Monday, May 30, 2011

30/30 Vision

 ~ 30 Things I Want to do Before I Turn 30 ~
(In progress...and probably will be until Feb 20th, 2013)

~Travels~

1. Thailand
2. Australia
3. Croatia
4. Backpack in England
5. Cycle Loire Valley
    ~Classes / Courses~

    6. Photography
    7. Trapeze
    8. Dance - hip hop?
    9. Pottery
    10. French - be at a conversational level?
    11. Parkour - Sept 7th, 2011

    ~Tick the Box~

    12. Pin-Up Girl Photo Shoot (February 15th, 2012)
    13. Beer Bong July 2011
    14. Kiss a stranger, Walk away
    15. Run blog/website with 200 readers - amended: have 1000 reads on my blog in one month
    16. Hay on Wye Festival
    17. Start a business
    18. Skinny dipping
    19. Host a party more epic than the Luau
    20. WWOOF
    21. Toga party

    ~General Ignorance~ 
    (Inspired by the fact that the more I learn the more I feel I don't know about the basics of life and stuff and junk)

    22. Read a book(s) of World History (three books on order)
    23. Where the History Comes From:
      • January 2012 /February - Middle East / North Africa
      • March/April - Asia
      • May/June - Europe and Central Asia
      • July/August- Africa
      • September/October - South and Central America
      • November/December - North America
      • January 2013 /February - Australia / New Zealand
    ~Books~

    24. Top 30 - custom list
      • 1. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself
      • 2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
      • 3. The Selected Essays of Montaigne
      • 4. Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
      • 5. South of the Border West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
      • 6. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
      • 7. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
      • 8. The Confessions of St. Augustine
      • 9. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
      • 10. Stoner by John Williams
      • 11. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
      • 12. Perceval or the Story of the Grail by Chretien de Troyes
      • 13. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
      • 14. The Sandman book 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
      • 15. Doubt: A History by Jennifer Michael Hecht
      • 16. The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
      • 17. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
      • 18. The Book Shop by Penelope Fitzgerald
      • 19. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
      • 20. A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
      • 21. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
      • 22. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
      • 23. Gilgamesh
      • 24. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
      • 25. The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
      • 26. Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America by Ted Morgan
      • 27. The Spleen of Paris by Charles Baudelaire
      • 28. Snow by Orhan Pamuk
      • 29. Selected Poems of C. P. Cavafy
      • 30. Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
    25. 30 Classics (TBC) - Conveniently, I found this list!  Some I've read so I'll replace with other  classics.  Also, conveniently, several of these are public domain.  Hooray for free classics!
        • 1. Siddhartha by Hermann Hess
        • 2. 1984 by George Orwell
        • 3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
        • 4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
        • 5. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
        • 6. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
        • 7. The Rights of Man by Tom Paine
        • 8. The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
        • 9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
        • 10. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
        • 11. The Wisdom of the Desert by Thomas MertonThe Wisdom of the Desert by Thomas Merton
        • 12. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
        • 13. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
        • 14. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
        • 15. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
        • 16. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
        • 17. Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
        • 18. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
        • 19. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
        • 20. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
        • 21. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
        • 22. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
        • 23. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
        • 24. The Republic by Plato
        • 25. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
        • 26. Getting Things Done by David Allen
        • 27. How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
        • 28. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
        • 29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
        • 30. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgak
        • BONUS: How To Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
        • BONUS: Honeymoon with My Brother by Franz Wisner
      ~London~

      26. Accomplish London goals
        • Walk down all streets in Central - progress but still a lot of walking to be done
        • Walk down entire length of Regent's Canal (July 28th, 2011)
        • Visit all London Parks / Gardens (not quite sure which to include yet...)
          • Regents
          • Hyde
          • Green
          • St. James
          • Hampstead Heath
          • Victoria
          • Kew
          • Battersea 
          • Chelsea Physic (now a member! see me if you want free entry and some tea!)
          • Kensington Roof 
          • Richmond 
                      London Books
        • Triology by Peter Ackroyd (London, Thames, Albion) + London Under
        • Secret London
      ~Fitness~
      (See this post for details)

      27. 10 consecutive pull ups
      28. 100 consecutive push ups
        ~ The Arts ~ 
        29. Play in a band again 
        30. See a play at the Minack


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