My list of 101 things I’d like to do within 1,001 days. This began July 9, 2010… which means I’ve got until April 5, 2013.
Traveling (out of town)
1. Go somewhere in Europe
2. Go back to Charleston, S.C.
3. Attend the TriBeCa Film Festival
4. See the Grand Canyon
5. See Mt. Rushmore
6. Go on a road trip across at least three states
7. See Shakespeare in Central Park
8. Kayak on the Hudson
9. Visit Ellis Island & find my great-grandparents’ immigration information
10. Take a train out of state
11. Go to a movie in Bryant Park
12. Visit San Francisco
13. Visit The Cloisters
14. Take the boys to Fire Island
15. Take the boys to a Broadway show
16. Take a cooking class at the Natural Gourmet Cookery School in NYC
17. Take a class at the FIT in NYC
18. Take the boys to visit my dad in Texas
19. Take the boys to Starved Rock
20. Take the boys to the beach in Indiana
21. Go to Costa Rica
22. Teach ESL abroad
Movies/Television
23. See Roman Holiday
24. Watch entire series of The Sopranos
25. Go to opening night of a film festival
26. See a Midwest Film Festival film
Reading
27. Stendhal’s The Red and the Black
28. Infinite Jest
29. War and Peace
Classes for fun
30. Take an aquatic fitness class
31. Take a hip-hop dance class
32. Take a class at the Discovery Center
33. Take a pottery class
34. Take a cooking class
35. Take a yoga class
36. Take an art class
37. Take a writing class
38. Take a fitness class
39. Learn flower arrangement
40. Take a web development class
41. Take a knitting class
Formal education/career-related
42. Take the LSAT
43. Apply for NYC Teaching Fellow program
44. Take a science class that intimidates me (chemistry, physics)
45. Learn a foreign language
46. Take a math class
Miscellaneous
47. Climb a volcano
48. Get a bikini wax
49. Try acupuncture
50. Skydive
51. Get a chest tattoo
52. Get a Monroe piercing
53. Sit in the audience of a TV show
My apartment
54. Organize my photos/redo photo albums
55. Refinish or sell side tables
56. Refinish or sell coffee table
57. Clean out my bedroom closet
58. Clean out the hallway closet
59. Clean out my storage space
60. Move to a larger apartment
61. Reframe watercolor series from thrift store
Cooking
62. Make granita
63. Learn how to make seitan
64. Make homemade soup
Chicago things
65. See a show at the Chicago Shakespeare Co.
66. See a show at Theater on the Lake
Things to buy
67. Get a bike trailer
68. Buy a Zipcar membership
69. Rejoin Ironweed Film Club
70. Get a brand-new laptop
71. Seek, find, and buy the perfect writing desk
Money
72. Save $1,001
73. Open a Roth IRA and divert 2% of earnings into it
74. Sell the ghettovan
Family Stuff
75. Take the boys to a matinee at the Music Box
76. See the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with the boys
77. See The Princess Bride with the boys
78. Take the boys to the Art Institute
79. Take the boys to the Museum of Contemporary Art
80. Go hiking with the boys
As a parent
81. Join the PTA
82. Chaperone a high-school function
Personal growth
83. Lose 50 pounds
84. Celebrate 3 years of sobriety
85. Celebrate 4 years of sobriety
86. Get permanent birth control
Dating/socializing
87. Join a social club
88. Go speed dating
89. Join a book club
90. Go on a blind date
Volunteering
91. Get on the board of a non-profit group
92. Volunteer at 826
93. Undertake a volunteer activity with the boys
94. Support microlending (donate money)
95. Work or volunteer on a political campaign
96. Become an election judge
Writing
97. Participate in NaNoWriMo
98. Form a writing group
99. Write a book of essays
100. Publish a book of essays
101. Finish my photo/essay project
