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 deal. Hopefully the smaller ones can keep me from getting too bored with it by giving me something to cross off now and then.
So with that, away we go.
- Take a trip out of the country
- Get my driver’s license
- Get Zooey’s leaky junk fixed
- Finish the tattoo on my right arm
- Buy a house
- Get a cat or two
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Visit Amy in Chicago - Go to the Rodin museum
- See the Liberty Bell
- Gain a cursory understanding of a foreign language
- Read “Confederacy of Dunces”
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Watch “Sons of Anarchy” -
Watch “Battlestar Galactica” so people will stop nagging me - Eat at Buddakan
- Eat at Distrito
Eat at Zahav- Write at least 100 pages
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Donate blood Spend a weekend in New York- Set foot in all 48 contiguous states (25/48)
- Take a cooking class
- Go to Fell’s Planetarium again
- Go camping with the dogs
- Date someone for more than 6 months
- Send 50 people a Christmas card
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Visit Jen in Ohio - Visit Kyle in Hoboken
- Visit Adam in whichever city he’s living in
- Build a model plane
Break down and finally get a digital camera- Go to Eastern State Penitentiary
- Write to my congressman about something
- Take a day trip to see as much of the Smithsonian as I can
- Read 50 books (35/50)
- Take a class at the Fleisher
- Get a harmonica and learn to play it
- Log 1000 volunteer hours at PAWS (324 as of 11/24/10)
- Watch all the movies on the AFI top 100 List (37/100)
- Go to a midnight movie
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See something at Movie Monday @the Troc - Go to a show at The M Room
- Go to a show at The Fire
- See the Orchestra at the Kimmel Center
- Go to a play
- Go to an opera
- Get a flat screen TV
- Get a real recycling bucket and start recycling again
- Take the dogs to go swimming in a lake or the ocean
- See the Empire State Building
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Get a library card -
Go to my 10 year high school reunion and be amicable - Eat one of every type of Tastykake pie in one day
- Take a tour of the Tastykake factory
- Take a tour of the Herr’s factory
- Take a tour of the Sly Fox brewery
- Save up $2,000 for a single vacation
- Go to Ortlieb’s on a night with live music
Kiss a girl at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve- Get a banjo and learn to play it
- See the Grand Canyon
- Don’t watch TV for a whole week
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Get dinner at Dragonfly with Jen - Drive down the 101
- Get ordained as a minister online
- Buy a new jacket that fits properly
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Mail someone a care package - Send 10 people postcards for no particular reason
- Walk across the Ben Franklin Bridge to Camden and back
- Go to the Zoo
Go to the Aquarium- Pick some kind of fruit at a farm/orchard
- Go to Longwood Gardens or the Tyler Arboretum
- Throw someone a surprise party
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Watch the whole Doctor Who series - Cook someone a nice dinner
- Learn how to tango
- Increase the amount that I contribute to my 401k
- Spend a day on some kind of boat
- Have or take part in a scavenger hunt
- Shoot a rifle
- Learn how to cook a good vegetarian meal
- Cook a Thanksgiving dinner
- Learn how to brew my own beer
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Donate all the clothes I don’t wear to the Salvation Army Send someone flowers- Foster a cat
- Get a bicycle
- Learn to ride a motorcycle
- Learn sign language
- Win a trophy or a medal for something
- Learn to drive manual transmission
- Submit a short story to McSweeny’s
- Get my passport
- Bring a girl home and introduce her to my parents
- Read a book I think I won’t like at the recommendation of someone I trust
- Have sex outdoors
- Participate in Bloomsday festivities
- Go to a winery
- Get a car
- Go white water rafting
Tell someone (not related) that I love them (and mean it)
