November 2010
1 post
#74: Watch the whole Doctor Who series
Not really a lot to say here. I watched the show from the re-boot with Christopher Eccelston up through the most recently aired episode. I’ve really enjoyed it and plan to keep doing so. In fact, I liked it so much that I also started watching its spinoff, Torchwood.
82/101 left.
April 2010
2 posts
#7: Visit Amy in Chicago
Jen recently went to Japan in one of the most broad and far-reaching instances of “things that I’m wildly jealous of” in recent history, but due to the way her vacation time worked out, upon returning to the states, she found herself with a couple of days to kill in Chicago before heading home. I have somehow never been to Chicago, despite having been told that I would love it...
#18: Donate blood
I have long considered actually donating blood before. I even attempted to do so a few years back when they had blood drives at my work, but due to tattoos, piercings or medication, they always found a way to disqualify me.
Well apparently, they revised the standards for recent tattoos, so I’m eligible for the first time in my adult life. And that’s good for them, because my blood...
March 2010
3 posts
#50: Get a library card
Another fairly unimpressive goal, but at least through the encouragement of the list, I’m accomplishing the less lustrous things in my life that I’ve put off (in this case) for ten years or more.
I’m at least able to feel somewhat more proud of this one in that I braved gale-force winds and a torrential downpour on my trek to the library in order to fill out the application....
#62: Get dinner at Dragonfly with Jen
It just so happened that the night before leaving to go to Columbus to visit Jen, my boss decided to tell me that due to the success of a few projects I’d been working on, I should reward myself by taking Jen out to a nice dinner. The exact words were “Get an expensive bottle of wine, don’t worry about money, and spend a couple hundred bucks. Bring us the receipt and...
#84: Donate all the clothes I don’t wear to the...
This one is pretty unimpressive, and there’s not much to write about. I loaded up two large trashbags with clothes I don’t wear anymore, and my parents were kind enough to drive them to a donation center so I didn’t have to lug them onto the bus and across town. But, an unimpressive list item is still a list item and I’ll take it. I hope someone enjoys all the...
February 2010
4 posts
#13: Watch Battlestar Galactica
All I’ve been hearing for the past few years from everyone I know is “YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS SHOW EVEN IF YOU DON’T LIKE SCI FI OH MY GOD JUST WATCH IT.” I don’t even have anything against sci-fi, really. I think I just put it off on principle, for the same reason I keep putting off reading anything by David Sedaris. What can I say? I’m genetically predisposed...
#19: Spend a weekend in New York
Now technically, I do concede that I only spent most of a weekend in New York, but I’m going to count it anyway because we were there from first thing Saturday morning until late Sunday night, and enough activities were done to make me feel justified in marking it off.
That being said, I had a fantastic time. Jen and I took the Bolt Bus up bright and early the day before Valentine’s...
#85: Send someone flowers
Somehow in my twenty-nine years, I have never had the opportunity to send a girl flowers. I finally got around to doing that this year, the week before Valentine’s Day. There’s not much of a story to it, so I fear the recap will be a bit boring.
They were supposed to arrive on the 9th, but I received a call from the florist that the blizzard had killed all of the peonies in Ohio,...
#40: See something at Movie Monday @the Troc
Zombieland was a pretty good movie. I’d seen it before, but I can now say with authority that it’s one of those movies that are best viewed in a large group. The entertainment value of a zombie getting its head run over by a car is exponentially increased by a large room full of whooping viewers.
There was a raffle, but alas I did not win. I had my heart set on a copy of Pride and...
January 2010
3 posts
#12: Watch "Sons of Anarchy"
I know that watching two seasons of a basic cable television show is among the loftiest of goals imaginable, but please hold your applause in celebration of this accomplishment until the end.
All I can say is that everything that everyone has been gushing about this show is entirely accurate. It’s goddamn amazing. I have no idea how a show this violent is able to play on basic cable....
#58: Kiss a girl at the stroke of midnight on New...
At least I think, I did. There were no clocks, so we just went by the start of the fireworks and the screams of “WOO” from the street below. I wish I could say it was a little more magical or something, but it was raining, everything was grey, and the smoke from the first firework lingered in the air so stiffly and heavily that all the subsequent fireworks went off behind the cloud...
#16: Eat at Zahav
I’ve been hearing how amazing Zahav is since it opened 2 years ago (I think?), so I have been incredibly interested to see what all the fuss was about. So on New Year’s Eve, when looking for something to do for dinner, this seemed like as good a time as any.
Dinner was split up into 4 courses that seemed more like 10 or so, because rather than the picking one option per course as I...
December 2009
4 posts
#26: Visit Jen in Ohio
Save a quick trip to New Jersey or Delaware or something, I haven’t left Pennsylvania in over 2 years. So, it was only fair that since Jen comes to visit me so much, I return the favor. Able to call in a birthday guilt favor to my parents for some dog sitting, I left for the airport.
Almost immediately upon landing, the festivities started. We checked into the hotel quickly and went...
#70: Go to the Aquarium
I haven’t been to the Camden Aquarium in a really long time, but looking at sharks and turtles and fish never really gets old, so I’ve wanted to go back pretty much since the day after I was there last.
Apparently, the ferry doesn’t run in the winter, so that was a little unfortunate, as the quick trip across the river is always fun for getting in the fish-spotting mood, but...
#66: Mail someone a care package
So for this one, I had the good fortune of having someone that I not only already wanted to mail things to, but who also had the same item on her 101 list to be crossed off at the same time. Since I only get to see Jen about once a month, this seemed like the perfect exchange. Is it horribly corny? You bet. Am I OK with that? Yup.
Contained in the package: A few support trinket things from...
#30: Break down and finally get a digital camera
It’s not a particularly lofty goal in and of itself, but when making the list, I figured it would be pretty handy in documenting the more impressive milestones. It kind of fell into my lap, too. My parents got it for my birthday, but encouraged me to open it early so that I could use it over the next (busy) month, particularly on my actual birthday when I will be out of town, attempting to...
November 2009
2 posts
#51: Go to my 10 year high school reunion and be...
This one’s pretty self-explanatory. No fights were picked, and I even successfully pulled off pretending to be Meghan’s husband to deflect the advances of a far, far fallen ex-classmate. I still don’t know that it was worth $45, but it happened and now it’s over.
First item crossed off. 100 to go. Hurray me. Also, don’t tell anyone, but I’m kind of drunk....
Jon's 101 Things in 1001 Days
Well here we go. Everyone else is doing it, so why shouldn’t I, right? When the internet tells me to jump off a bridge, who am I to ask why?
This list is officially finished on Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. 1001 days will be up on Tuesday, August 21, 2012. That’s a little less than 3 years to do all kinds of shit. Some of these things are pretty simple, others are a pretty big fucking...