101 in 1001 August 22, 2008

1. Finish my dissertation
2. Get my Ph.D.
3. Get a job I enjoy
4. Move to Chicago (or other cool big city)
5. Run a 10K
6. Run a half-marathon
7. Run a marathon
8. Learn to drive the scooter up the driveway
9. Paint my house
10. Take a road trip to the Northeast or Canada (or both!)
11. Learn how to knit
12. Get at least 3 scholarly publications (co-authorships and my dissertation count)
13. Read at least 5 new books every year for pleasure
14. Learn web design stuff so that my blog is totally awesome and so that I can eventually have my own site.
15. Learn to sew so that I can make my own clothes (and not rely on crappy, mass-produced clothes that were never intended to be worn by people built like me)
16. Finish learning that Chopin ballade I started 4 years ago
17. Read 100 Years of Solitude
18. Read Love in the Time of Cholera
19. Eat at Chez Panisse
20. Learn how to make really good chai
21. Go an entire month without eating any commercially prepared food
22. Visit at least one member of my family every month for a year
23. Develop the ability to do 100 consecutive push-ups
24. Develop the ability to do 100 consecutive ab crunches
25. Ride my bike in to work at least once a week for 6 months
26. Take a trip to Portland
27. Take a trip to Austin
28. Go to significant Alabama landmarks I’ve never visited
29. Watch one new movie every week (By “new,” I mean a movie I’ve never seen before) for a year.
30. Read Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style and apply it to my writing
31. Eliminate all high fructose corn syrup from my diet
32. Take some sort of class to learn something I’ve never done before (painting, pottery, etc.)
33. Frame all of the artwork I’ve accumulated that hasn’t been framed
34. Get re-certified in CPR
35. Do something for the benefit of a stranger anonymously at least once a week.
36. Walk my dog at least once a week
37. Go to the podiatrist about my feet
38. Buy only cruelty-free grooming products
39. Buy only environmentally-sound cleaning products
40. Make a conscious effort to avoid supporting companies that engage in overtly unfair business practices (i.e., WalMart)
41. Send my Granny more letters and cards
42. Send my Grandma more letters and cards
43. Call/e-mail my Nana more
44. Have family members over to the house for a party
45. Invite my friends over at least three times a year for a party of some sort
46. Eliminate toxic people from my life (as much as is possible)
47. Learn to deal with annoying people without losing my temper
48. Go one day a week without using any swear words
49. Give at least $10/month to a cause I really believe in
50. Pay off my MacBook
51. Get an Epi-Pen so that I don’t freak out whenever a bee flies near me
52. Send out cards over the holidays
53. Go see an opera
54. Go see a symphony orchestra play
55. Print out my best vacation photos and display them around the house
56. Craft a “for-real” resume
57. Complete an entire crossword puzzle
58. Complete an entire sudoku puzzle
59. Attend a major league baseball game
60. Find an awesome pair of “professional” shoes in both brown and black
61. Find a really great briefcase/laptop bag
62. Trim all of the bushes around the house back to their 2005 sizes
63. Do more yoga
64. Learn a different type of yoga
65. Invest in a good quality scootering jacket
66. Visit the Unclaimed Baggage store in Scottsboro
67. Take pictures of Scott playing with Brubeck
68. Beat all of the levels on MarioKart
69. Attend a shape-note hymn singing
70. Avoid patronizing chain stores for an entire month
71. Organize all of my old photos
72. Clean out my file boxes
73. Finish collecting all of Dave Brubeck’s records
74. Boost my FICO score to above 750
75. Recycle all of my glass waste
76. Recycle at least 75% of my aluminum waste
77. Recycle at least 75% of my paper waste
78. Avoid using plastics whenever possible
79. When it’s not possible, use recyclable plastics
80. Recycle 90% of my plastic waste
81. Reprint all of my photographs from Egypt and put them in an album
82. Visit every building on campus at least once
83. Tailgate on the Quad
84. Eat at Highlands
85. Grow hair long enough to donate to Locks of Love
86. Take a picture every day for a year
87. Create a list of my Top 100 movies
88. Create a list of my Top 100 songs or albums (whichever is easier)
89. Stop consuming foods that are mostly chemicals (junk food and sodas)
90. Take and pass a Motorcycle Safety Foundation course.
91. Have a brunch party
92. Have a sleepover party
93. Figure out vegetarian adaptations for things I liked as a kid and cook them
94. Eat at Commander’s Palace
95. Eat at Herbsaint
96. Find a pair of glasses that I actually like to wear
97. Go see a movie at the Alabama Theater
98. Go see a movie at the Capri Theatre
99. See a play at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival
100. Develop proficiency in SPSS
101. Treat myself to an entire day at a spa

And that, my friends, is my list of 101 goals for myself. I’ll update periodically as I begin to cross things off the list.