Monday, August 10, 2009

101 things

Like some of my other friends and acquaintances I have decided to use the 101 things in 1001 days(May 7th 2012) meme to overhaul my life. However some of the things I put on my list ended up being just a tad too personal for me to share on the Internet. These will manifest as a number followed by a blank.

1. Make list of 101 things to do in 1001 days. Done.

2. Publish a short story.

3. Finish writing a novel.

4. Visit a state other than Washington.

5. Get my tranfer degree at PCC.

6. Apply for food stamps by October 2009.

7. Write at least a dozen poems. 0/12

8. Learn to ride a bike.

9. Learn to swim.

10. Go on a date.

11.

12.Read a book by Aleister Crowley.

13. Read a book by Austin Spare

14. Read a book by Kenneth Grant

15. Write a song.

16. Learn to drive.

17. Lose 20 pounds.

18. Try alcohol.

19.

20. Clean my room every year in August. 0/3

21. Read a James Joyce novel.

22. Read Moby Dick.

23. Attend a Shakespeare play.

24. Attend a non Shakespeare play.

25. Write a play.

26. Write a comic.

27. Attend a con.

28. Start going to "real" college.

29. Give Blood.

30. Play a video game through to the finish.

31. Run at least one D&D campaign.

32. Run an rpg other than D&D.

33. Get a housecat.

34. Finish designing a pen and paper role-playing game.

35. Learn Spanish.

36. Learn one additional foreign language.

37. Read at least one book about Celtic mythology.

38. Finish making Logan and Zena's wedding gift.

39. Design a Tarot deck.

40. Read "The Golden Bough."

41. Get a better job.

42. Write an audio play.

43. Fail completely at one of the things on this list.

44. Watch a horror movie a day one October.

45. Read a book on Tarot.

46. Read a book about the I Ching.

47. Pay my mother at least 10,000 dollars spread out over the period. 0/10000.

48.

49. Update my blog at least 40 times. Not counting updates to this list. 1/40

50. Get a housemate.

51. Clean house top to bottom every spring. 0/3

52. Make at least 3 new friends. 0/3

53. Learn a role-playing system I've never played with before.

54. Try dice-less role-playing.

55. Attend a church service. (Just out of curiosity.)

56. Learn to play the harmonica.

57.

58.

59. Save 2600$

60. Write at least one work of pornography under a pseudonym.

61. Learn to not freak out around dogs.

62. Go 60 days without soda. 0/60

63. Pay only in cash for six months. (not necessarily consecutive.) 0/6

64. Host a Halloween party.

65. Read the complete works of Poe.

66. Read the remainder of my Lovecraft Anthologies.

67. Write a dozen stories about Vampires. 0/12

68. Read "The Invisibles"

69. Don't buy any books until I finish what I currently have on my plate.

70. Move firewood into basement before September 2009.

71. Trim the yard once a month during the spring and summer months. 1/21

72. Write at least a paragraph of something per day. 1/1001

73. Never let my tweets go over 200 a month. 1/33

74. Pass Math 111 in Fall 2009.

75. Spend one day a month doing nothing. 1/33

76. Visit the zoo once a year. 0/3

77. Turn my mom's old bedroom, or the basement into an office.

78. See a live concert at least once a year. 0/3

79. Get a proper Christmas tree. 0/3

80. Find a group to run Promethean with.

81. Try writing a nonfiction work.

82. Read the Bible.

83. Read the Qu'ran.

84. Read the Enuma Elis

85. Read the Nag Hammadi texts.

86. Take a hard science course and get better than a C.

87. Retake and pass US History 201 out of pride.

88. Finish collecting every issue of Starman.

89. Acquire some actual Chick Tracts.

90. Write a science-fiction story.

91. Get somebody to watch "Man of the Century" with me.

92. Begin writing "Z-type."

93. Learn how playing cards can be used for divination.

94. Make sure to get a cool calender every year. 0/3

95. Use the Qlippoth in fiction.

96. Keep a dream journal.

97. Keep a writing journal.

98. Carry a small ideas notebook at all times.

99. Watch a John Waters movie.

100. Take a week off one December to experiment with living only at night.

101. Get some variety of cell phone.

That's the list I'm going to try to stick to it, but I have a history of getting bored or forgetting about this sort of thing after a couple of months, so wish me luck. I have eliminated and altered the internet related items now that I realize how much work it would be just to keep track of those things.

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