Tuesday, August 09, 2005

15 OUT OF 50 THINGS I DID IN THE YEAR 2002

15 OUT OF 50 THINGS I DID IN THE YEAR 2002 (setting goals a little lower than the 100 things in 2001)
1. Travel outside the United States
Dec 13: Shanghai, China for 11 day visit
2. Get a manicure
3. Get a new state ID so it doesn't say "Under 21" in big red letters
July 19: Got a NJ driver's licence.
4. Take a bubble bath
July 26: took a bubble bath at B's house.
5. Take ballroom dancing lessons
6. Dance in the rain
7. Get Columbia University wear before I graduate
April 14: Bought a COLUMBIA hoodie sweatshirt.
8. Ignore TV for a month
9. Attend a Broadway show
10. Weigh 130lbs.
11. Call Joann (international phone call)
12. Wear my retainers every night for a month
13. Fix up one of my single friends with a decent boy
14. Learn to use a manual camera
Dec 9: Borrowed Brian's Minolta camera
15. Take martial art lessons
16. Run/Walk/Jog five miles without stopping
17. Make a home-made gift
August: Made rear-view mirror fish-shaped ornaments out of colorful clay.
18. Bake somethingSeptember 1: Baked a lemon-flavored 13" cake with vanilla icing for B.
19. Throw a party
November 2: Mr and Mrs. Rowles came over for dinner (sorta dinner party, right?)
20. Learn to drive
July 15: got my driver's licence! I passed!
21. Go to the beach at least ten times this summer
August 8: Been to the beach six times so far.
22. Spend one day absolutely alone, just to be with myself (and not because of homework!)
23. Take two days off to body-clean (i.e. water, lemon, and not much else)
24. Get second piercings in my ears
25. Get a tattoo (..or maybe not..)
26. Go ice skating
27. Play an intramural sport
28. Get Usual Suspects DVD
29. Attend a basketball game
30. Learn a new language
31. Go barefoot all day
32. Get a TV
January 12: Brian brought his TV to my apartment.
33. And an MP3 player/discman
June: Brian gave me a discman
34. Write a poem
35. Write a love letter
36. Send it
37. Swim in the ocean
June 12: swimming in 60 degree weather in the ocean (with a wetsuit).
38. Finish a cross-stitch piece I've started
39. Spend an entire day in the sun
40. Read Who's Afraid of Schrodinger's Cat: An A-to-Z Guide to All the New Science Ideas You Need to Keep up with the New Thinking by Ian N. Marshall, Danah Zohar and F. David Peat
41. Learn to rollerblade
42. Scuba dive
43. Parasail
44. Spend 24 hours in bed (dont think nasty thoughts, you pervert. I mean, to recuperate..)
45. Share a secret (my own) with someone
46. Write my grandma a note. Entirely in Chinese.
47. Get a pet cat
September 21: Adopted a 9 month old, gray tiger male cat. Named his Poseidon.
48. Volunteer at an animal shelter
49. Update my photo album
September 23: I did it!
50. Make it into graduate school
March 9: Made it into Rutgers University, Boston University-Woods Hole, SUNY Stony Brook, and University of Rhode Island

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