ariasne

Today is Thursday, April the 5th, 2007.
In 1001 days, it will be Thursday, December the 31st, 2009
In the intervening period, I will strive to complete the following things:


General
1. Get into a university - 16/08/07
2. Get a Work Experience placement with the FCO
3. Work out who I’m going to vote for - 03/05/07
4. Vote - 03/05/07
5. Keep in touch with people from School
6. E-mail Tom at least once a week
7. Go 48 hours without sleep
8. Go a whole week without using anything electric (light bulbs not included)
9. Zorb
10. Tone down my hyperbole
11. Complete all six of my Final Fantasy games
12. Get another Lego Watch - 22/05/07
13. Find a “word of the day” service, and use each word in conversation, fiction, or livejournal.  Abandoned 02/05/07
14. Find a UK Web comic convention that has more than one artist I read frequently, and attend
15. Go to a RenFaire type thing
16. Project 365
17. Learn some basic Russian
Food & Drink
18. 5 portions a day for a month
19. Try 10 foods I haven’t tried before - 1
20. Learn to prepare at least 4 main courses - 1
21. Find a beer that I like
22. Go for 6 months without Fizzy Drinks
Money
23. Don’t buy a NextGen console (or LastGen come to that)
24. Don’t buy a new computer until this one is beyond repair
25. Stop buying Q magazine
26. Don’t spend on anything except necessities (food, bills, etc.) for a month
Travel
27. Visit Ireland
28. Visit somewhere in Eastern Europe
29. Visit Highgate Cemetary
30. Visit America
31. Climb Arthur’s Seat
32. See a Panda
33. Learn to Drive
London
34. Ride all the way around the Circle line without getting off
35. Ride the Escalators at Angel station for ten minutes - 06/04/07
36. Go on the Eye - 01/06/07
37. Walk the Marathon route
38. Ice Skate at Somerset House
Appearance and Health
39. Dye my hair an eccentric colour
40. Stop biting my nails - 19/06/07
41. Lose a Stone and keep it lost
42. Go to bed before 11 every day for a week - 11/06/07
43. Get up before 8 every day for the same week - 11/06/07
Books
44. War and Peace
45. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - 4/08/07
46. Cloud Atlas - 09/07/07
47. Neverwhere - 4/08/07
48. The Satanic Verses
49. King Lear
50. Henry V - 02/05/07
51. Snow Crash - 01/08/07
52. The God Delusion
53. Something by Nietzsche
54. Either/Or
55. At least 1 book a month
56. Finish the Big Read list
57. Wherever I end up going to Uni, join the city library.
58. Buy a Sluggy Freelance Megatome
59. Catalogue my books on Library Thing- 10/04/07
Gigs
60. The Decemberists
61. Regina Spektor
62. The Arcade Fire - 07/07/07
63. The Postal Service
64. Bill Bailey
65. Dylan Moran
66. Oxegen Festival
67. Glastonbury
68. The Lord of the Rings Musical - 24/05/07
Writing
69. Send a manuscript to a publisher
70. Finish editing my NaNoWriMo novel
71. Take part in at least 1 more NaNoWriMo
72. Finish my Picaresque story
73. Finish my List of 100 stories
74. Write a children’s story
75. Write at least one good poem
76. Find a ribbon for one of the typewriters in the attic.
77. Enter a Literary Competition
78. Finish my Peru Journal and organise accompanying Photos
79. Once the List is finished, do 26 things, except with words, not pictures
80. Identify 100 things that make me happy, and write at least 100 words on them
81. Send at least 1 letter/card/other type of paper-based correspondence per month
Films
82. All 3 Lord of the Rings extended editions back to back
83. All 7 Harry Potters back to back
84. Citizen Kane
85. Days of Heaven
86. The Third Man
87. Triumph of the Will - 21/04/07
88. Brazil
89. Hedgehog in the Fog - 06/08/07
90. The Motorcycle Diaries
91. Annie Hall - 07/08/07
Music
92. Stop downloading music
93. Filter out the crap on iTunes - 10/04/07
94. Don’t use the word “sucks” in relation to anyone else’s music tastes for a whole month
95. Stop listening to cassettes at night. Embrace technology!
Good Deeds
96. ActionAid Sponsor a child
97. Give Blood
98. Donate 20 things I have but don’t need to a charity
99. Donate £2 to Oxfam for every uncompleted task at the end of 1001 days.
100. No Starbucks, Costa, McDonalds or any other corporation for a year

101. Write another list of 101 things to do

---
4th June 2007 update: Two months in, I've completed 10 achievements, and abandoned 1. I am in the progress of completing four others, and have made arrangements to complete at least two more, though those won't be completed until October.

4th August 2007 update: Four Months in. I've completed 18 tasks in total, and abandoned 1. I am half way through another (almost literally, I'm saving the second half of War and Peace for the train back home), and have made arrangements to complete about 3 more in the coming month, plus the one remaining for October.

13th February update: 29 things done