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  • Have a piece of writing published.
  • Get a white-ink tattoo.
  • Make my own kombucha.
  • Learn a martial art for some time.
  • Become fluent in the French language.
  • Build and live in a treehouse.
  • Run or bike in a marathon.
  • Grow my own vegetable garden.
  • Have phenomenal sex.
  • Participate in Outward Bound.
  • Learn to speak Swedish.
  • Live in Sweden for a year.
  • Become a program leader at Sandy River Outdoor School.
  • Meet Martin Scorsese.
  • Make a quilt.
  • Finish writing in one whole journal.
  • Go on a backpacking trip.
  • Attend a church service.
  • Climb a mountain (even if it's just a small one).
  • Host a potluck.
  • See every film in Roger Ebert's "Great Movies".
  • Write a personal top 10 list for the Criterion Collection website.
  • Graduate from high school.
  • Graduate from college.
  • Drink an Irish coffee.
  • Ride home on the subway.
  • Participate in Ramadan.
  • See an episode of The Colbert Report live.
  • See an episode of The Daily Show live.
  • See an episode of Saturday Night Live (live).
  • Live in a different country.
  • Live in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  • Live in Alaska.
  • Live in New York.
  • Join the Peace Corps.
  • Get my nursing license.
  • Take a tour of the White House.
  • Go to coffee with a complete stranger.
  • Spend an entire day movie hopping.
  • Have great sex on New Year's Eve.
  • Go to the funeral of someone I don't know.
  • Adopt a Welsh Corgie.
  • Be enrolled in New York University.
  • Get married (at least to know what it's like).
  • Get divorced (at least to know what it's like).
  • Have a child.
  • See the Taj Mahal.
  • See the pyramids of Egypt.
  • Jump into the ocean with my clothes on.
  • Go on a trip without telling anyone.
  • Determine--with some measure of legitimacy and seriousness--in what direction my life is best suited to take, and which direction will prove the most satisfying, psychologically and spiritually; then take the necessary measures to satisfy the conditions of this conclusion.
  • Choose someone out of a public crowd and follow them.
  • Learn to speak Arabic.
  • Go to the Academy Awards.
  • See the Aurora Borealis.
  • Take a roadtrip through the Yukon territory.
  • Pair down to only the complete essentials.
  • Walk the entire Pacific Crest Trail.
  • Work as a waitress.
  • Write a good short story.
  • Write a novella.
  • Travel to Ireland.
  • Travel to New Zealand.
  • Travel to Africa.
  • Travel to India.
  • Travel to Vietnam.
  • Travel to Thailand.
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