- live in an apartment either by myself or with one other person
- build a treehouse (a super elaborate one, maybe?)
- travel
- India
- Amsterdam
- Japan
- Russia
- Thailand
- Denmark
- Germany
- Ireland
- England
- South America
- design/decorate my own home
- live in Oregon for at least a year
- significantly improve my snowboarding, being able to turn in back into a fun leisurely activity instead of a mental-physical battle with myself anymore
- relearn how to play guitar
- become a better bass player
- learn how to record music
- learn how to use auto-tune...you never know what this could come in handy for
- get my bartender's license
- learn how to properly shoot a gun, progressing on to a sniper even...
- be a guerilla artist
- improve my cooking
- appreciate simplicity
- cultivate my own "lettuce"
- grow my own food and make a great meal out of it
- live a life of a monk, but not necessarily commit my life to becoming one forever
- have someone reference me as an important source regarding something; anything really
- talk to Kyle again, preferably making friendly terms with him again as promised; enough to fill each other in on our lives and how much we've changed and matured and then for us to be able to appreciate this about each other despite whatever sever differences may have come about
- own my own plane
- graduate New York University and get a picture of Derya and I in our tacky purple graduation robes with our dads under the Washington Square Arch (tacky, I know - but very necessary)
- own and/or find a quaint 24 hour coffee shop with comfy chairs, lots of books to lend/borrow, and free wifi
- be 115-120 lbs and maintain it
- be able to know about a particular topic enough to become a decent critic of it
- hold a steady job that could provide for my entire family (if I had to)
- buy a Burberry coat
- refurbish a vintage white Mustang
- see the Aurora Borealis
- take a coast-to-coast roadtrip with friends
- take an interest in photography
- write something that I actually take pride in
- speak French fluently
- force myself to be ambidextrous
- remain silent for at least 48 hours
- improve my cursive
- own fine art
- make some bold, rash, possibly idiotic decision that will impact the rest of my life in some way
- write an entire dissertation on something interesting
- continue learning and progressing so much for myself within my life at the ridiculous rate that this has been happening at so far
- be able to have someone - as many people as possible - learn from something about me, hopefully in a good light
- become a copyright/property rights lawyer that actually has a say in important things, maybe?
- be able to encounter a point in my life where I could tell my parents everything about myself in it's entirety, and for them to lovingly accept it and appreciate how it has developed me as a person
- marry someone who I actually believe is perfect for me that I could legitimately, whole-heartedly love forever
- kill all 200 pigeons ie. "Flying Rats" of Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV
- be able to look great with grey hair
- own a loyal canine companion
- legitimately enjoy celebrating Halloween
dec 29 2009 ∞
nov 7 2010 +