Inspired by Maggie Mason’s 100 things to do before I go.
- Set up file sharing between my Mac and my netbook
- Make gnocchi gorgonzola from scratch
- Host my own seder
- Hang shelves in my bedroom
- Go to grad school
- Pay off my grad school loans (working on it)
- Own a globe
- Adopt a pet (oh hello, George Margot Kitty)
- Take a dance class
- Make a cake with more than two layers (proof)
- Pick fruit (peaches & apples, so far)
- Make jam with said fruit (vanilla peach, ginger peach, peach & ancho chile, apple butter)
- Can (well, technically, jar) things:
- jam (so far: cherry, apple butter, peach, marmalade)
- homemade Sriracha
- homemade barbecue sauce
- Frame and hang a set of art and photos, like this (voila!)
- Go camping in the snow
- Live in Uganda for a year
- Go back to Uganda
- Go back again
- Ride the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Lake Baikal
- Visit zoos in 10 different countries (so far: Chile, Guatemala, Kenya, Netherlands, Uganda, United States)
- Ride trains in 20 different countries (so far: Bosnia, Croatia, Canada, France, Hungary, Netherlands, Russia, United States)
- Have a favorite cocktail (currently: a tie between Death in the Gulf Stream and The Burlington)
- Learn how to make five cocktails from memory
- Have a barista offer me “the usual” at a coffee shop
- Work at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Experience white nights
- Give a professional presentation/talk in a language other than English
- Learn how to whistle (note: I have been trying for 20 years. I think this will be the hardest thing on this list to accomplish)
- Learn how to do a handstand
- Successfully operate a parachute
- Stop being afraid of spiders
- Make homemade pad thai that tastes better than (good) restaurant pad thai (amazingly, a vegetarian version of Alton Brown’s recipe was the winner)
- Learn how to make Massaman curry from scratch
- Learn how to play five songs on the harmonica or the piano or the guitar
- Live in New York City
- Spend a week as a vegan
- Successfully climb a volcano
- Road trip up (or down) the West Coast
- Spend a month offline (so far: 19 days is my longest stretch)
- Go on a weekend yoga retreat
- Be able to hold Chaturanga Dandasana for 10 seconds
- Learn how to bake a consistently, solidly delicious loaf of bread off the cuff, sans recipe
- Teach someone how to bake a consistently, solidly delicious loaf of bread off the cuff, sans recipe
- Go backpacking
- Own a swing (rope, tire, or porch)
- Own a hammock (in college; sadly no longer in my apartment)
- Own another hammock (mission accomplished)
- Read 100 books in 365 days (ta-da!)
- Take 1000 photos in 365 days (the best ones are on Instagram at #rhj365)
- Wear plaid
- Chop (almost) all my hair off
- Grow vegetables (mmmm, lettuce)
- Submit an idea to Radiolab that makes it onto the show
- Take a vacation that involves buying a last-minute plane ticket at the airport
- Practice yoga at least once a week for a year (thank you, O2)
- Take my niblings on a trip abroad
- Spend an afternoon at a Turkish bath, in Turkey
- Run a half marathon
- Learn to like poached eggs (turns out I just needed to, you know, try one) (update: back to thinking they’re disgusting, but at least I gave it a shot?)
- Run The Other Half
- Try 15 new vegetables (so far: okra, Brazilian cucumbers, parsnips, chard, collard greens, garlic scapes, turnips)
- Complete a triathlon
- Run a marathon (trained up to 22 miles and then got injured. current goal: rehab, base building)
- Take CS50
- Give someone a balloon bouquet
- Make a quilt
- Give someone a handmade quilt
Make something out of clay that I can use every day- Seek out a mentor
Mentor someone- Knit a sweater
- Give someone a sweater I’ve knitted
- Make a piece of clothing I’m comfortable wearing in public
- Contribute to 10 repos on GitHub that I don’t own (1, 2, 3)
- Tend a goat (meet Jack, one of eight goats at the Mass Audubon Habitat Wildlife Sanctuary)
- Join the 4000 Footer Club
- Start blogging using Jekyll
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