- graduate from college
- Brevard Community College, Honors Graduate (May 2009)
- keep in mind that I might die sooner than expected
- fall in love
- November 2008
- run the track at Olympia
- recite Cicero in the Roman Forum
- June 2009
- see the sunrise from the ruins at Delphi
- spend a day in a ruined city and never forget it
- June 2009
- Ostia Antica
- Pompeii
- June 2009
- spend a day at a concentration camp and never forget it
- live until August 24, 2079, and spend it in Pompeii
- climb Mt. Vesuvius
- explore Mt. Taygetos
- learn to speak a foreign language (and use it!)
- ride a camel to see the Pyramids
- see the Northern Lights
- explore Angkor Wat
- see an opera
- Tosca. Lyric Opera House. January 2010.
- hear a world-class orchestra
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Ravinia. August 2009.
- take ballroom dancing lessons
- be the last one off the dance floor
- Marine Corps Birthday Ball. November 2009.
- bake bread from scratch
- confront my fear of the ocean and learn to scuba dive
- see the Vienna Boys Choir perform
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra. November 2010.
- attend the military ball in Vienna
- stargaze somewhere I can actually see stars
- donate blood regularly
- live a life that merits an autobiography
- participate in a mudrun
- Dirty Girl 5k Mudrun. 30 June 2012.
- skydive, even if only indoors
- own a room with a view
- live debt free
- be unconditionally accepting of myself
- learn something new everyday
- read fifty books a year
- visit the New Seven Wonders
- learn to identify constellations
- stand before the Trevi Fountain and promise to return
- June 2009.
- travel to Antarctica
- swim in the Phosphorescent Bay
- pay my respects at the Normandy American Cemetery
- stomp grapes
- stand on a glacier
- climb the Great Pyramid and try not to throw up from vertigo
- take part in the Nemean Games re-enactment
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