October 9, 2009 - July 6, 2012

• Untried: 68
• Failed: 1
• In progress: 27
• ✔ Completed: 6

Education

• Go to every class, every day for one week twenty different times [1/20]
  • 10/11-10/16/09
• Finish first semester with a 3.7+ GPA
• Study abroad for one semester
• Understand three French movies the first time without subtitles [0/3]
• Earn a Comp. Lit. major with departmental honors
• Be on the Dean’s list for two semesters [0/2]
• Graduate from IU with distinction
• Be hired as an RA for 2010
• Earn a minor in Theater
• Earn a minor of French

Work/Career

• ✔ Procure an alternative to working at Read
• Get a summer internship for a publishing company

Wellness

• Go for one week without any caffeine five times [2/5]
• Take a sports/recreational class for three semesters [1/3]
• Practice simple meditation for fifteen minutes twice a week for one month [0/8]
• Practice walking meditation ten times [0/10]
• Take a class in Transcendental Meditation
• Try six different types of meditation [0/6]
• Eat breakfast every day for one month [1/30]
  • 11/30/09 - breakfast bar & water
  • 12/02/09 - breakfast bar & diet coke
  • 12/05/09 - scrambled eggs & hot chocolate

Creativity

• Write a haiku/day for one month [0/30]
• Publish four poems [0/4]
• Win a creative writing contest
• Publish two short stories [0/2]
• Complete 10/10/10 [0/100]
• Complete NaNoWriMo one year (not necessarily in November)
• Write thirty short stories [1/30]
  • Whisper
• Write fifty poems [5/50]
  • Starting at XVIII
  • Wind
• Keep a 3-sentence journal regularly for at least three months [0/3]
• Learn to make 5 origami things [1/5]
• Learn to make something that can be given as a gift
• Do a painting
• Get Emerald & Ebony to 100 pages [17/100]
• Memorize 5 poems [0/5]
• Make a word challenge for poems/short stories and complete it

Travel/New Experience

• Get a real kiss on New Year’s
• Go on five road trips [0/5]
• Try three clothing styles that I’m not exactly sure about [0/3]
• Try four new eyeshadow techniques [2/4]
• Visit 5 new states [0/5]
• Lose 25 pounds [0/25]
• Go ice skating twice [0/2]
• ✔ Take a belly dancing class
• ✔ Order something other than what I usually order three times [3/3]
• Go to a rally in support of a cause I love
• Go to the theater/opera/ballet three times [1/3]
• Visit a monastery
• Visit a non-Christian place of worship
• Visit five new places of worship [0/5]
• Try 10 new restaurants [3/10]
• Try 3 new types of cuisine [0/3]
• Sleep under the stars with no tent

Personal

• Go for ten days without losing anything [2/10]
• Do something fun on a Friday night that does not involve movies ten times [2/10]
• Dye my hair an unexpected color three times [0/3]
• Wear a creative Halloween costume twice [0/2]
• Really talk to twelve new people [3/12]
  • Zak
  • J.C.
  • Kara
• Discover 12 new musicians that I like [2/12]
  • Thao
  • Laura Marling
• Get contacts
• Grow my hair all the way out to a bob
• Build a fort and play in it five times [2/5]
• Be completely carefree for a day ten times [0/10]
• Compliment myself everyday for twenty days [0/20]
• Get pictures taken professionally
• Learn how to really swim
• Learn how to roller-skate
• Win 5 games of Euchre [0/5]
• Audition for a play
• Get a potted plant and keep it alive for a month
• Go without electricity for a day
• Do karaoke
• Make a bucket list
• Wear a flower in my hair
• Memorize 3 funny kid-friendly jokes [2/3]
• Do something embarrassing but fun 5 times [0/5]
• Make a full dinner for someone I love
• ✔ Have a wrestling match
• Make a snowman army
• Save $1,000 for after graduation
• Don’t use my cell phone for one day
• Decorate a room to personal satisfaction
• Create/participate in an active D&D campaign for three months [0/3]
• Clean my room once a week for a month [0/4]
• Track my spending every day for a month [0/30]

Relationships

• ✔ Go on a real date five times [5/5]
• ✔ Be asked on a date three times [3/3]
• Accept criticism without being hurt fifteen times [1/15]
• Send five personal letters [0/5]
• Send out at least 30 birthday cards in one year [0/30]
• Send out at least 10 Christmas cards each year [0/3]
• Meet someone who’s been in a movie
• Make 4 new friends [0/4]
• Fall in love romantically
• Fill a notebook with quotes I love from people on B5
• Have a fancy dress tea party twice [0/2]

Giving Back

• Do something nice for a stranger ten times [0/10]
• Put a recycling bin somewhere
• Make sandwiches for homeless people and give them to them
• Give away 10 condoms [0/10]
• Spend 40 hours doing volunteer work [0/40]

List Related

• Begin/keep up with a 101 in 1001 LiveJournal
  • Write one goal/week on a post-it note and put it somewhere I can see it to focus on it [2/100]
• Donate $1 to Make-A-Wish for each item not completed [0/?]