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Life To-Do List
  • Go snowboarding
  • Take a trip to a spa and get the full-blown pampering treatment (regardless of how ticklish I am)
  • Touch a fake boob. Odd, I know, but I hear stories about how nasty "fakies" feel, so I wanna see for myself. Completed 5/24/06! And the girl was a total sweetheart about it! And if you're wondering, hers were actually quite nice and felt real...I was impressed. :)
  • Go to a concert
    • John Mayer + Counting Crows
    • Phantom Planet
    • Rooney + Jason Mraz + Los Lonely Boys
    • Itzhak Perlman - Anyone who has played violin can appreciate how f*ckin' AMAZING this performance was
    • Keane
    • Soundtribe Sector 9
    • Muse
    • Ben Folds
    • Coldplay & Fiona Apple
  • See the opera "Carmen"
  • Hear a major religious figure speak in person (ie. The pope or the dalai lama). BONUS: Get an item blessed by said religious figure (I've got a friend who had a shotglass blessed by the pope, haha) - Completed 9/20/05: Two things that amazed me the most about the Dalai Lama was how humble he was and how he was realistic in his thinking. The first thing he said to everyone was "I am not anything special. I am one of you. When I speak to all of you, I am simply speaking to other human beings." It definitely made his speech feel more personal and close to home. :)
  • Do something people wouldn't expect me to do Halloween 2003 :P
  • Travel the world:
    • Europe:
      • Italy - Rome, Venice, Florence, The Vatican, the works Visited Rome, Pisa, Florence, and Venice!
      • Spain - I especially want to see the running of the bulls and tomatina
      • England Ridiculously expensive, but I'd go back again
      • Scotland - I kinda wanna try haggis :P
      • Ireland - Celtic castles!!
      • France Paris is lovely
      • New Zealand
      • Switzerland Visited Zurich!
      • The Netherlands Amsterdam...went once, and I think once is enough, haha.
      • Germany LOVED Munich...I developed my taste for beer in Germany
      • Austria Visited Vienna and revived my interest in classical music :)
      • Czech Republic Visited Prague
    • Asia:
      • Thailand - to eat the food and see one of the crossdressing shows
      • Japan
      • Tibet - I know, a little unconventional for a vacation spot, but I think it'd be really cool to see all the monasteries and maybe catch a glimpse of the Kumari Devi
      • Taiwan I've gone many times to see family :)
      • China
      • The Philippines
      • Korea - Well, maybe I shouldn't strike this one out quite yet...I was only there for a day. But I still got to see some of the sights and sounds of Seoul...and I tried eating silkworms. Which I probably won't do again.
    • South America:
      • Brazil - to ogle the people and to eat the food like there's no tomorrow :D
      • Argentina
    • Australia
    • N. America: (just listing these for the sake of memory)
      • Mexico - went to Cancun a few years ago
      • Canada - been to Toronto many times....I used to go almost on a regular basis when I lived in Buffalo, NY
  • Go fruit-picking My dad used to take us cherry picking every summer when I lived in NY
  • Visit San Francisco - everyone tells me that I'd LOVE the place...I wanna see for myself :)
  • Shoot a real gun
  • Smoke hookah
    • Peaches 'n cream
    • Melon + mint
    • Cherry + jasmine
  • Go clubbing and actually dance Kinda got weirded out by the dudes who wander around looking for an ass to grind on. No, I will not dance with you, and no, you most definitely will NOT get my number.
  • Learn how to throw knives
  • Have a "mad scientist moment" by holding a human brain in my hands Did it when I went on a field trip with my AP bio class to see open heart surgery. We visited a cadaver lab as well and got to hold and observe preserved body parts. You'd be surprised at how big your liver is. :D
  • Raise a butterfly from a caterpillar Did it in elementary school...mine didn't die! Woohoo! (several other kids had theirs die before it hatched out of the chrysalis)
  • Grow a plant from a seed My avocado plant
  • Develop a friendship with a teacher My Italian instructor Traci
  • Set up a bunch of plastic garbage cans in a line, and play "bowling", with my car as a ball. (dumb, I know, but it seems like it'd be fun to harmlessly knock crap over with my car :P)
  • Take a gourmet cooking class
  • Learn another language to semi-fluency Ehhh...SORT OF accomplished. Italian.
  • Make a 100 on an exam I've done it 5 times...wahoo! *puffs chest* :)
    • Chemistry II
    • Genetics
    • Calculus II
    • Pharmaceutical calculations final
    • Pharmaceutics II final
    • Close runner-up: a 99.5 on an economics exam
  • Go to Taiwan to teach English and try to improve my Chinese to near-perfection
  • Take a class that everyone would usually hate, and see if you can beat the odds by learning to enjoy it. Organic Chemistry II - I freakin' LOVED that class...happily attended every morning because my ochem prof was THAT awesome
  • Listen/record someone's story from the Vietnam War. Even better: listen or record someone's story from World War II.
  • Hear a Holocaust survivor's story
  • Listen to an elderly person's life story My grandfather :)
  • Make a 4.0 in a semester of college Fall semester 2004, even though it was a REALLY easy semester. But a 4.0 is a 4.0!
  • Make a 4.0 in a semester of pharmacy school - just so I can say that I've done it. :D
  • Skydiving
  • Try wine-tasting Accomplished 2/10/06 - a lovely experience! Tried 12 different wines. My favorite was the Mulderbosch Sauvignon Blanc. :)
  • Learn fencing
  • Celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans
  • Re-read "To Kill a Mockingbird" (as cheezy as it sounds, that book really does have a lot of life lessons in it)
  • Lay in the grass and do nothing
  • Go to a strip club (this could actually be paired with "touch a fake boob", listed above) Accomplished 10/14/06 - I actually had tons of fun! I just sat back with some friends and checked out/criticized the girls, haha.
  • Visit a place that is reported to be haunted and see if anything actually happens Completed 3/31/06 - Visited the "haunted" Spaghetti Warehouse in downtown...no ghosts to speak of, but I DID have a lovely girl's dinner date. :)
  • Learn to tango (rose between the teeth and all!)
  • Make a list of 100 things that make me happy Well worth doing! It put me in a good mood. :)
  • Make out with a British dude - Why? Because I'm a dumb American, and other dumb Americans would praise me for my Brit-pimpin' skills. :D
  • Go to a gay pride parade - Tons of fun! Very festive and lively. The only downside is that I was surrounding by multitudes of good-looking men who will NEVER be interested in me. *sigh*
  • Go to a fashion show - Pretty neat...I don't know jack about fashion, but it's always fun to see how creative people can be. :)