- Get murried
- Finish a book by Ernest Hemingway
- Go to the gym 3 days a week for 3 months (allow breaks when not in Richmond)
- Learn 5 new fingerpicking songs on the guitar and have a mini-recital for Keds
- Drink the engagement wine
- Watch all of the Macgyvers
- Finish the 101 movies
- Help Keds find a job
- Submit 10 stories to magazines (1/10)
- Get a story published
- Find 3 new poets whose work I can say I know and like
- Have breakfast in bed with Keds
- Use all of our wedding gifts
- Discover a restaurant in Richmond that Keds and I both like
- Read one of my unread books for fun every semester (1/5)
- Finish 15 of my unread books (3/15)
- Buy a book on trees and learn to identify ten of them
- Visit Nonna on a long weekend
- Go on a hike
- Attempt to make roast beef and Yorkshire pudding
- Buy something frivolous
- Take a mini road trip
- See Niagara Falls (on the Canada side)
- Have school friends over for dinner or something
- Go to a baseball game with the guys
- Get season tickets to a theater in Richmond
- Take a ghost tour of Richmond
- Finish a school assignment a week ahead of time
- Find prints of Richmond to hang
- Make root beer
- Finish a cryptic crossword without cheating
- Learn five good crockpot recipes
- Walk dogs at an animal shelter
- Truly help a student
- Subscribe to two different literary magazines (1/2)
- Visit my brother and sister-in-law
- Learn how to buy a house
- Write a poem
- Backup all existing stories onto an external thing (Google Docs, eg)
- Play catch with dad
- Swim in a lake
- Keep a journal regularly for 6 months
- Hit a bulls-eye in darts
- Watch a foreign film
- Go to the Byrd Theatre
- Visit an art gallery
- Read in the Moveable Feast
- Write three more book reviews
- Visit my friend and his girlfriend in Blacksburg
- Still be in touch with my college adviser by the time this list is finished
- Change my oil on time for a year
- Teach a class on my own
- Go to a Nationals game in the new park
- Go on a picnic
- Discover a photographer
- Do ten hours of community service (Just ten! That’s nothing!)
- Teach my near-niece a new word
- Try contact lenses again
- Read the Book of Mormon
- Read the Koran
- Finish reading the Bible
- Take a ballroom dance class (preferably before the wedding)
- Learn to juggle
- Still be in touch with the third part of the Troika by the time this list is finished
- Read a second book by Chris Ware
- Write fan letters to Michael Chabon and Edward P. Jones
- Get a Ryan Zimmerman baseball card
- Get an Albert Pujols baseball card
- Visit Mount Vernon
- Visit a Civil War battlefield I’ve never been to before
- Learn three constellations (not including Orion or either of the dippers)
- Learn about five Negro League players
- Research grandpa’s semi-pro team some more
- Get grandpa’s semi-pro uniform preserved/framed
- Make mom’s fettucine alfredo recipe
- Have my brother and sister-in-law come visit
- Finish a Sunday NYT crossword puzzle
- Go to a VCU sporting event
- Go to a different doctor about my exercise-sick-thing
- Work at learning Spanish
- Learn what tax rules apply to writers and use them on a return
- Get a head shot to use as a contributor photograph
- Whiten my teeth
- Learn to make a Chinese food recipe amazingly well
- Complete a Rubik’s Cube
- Get my allergies under control
- Build something out of wood that I would be proud to display at home
- Go wine tasting again
- Take a ferry across the Chesapeake
- Go horseback riding
- Find an old map of Richmond, frame it, and hang it in the apartment
- Call mom twice a month (at least) for three months (while she’s in Italy)
- Go on a date with Keds at least once a month for six months straight
- Max out my IRA contribution one year while still in school
- Go to a batting cage
- Get and keep the book database up to date
- Bake a cake for no reason
- Donate blood
- Find a job after I graduate
- Get to know the guys’ girlfriends
- Grow a goatee
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