Okay, so what are you going to do?

Here is the master list, in numerical order, which only loosely signifies the order in which I thought things up. It should be noted that all reading goals were originally goal #3 but have since been broken down for manageability reasons.

For quick, skimmable, status-reporting purposes, I will be implementing a color coding system on this list, as well as the subsequent category breakdown lists. Standard font color will signify that a goal is neither completed nor even begun. Terra cotta will signify goals upon which I am currently making headway, while blue will be the color of completion. Additionally, completed goals will be turned into links to their corresponding write-up posts. Handy, no?


1. Participate in NaNoWriMo.
2. Score ≥167 on the LSAT.
3. Be able to do all three splits.
4. Discover AND LIKE 101 new bands or solo artists.
5. Go to the Continent.
6. Go to Alaska.
7. Go to Indonesia.
8. Plant things. Make them grow and stuff.
9. Learn to properly knit a human-sized sweater.
10. Run a real world mile in less than ten minutes.
11. Buy $10 of stock during the first week and do NOT look at its earnings (or losses) until Day 1001.
12. Rosetta Stone: Spanish
13. Rosetta Stone: Arabic
14. Turn off the internet for a week [in preparation for...]
15. Turn off the computer for a week.
16. Donate at least $500.50 on Donors Choose.
17. Volunteer in a battered woman's shelter.
18. Write at least one quality drabble weekly.
19. Read at least 3 articles in each of these weekly: The Economist, New Scientist, and the New Yorker. Bonus points for taking out a subscription.
20. Learn at least thirty ethnic food recipes. Prepare each satisfactorily.
21. Replace every lightbulb in my living space with an energy-saving equivalent.
22. Learn to play June on the West Coast on guitar.
23. Visit at least 25 cathedrals.
24. Swing on 101 unique swingsets.
25. Adapt a favorite novel into a screenplay.
26. Spend at least 24 consecutive hours on an Amtrak train.
27. Go to Antigua.
28. Find out with certainty why "A Save Situation" is named after a baseball thing.
29. Visit an old house on the Danforth.
30. Go to Islands of Adventure.
31. Take an oral history.
32. Go to Big Sur.
33. Learn to be good at chess.
34. Clean out iTunes ratings; begin anew with Standards. Have more than half the library genuinely rated by the end of the 1001.
35. Participate in the 24 pictures/24 hours thing at least 3 times.
36. Reupholster something successfully.
37. Selfportrait Thursday
38. Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity for at least 101 hours.
39. Learn to build my own desktop. Do so.
40. Create an entire outfit by hand.
41. Learn the constellations. And how to tell the damn planets apart from the stars on a consistent basis.
42. Learn how to program a website.
43. Learn the Kiddish, the Kaddish, and the prayer for breaking bread.
44. Raise $500.50 by doing Walks for the Cure.
45. Learn to snorkel.
46. Serve on a grand jury.
47. Perform a daylight fast - 3 days
48. Perform a daylight fast- 5 days
49. Perform a daylight fast - 7 days
50. Sell baked goods at a farmer's market.
51. Make a real green dress.
52. See a staged version of Angels in America.
53. Learn to tell the difference between wines.
54. Finish the Discworld series.
55. (re)Read the complete works of Tennessee Williams.
56. Read 25 "Classics."
57. Read 3 "Russian Classics."
58. Read the complete works of Salman Rushdie.
59. Read every book on the shelf that has not yet been so.
60. Stand at the foot of a mountain. Possibly climb up it a little bit.
61. Join the Foreign Service OR be taking significant educational steps (ie be in grad school) to do so.
62. Stand on a cliff and throw little things off.
63. Become a faux-expert in the tasting of cheese.
64. Visit Atlantis.
65. Volunteer in a public library (or more than one) for at least 101 hours.
66. Collect 101 new characters.
67. Fill a watercolor journal.
68. Loan $101 on Kiva; recycle all repayments.
69. Perform community awareness to raise an additional $500.50 for Kiva loan seekers.
70. Achieve 500,000 grains of rice on Free Rice for Spanish vocabulary.
71. Achieve 500,000 grains of rice in all other subjects.
72. Learn the dance from Dirty Dancing.
73. Write 101 letters to Washington.
74. Be a member of the live! studio audience of The Daily Show.
75. Begin and maintain a mixtape-exchange between friends for one year.
76. Listen to "Goodbye Sky Harbor" as I'm leaving Sky Harbor.
77. Follow at least ten pieces of advice from Everybody's Free.
78. Accumulate 101 postcards.
79. Write a children's story and find someone to illustrate it.
80. Bake my own bread for a month.
81. Buy something from a local artist.
82. Have a picnic in a park with a bottle of wine and at least one good friend.
83. Handmake and send ten no-occasion cards to friends and family.
84. Go to ten special exhibitions at museums.
85. Read ten books that are recommended to me.
86. Watch 25 of the Greatest Movies of All Time Ever that I've never before seen.
87. Complete my 1000 piece Kandinsky puzzle and frame it.
88. Throw a dinner party for at least six people (myself included).
89. Keep detailed accounting data for one month.
90. Intentionally go out in the pouring rain and soak through.
91. Write down dreams first thing in the morning for two weeks.
92. Stand on a frozen lake.
93. Learn to identify at least ten things under the hood of a car and how you can tell when they break.
94. Donate at least two articles of clothing at the end of every season.
95. Write a full page with my right hand.
96. Go to bed before midnight for one full week.
97. Make a baby onesie out of a Stewart/Colbert '08 shirt.
98. Have at least five indoor plants alive for at least three months all at once.
99. Drink a Soco Amaretto Lime.
100. Remember a pretty good year.
101. Accumulate $5005 in the Imaginary Fund.