1. Take a ballet workshop in January (The Evolution of Dance: Part One)
2. Get half (or more) of my tuition paid for by scholarships
3. Acquire my fancy-pants master’s degree (Educational Elite)
4. Get a six-pack. Even for just a day, or a week or something.
5. Do a pull-up
6. Do the front splits
7. Do the side splits
8.
9. Send out one pitch per month for my personal writing
10. Get published for myself (versus for my employer) (related to above. Duh.)
11.
12.
13. Fix my back
14. Fix my knee
15. Visit the UK and take a train ride with my British penpal
16. Make friends in NYC
17. Send a “thinking-of-you” card to everyone I think about for one month
18. Take a tour of the New York Times office
19. Learn to ride the subway in New York
20. Grow my hair out
21. Go on, or make, a scavenger hunt with/for friends
22. Become fashionable (again. Or maybe for the first time… depends on your POV)
23. Learn to accessorize.
25. Wear more red in general.
26. Organize a clothing exchange
27. Make mousse, not pudding
28. Visit family and friends in the Bay Area
29. Do 52 free fun things in and around the various cities I find myself in
30. Be vegan for one week
31. Go on a yoga or meditation retreat
32.
34. Go to Natalie Goldberg's writing workshop
35. Go snowshoeing
36. Go to a snowy cabin, and drink hot toddies and hot chocolate and wear fuzzy boots and hats with earflaps
39. Learn to do proper makeup
40. Learn to do proper hair
41. Put a stereo in the bathroom, so I won’t get bored while doing proper hair and makeup
42. Learn to firedance, and pick up poi again
43. Go on 52 hikes
44. Go to 15 parties that OTHER PEOPLE throw. Stay for longer than two hours without getting completely bored.
45. Find a good primary care physician.
46. Find and organize all my photos, then mat and frame my favorites
47. Do an art showing of the best photos and see if I can sell any prints
48. Visit the feminist bookstore by my house
49. Set up a standing dinner date with a friend(s)
50. Set up a standing coffee date with a friend
51. Go on a tour of various foreign cuisines in PDX and NYC
52. Do a fake-adventure photo shoot
53. Do a real-adventure photo shoot
54. Do a high-fashion/weird-fashion photo shoot
55. Take boudoir photos to immortalize my youth
56.
57. Go out dancing with friends 50 times
58. Organize regular rotating potlucks
59. Organize an iron chef competition
60. Go to yoga once a week
61. Find the perfect black shift dress, wear it to work
62. Save enough money before grad school to emerge from grad school debt-free
63. Go to a party by myself
64. Attend an event that requires formalwear (in formalwear)
65. Find a beautiful cocktail dress, find a place to wear it, then go there
66. Make five new friends
67. Wear every. single. item. in my closet at least once in the next year
68. Wear every single piece of jewelry at least once
69. Write posts on where the weirder stuff came from
70. Get rid of the stuff that makes me cringe
71. Eat at a Grub With Us event in NYC
73. Take an ecdysiast class
74. Take a bollywood class
75. Stand up to the people I know that are jerks
76. Return all personal phone calls received promptly
77. Attend a lecture in NYC
78. Wear nothing black for a week
79. Attend a fancy cocktail party
80. Visit some of my blog readers in person
81. Make a list of things I like doing
82. Make a list of 50 places I want to go/things I want to see
83. Have pictures taken in a photo booth
84. Buy nothing new for 12 months
85. Have a birthday dinner with friends
86. Have a spa day with a friend
87. Carry a notebook with me, write down every idea I have for a month
88. Go to the beach
89. Take a wine-appreciation class
90. Make a list of the 25 classics I want to read, then read them
91. Take a cheese-making class
92. Stay up all night, then watch the sunrise
93. Do 100 push-ups
94. Start a feminist book club
95. Do a weeklong detox diet
96. Do the Bridge-to-10k program
97. Plan a trip to Europe to celebrate graduation
98. Dance in a performance
99. Learn to swim properly
100. Visit all the tourist spots in my city
101. Have five seasonal/quarterly dinner parties
Day zero: November 14, 2011
Day 1001: August 11, 2014
