As promised, I made a list of 101 things I want to do in the next 1001 days. You can examine it thoroughly here. Also it now has a permanent home up in the top nav bar on this site, (where the "About" page is). Some of the stuff is super-easy, like:
No. 88: Go to the beach
...but some of it is super-hard, like:
No. 93: Do 100 push-ups
Most of it, though, is just middle-of-the-road, been-meaning-to-do-forever, but just-haven't-gotten-around-to-it type stuff, like
No. 61: Find the perfect black shift dress
No. 30: Be vegan for one week
No. 28: Visit family and friends in the Bay Area
No. 1: Take a ballet workshop in January
I will be updating y'all on my progress on The List, more for my benefit, but if you don't hear an update in a while feel free to chastise me. Motivation is key, eh? Otherwise I'll just have to bribe myself. So hop to it!
I want to do this!
ReplyDeleteYou can! You can even have the snazzy badge. :)
ReplyDeleteI've got all your NYC request sorted. Here are the following numbers: 16, 19, 31, 51 55, 60, 77
ReplyDelete16 - DONE
19 - have you ever been in a roller-coaster? or seen a rat infested dark tunnel? CHECK!
31-How about in India - I've been trying to plan this. 2012 looks promising.
51- not sure about that.
55- you are so classy, i love it!
60- you can do it. bikram!
77 - i've been to a few. I was at Astraea (http://www.astraeafoundation.org/)
on friday eve - you would have loved it...not a lecture...just lesbian writers reading their work.
I started a feminist book club recently with a friend!
ReplyDeleteIf you need help planning a menu for vegan week, let me know.
Also, if you come to DC, there are about a gazillion fun & free things to do. Just saying... :D
Writer: Holy cow, that IS the best comment ever! You win the Unicorn Award for Awesomeness this week. ^_^
ReplyDelete16 - yay! See you in a few weeks...
19 - roller-coasters are terrifying. Rats I'm ok with I guess... ever seen El Norte?
31 - Yayayayay yes! Once I'm done with grad school.
51 - Fair enough. My most recent excursion was to Ethiopian here in PDX.
55 - Ha! Class, schmass.
60 - I'm on board!
77 - Sounds fantabulous! I think that would satisfy my requirement - smart people talking, me listening.
Deena: Oooh do tell me how this book club thing works. It's the mechanics that befuddle me. Is it like, a chapter per week, then discuss and snack, or what? And, what are you reading?
ReplyDeleteI will definitely need help with vegan menu planning. I am over-reliant on cheese, as we all know, and less-than-willing to replace it with soy cheese. I'd rather be cheeseless. Dunno why, but there it is.
AND! I am hoping to make a foray to DC next summer, we shall see!
Hi Sarah!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!!
I really love your list, it's fresh and humorous.
I'm so glad you're joining us. One of my challenges was to take my daughter to a dance class. Funnily, I took her a ballet class today (right around the time you were sending me your link) :-)
I wish you every success and I'll add you to my 101ers blogroll and let the others know in my next update.
If your friend Cello decides to start up, please feel free to pass on my details.
Yeah, vegan cheese is mostly gross. It's also probably better to plan for meals without cheese-like substances so you don't decide you're missing it.
ReplyDeleteAs for book club--a friend and I picked a book we were both interested in that was easily accessible in multiple copies from the local library system. We then picked a day and time and emailed people we thought would be interested. We got a headcount a few days before the set date and met up for dinner and book chat. It went pretty well; I can provide more specifics if you'd like.
Mario Batali has a recipe he calls Basic Tomato Sauce:
ReplyDeleteMince a medium-sized onion and soften in olive oil, pan covered over low heat, for a few minutes. Meanwhile:
Thinly slice one garlic clove; peel and grate one carrot.
Add the garlic to the pan, take the cover off, and wait about 60 seconds; add the grated carrot.
Open two 28-ounce cans of peeled plum tomatoes. (I like Muir Glen because the cans have a non-reactive lining.) Add the tomatoes (and their liquid) to the pan; if you have some thyme sprigs, put them in and bury them below the surface.
Cook uncovered over low heat about 30 minutes. Fish out the thyme sprigs and you're done, unless you want to puree the sauce through a hand food mill or with a processor to get a smoother consistency.
This stuff is pretty good by itself as a sauce for pasta, but its real greatness is as an ingredient in beans, lentils, baked eggplant, or whatever else needs some help in the flavor and/or appearance departments. I freeze the recipe amount (of course you can scale it up, though down gets tricky) in two batches; you can thaw it and refreeze what you don't need, no problem. How useful is it? I buy the canned tomatoes by the case.
That was in aid of No. 30. For No. 18: the unspoken but important rule I absorbed growing up in Manhattan was DO NOT MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH ANYONE.
ReplyDeleteWhen you do No. 28, come over and I'll demonstrate No. 27.
Hi sarsm, thank you for the badge and the helping hand! Just one more step toward the goal of 101 101ers. :)
ReplyDeleteJohn- mmm pasta sauuuce. I love marinara. I would eat pasta with marinara and (cheese redacted) every day if I could. Done aaaand done for 28/27. Is the eye contact rule for everywhere, or just the subway? I haven't had any eye contact issues in my ventures, but I don't stray far from the beaten path while there.
Is the eye contact rule for everywhere, or just the subway?
ReplyDeleteI haven't lived in New York since 1971 and on my last couple of visits I realized I've really lost my big town chops, so I'm just coasting on deep memory here. But the no-eye-contact rule--which I think is still considered "best practices"--was for the subway, where you're in an enclosed space with people in various stages of intoxication, aggressiveness, grumpiness, anxiety, fatigue, and suspicion. To maintain awareness for your own security while not challenging theirs, you manage to check outfits, body language, etc. without getting caught looking--if you don't have anything to read or a friend to chat with, you look down at the floor or up at the cockroach-poison ads.
There's a world of implication in the phrase "caught looking," isn't there? Some of this was explored by the sociologist Erving Goffman in a book called "Relations in Public."
I am working through mine, though the list itself (and the start date) got disappeared when I had to replace the hard drive of my laptop.
ReplyDeleteThis is the greatest idea, and I am having a blast with mine (though there are things I know I won't complete).
Good luck! Your list looks great!
the eye contact thing is called civic inattention. :) social sciences <3
ReplyDeleteas far as the yay area, yes, and come have beach chai with me when you do.
i really like 17 and 87, a lot. might steal them.
re: going back to school. what is your discipline?