PretentiousAcademian in 2008

2008, so far, is 91% worth living.

In 2005, PretentiousAcademian did 71 things, went 44 places, met 0 people, and consumed 555 products.

Years: 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Mar | Apr | May | Jun

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. watch "american idol"
  2. get my Friends DVDs back — completed 90 days later
  3. set a bedtime for myself and stick to it
  4. donate blood regularly — completed 90 days later
  5. keep up with schoolwork this semester
  6. have better control of my emotions — completed 90 days later
  7. keep an ongoing list of things we need to buy
  8. Get a tattoo that has meaning
  9. become a book editor
  10. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
  11. become a mentor
  12. run a marathon
  13. build a house with habitat for humanity
  14. join Team In Training
  15. lose some weight
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. See a Broadway musical, on Broadway — Worth doing!
  2. get married — Worth doing!
  3. Make a Wedding Toast — Worth doing!
  4. go skinny dipping — Not worth doing
  5. go back to college — Worth doing!
  6. Move to New York — Worth doing!
  7. move away from my parents — Worth doing!
  8. Visit England — Worth doing!
  9. see a Gilbert and Sullivan at the Opera House — Worth doing!
  10. finish watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy — Worth doing!
  11. watch all of the Freaks and Geeks episodes — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. watch "american idol"

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. remember that guilt is a choice — completed 24 days later
  2. create a list of 100 must-read books and read them.
  3. do an inventory of all my books
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Become a vegetarian — Worth doing!
  2. fall in love with a good guy — Worth doing!
  3. Marry the right man — Worth doing!
  4. learn to drive — Worth doing!
  5. Start therapy — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Paris
  2. Heaven
  3. South Africa
  4. Kazakhstan
  5. Curacao
  6. Alabama
  7. Alaska
  8. Arizona
  9. Delaware
  10. Kansas
  11. Kentucky
  12. New Orleans
  13. Michigan
  14. Mississippi
  15. St. Louis
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Kalispell — Worth visiting!
  2. Buxton — Worth visiting!
  3. Hollywood — Worth visiting!
  4. Long Beach — Worth visiting!
  5. Portland — Worth visiting!
  6. Seattle — Worth visiting!
  7. Honolulu — Worth visiting!
  8. Glacier National Park — Worth visiting!
  9. Vancouver — Worth visiting!
  10. Lethbridge — Worth visiting!
  11. Cut Bank — Not worth visiting
  12. London — Worth visiting!
  13. Houston — Worth visiting!
  14. Santa Fe — Worth visiting!
  15. Denver — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. The Chronicles of Narnia — Worth consuming!
  3. Mere Christianity — Worth consuming!
  4. Brave New World — Worth consuming!
  5. The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club) — Worth consuming!
  6. Their Eyes Were Watching God — Not worth consuming
  7. Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery) — Worth consuming!
  8. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) — Worth consuming!
  10. Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century Classics) — Worth consuming!
  11. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  12. Bleak House (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  13. Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  14. Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays) — Worth consuming!
  15. The BFG — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
  2. Blue — Worth consuming!
  3. Jagged Little Pill — Worth consuming!
  4. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb — Worth consuming!
  5. Dark Side Of The Moon — Worth consuming!
  6. Music from the Motion Picture "Purple Rain"
  7. Moon Safari — Worth consuming!
  8. Rubber Soul — Worth consuming!
  9. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band — Worth consuming!
  10. Legend (New Packaging)
  11. The Man Who
  12. The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill — Worth consuming!
  13. Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below — Worth consuming!
  14. Hotel California — Worth consuming!
  15. Unplugged — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection) — Worth consuming!
  2. Batman — Worth consuming!
  3. Beetlejuice — Worth consuming!
  4. Duck Soup — Worth consuming!
  5. Coming to America — Worth consuming!
  6. His Girl Friday — Worth consuming!
  7. Raising Arizona — Worth consuming!
  8. Casablanca — Worth consuming!
  9. James and the Giant Peach (Special Edition)
  10. Dead Man Walking — Worth consuming!
  11. The Matrix — Worth consuming!
  12. 10 Things I Hate About You — Worth consuming!
  13. The Shawshank Redemption — Worth consuming!
  14. Grease (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  15. The Lion King (Disney Special Platinum Edition) — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. 'cleansweep' my life up to 100% (http://betterme.org/cleansweep.html)
  2. Be smoke free for all of 2008
  3. Floss everyday for a month in July
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get my Friends DVDs back — Worth doing!
  2. donate blood regularly — Worth doing!
  3. have better control of my emotions — Worth doing!
  4. remember that guilt is a choice — Worth doing!
  5. be smoke-free for one year — Worth doing!
  6. Quit Smoking — Worth doing!
  7. become a christian — Worth doing!
  8. Donate to charity — Worth doing!
  9. graduate from high school — Worth doing!
  10. go camping — Worth doing!
  11. Build a snowman — Worth doing!
  12. see the northern lights — Worth doing!
  13. Go on a road trip — Worth doing!
  14. start college — Worth doing!
  15. go to the zoo — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. set a bedtime for myself and stick to it
  2. keep up with schoolwork this semester
Read:
  1. Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  2. All Quiet on the Western Front — Worth consuming!
  3. 1984 (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
  4. 1984: Centennial Edition — Worth consuming!
  5. Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) — Worth consuming!
  6. All Quiet on the Western Front — Worth consuming!
  7. The Lord of the Rings — Worth consuming!
  8. Miss Match: A Lauren Holbrook Novel — Worth consuming!
  9. Summer Reading: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  10. The Trophy Wives: A Novel of Fakes, Faith, and a Love That Lasts Forever — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Buy and plant a tree with my sister
  2. plant trees with my small group
  3. Buy a piano
  4. Learn to play the piano
  5. Learn Koine Greek and Hebrew
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. graduate from college — Worth doing!
  2. Delete my facebook by May 31 — Not worth doing
  3. Delete my myspace by May 31 — Not worth doing

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June

Read:
  1. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Franny and Zooey — Worth consuming!
  3. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater — Worth consuming!
  4. The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions) — Worth consuming!
  5. Hard Times (Bantam Classics) — Worth consuming!
  6. Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Bantam Classics)
  7. A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions) — Worth consuming!
  8. Fear of Flying — Worth consuming!
  9. Shopaholic Ties the Knot — Worth consuming!
  10. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library) — Worth consuming!
  11. Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (Bedford Cultural Editions) — Worth consuming!
  13. Evelina — Worth consuming!
  14. Rematch: A Lauren Holbrook Novel — Worth consuming!
  15. Peculiar Treasures (The Katie Weldon Series) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Evan Almighty — Worth consuming!

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