Eat only cereal, fruit, and vegetables for a week
Knit something for Dad that he will actually wear
See all the AFI Top 100 Movies I haven't seen
Learn the names of everyone in my building
Read 100 books from BookLust, including 50 of the "100 Good Books, Decade By Decade"
Learn everything in the First Organ Book
Get a poster from an art museum in Washington, DC
Read 17 books of the Bible I've never read straight through before
Work on a Habitat for Humanity house
Updated as Necessary and Backdated Like Nobody's Business.
October 2005
::Register to vote
::Meet someone I originally met online (Steph Warren)
November 2005
::Apply to the Bosnia Project
::Play Trivial Pursuit with Dad and win
::Make s'mores with some sort of fire source (candle at Aroma's)
::Journal every day for a month
::Win NaNoWriMo
December 2005
::Make a tangible version of this list
::Actually buy something from Parlett's (card for Sarah)
::Avoid saying "freaking" for an entire day
::Make it through a children's book in Spanish with some idea of what's going on (Jorge Curioso)
::Eat a fruit I have never eaten before
::Eat a vegetable I have never eaten before
::Eat dinner at an ethnic restaurant of a "new" (to me) culture (Bajan)
::Fly a kite
January 2006
::Learn to spin
::Cook an entire meal for my family
::Finish and wear Rogue (a sweater)
::Take the Amtrak somewhere (Greensboro -> DC)
::Visit a friend at another school (Sarah at Georgetown)
::Make the Dean's List
February 2006
::Get permission to practice on the WPC organ
::Treat someone to a meal (Alison)
March 2006
::Take a friend to church/WesFel who wouldn't normally go (Joan)
::Go to a "real" (nonclassical) concert (Sarah Harmer, "I'm a Mountain" tour)
April 2006
::Send in a PostSecret
::Go to someone else's Christian-but-not-Presbyterian church (First Baptist)
::Win/receive a scholarship/grant (Monroe freshman research)
::Go to a protest/rally (Save Darfur)
May 2006
::Restart MarioWorld and get to a new level
::Reread The Catcher in the Rye
::Comment on a blog I tend to lurk (3hive)
June 2006
::Get bank account up to $5,000
July 2006
::Subscribe to a magazine for at least a year (Galatea's Pants)
::Read the His Dark Materials trilogy
::Finish a cross-stitch project (bookmark from Monticello)
August 2006
::Have tea at the O Henry
::Write a completely unprovoked letter to Grandma and Nana
::Take a class in the Wren Building (Religion 345)
September 2006
::Vote (by absentee ballot, Nov. 2006 General Election)
::Read a book written before 1500 (Procopius's The Secret History)
October 2006
::Write a zine (16 1/8th pages about a STAND die-in)
November 2006
::Successfully host a swap ("Going Postal" CD Swap)
::Play Scrabble with Mom and Dad and win (beat Grandma too!)
::Write and send a thank-you letter to two old teachers (I got three: Mrs. Carroll, Ms. Zavacky, and Mrs. Dellinger!)
December 2006
::See an orchestra perform something by either Stravinsky or Tchaikovsky (Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite at the WMSO concert)
::Go Christmas carolling (at Sentara w/ CKI kids)
::Track my period for a year
::Catch a book and send a book through BookCrossing
January 2007
::Declare a major (mailed in my Math declaration!)
::Go abroad (Hungary seems far enough...)
February 2007
::Give someone flowers
::Make banana bread
::Spend an entire non-sick day in my pajamas
March 2007
::Read a book by Philip Roth
::Go back to Espoo
::Have a friend out to visit me at school (I'm counting my dad coming to Budapest since the point was to show someone where I was living and learning)
::Read The Unbearable Lightness of Being
April 2007
::Stay offline for a whole week
June 2007
::Learn to wear make-up
July 2007
::Learn to machine sew
::Learn the real "The Entertainer" and play it for Granddaddy
October 2007
::Go to a new state
November 2007
::Learn three new card games (Euchre, Capitalism, Kings in the Corners)
December 2007
::Treat someone I don't know to a meal
January 2008
::Read a book by Robertson Davies
::Write a letter to an author to thank him/her for writing a book (Ian Stewart re. LtaYM)
::Be able to recite all of the presidents in order
::Write a letter to Sandra Day O'Connor
::Colour every picture in a colouring book
::Read a book by Graham Greene
::Read a book by Ayn Rand
::Write a sestina
::Donate something to the public library
::Make and keep a New Year's Resolution that's not on this list
February 2008
::View an eclipse
March 2008
::Donate money to the NC Governor's School Alumni Association
::See at least three films at a film festival (Paris, je t'aime; Mondovino; and Les Choristes at Tournées)
The Waiting List
(personal--there's always got to be a secret!)
Reread all 7 Narnia books
Hike some part of the Appalachian Trail
Submit a design to Knitty
Learn enough crochet to make a blanket for Crochet for Kids
Go to a non-Christian religious observance
Fast for a weekend
Knit something with the Durrow cable from girlfromauntie.com
Play either the Revolutionary Etude or the Fantasie completely from memory (mistakes allowed)
Either read or get rid of all unread, owned-by-me books
Go to a new province
Read Terre des Hommes and Pilote de Guerre in French
Write 1001 Haiku (doesn't have to be one a day, just 1001 total)
Win 100 Days Creative
Eat only cereal, fruit, and vegetables for a week
Knit something for Dad that he will actually wear
See all the AFI Top 100 Movies I haven't seen
Learn the names of everyone in my building
Read 100 books from BookLust, including 50 of the "100 Good Books, Decade By Decade"
Learn everything in the First Organ Book
Get a poster from an art museum in Washington, DC
Read 17 books of the Bible I've never read straight through before
Work on a Habitat for Humanity house
Updated as Necessary and Backdated Like Nobody's Business.