PretentiousAcademian in 2008

2008, so far, is 91% worth living.

In 2005, PretentiousAcademian did 72 things, went 44 places, met 0 people, and consumed 559 products.

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

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
  16. Nebraska
  17. Las Vegas
  18. New Hampshire
  19. North Carolina
  20. Oklahoma
  21. Rhode Island
  22. South Carolina
  23. Utah
  24. Virginia
  25. West Virginia
  26. Mexico
  27. Wisconsin
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!
  16. Colorado Springs — Worth visiting!
  17. Wyoming — Not worth visiting
  18. North Dakota — Not worth visiting
  19. Iowa
  20. Minnesota — Worth visiting!
  21. Arkansas
  22. Connecticut
  23. Florida
  24. Georgia
  25. Idaho
  26. Chicago — Worth visiting!
  27. Indianapolis
  28. Maine
  29. Maryland
  30. Boston — Worth visiting!
  31. New Jersey
  32. New York City — Worth visiting!
  33. Ohio
  34. Pennsylvania
  35. South Dakota
  36. Tennessee
  37. Burlington — Worth visiting!
  38. Washington, D.C.
  39. Long Island
  40. Harvard University
  41. Yale University
  42. New York University
  43. Big Sky Bible Camp — Worth visiting!
  44. San Francisco — 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!
  16. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  17. Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  18. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  19. Mrs. Dalloway — Worth consuming!
  20. Mansfield Park (Oxford World's Classics) — Worth consuming!
  21. Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon (Oxford World's Classics) — Worth consuming!
  22. The Hobbit — Worth consuming!
  23. The Catcher in the Rye — Worth consuming!
  24. J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) — Worth consuming!
  25. Empire Falls — Worth consuming!
  26. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics) — Worth consuming!
  27. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Modern Library Classics) — Worth consuming!
  28. Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics) — Worth consuming!
  29. The Awakening — Worth consuming!
  30. Cat's Cradle — Worth consuming!
  31. Things Fall Apart: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  32. No Longer at Ease — Worth consuming!
  33. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  34. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters — Worth consuming!
  35. Lord of the Flies — Worth consuming!
  36. Slaughterhouse-Five — Worth consuming!
  37. Holes (Yearling Newbery) — Worth consuming!
  38. To Kill a Mockingbird — Worth consuming!
  39. Sex and the City — Not worth consuming
  40. A Streetcar Named Desire — Worth consuming!
  41. Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
  42. Little Women (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
  43. Girl with a Pearl Earring — Worth consuming!
  44. Sula (Oprah's Book Club) — Worth consuming!
  45. Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics) — Worth consuming!
  46. Emma — Worth consuming!
  47. Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) — Worth consuming!
  48. The Lord of the Rings — Worth consuming!
  49. The Green Mile — Worth consuming!
  50. The Shipping News — Worth consuming!
  51. Othello — Worth consuming!
  52. Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) — Worth consuming!
  53. The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics) — Worth consuming!
  54. Sun Also Rises — Worth consuming!
  55. The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics) — Worth consuming!
  56. Citizen Girl — Worth consuming!
  57. The Great Gatsby — Worth consuming!
  58. Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) — Worth consuming!
  59. Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) — Worth consuming!
  60. Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library) — Worth consuming!
  61. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library) — Worth consuming!
  62. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Novels) — Worth consuming!
  63. Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  64. Tropic of Cancer — Worth consuming!
  65. The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings, 1) — Worth consuming!
  66. Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
  67. Frankenstein (Enriched Classics) — Worth consuming!
  68. Emily Ever After — Worth consuming!
  69. Fight Club: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  70. The Prodigal (Abrams Daughters) — Worth consuming!
  71. The Betrayal (Abrams Daughters) — Worth consuming!
  72. Something Borrowed — Worth consuming!
  73. The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings — Worth consuming!
  74. The Importance of Being Earnest — Worth consuming!
  75. Song of Solomon — Worth consuming!
  76. She's Out of Control — Worth consuming!
  77. Heavens to Betsy — Worth consuming!
  78. The Weight-Loss Diaries — Worth consuming!
  79. Evelina (Oxford World's Classics) — Worth consuming!
  80. The Magnificent Ambersons (Modern Library Classics)
  81. The Book of Job — Worth consuming!
  82. Persuasion (Cover to Cover Classics) — Worth consuming!
  83. The Holy Bible — Worth consuming!
  84. Prep: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  85. The Sacrifice — Worth consuming!
  86. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — Worth consuming!
  87. What a Girl Wants: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  88. The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings — Worth consuming!
  89. The Chronicles of Narnia — Worth consuming!
  90. Confessions of a Shopaholic — Worth consuming!
  91. Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions — Worth consuming!
  92. England, England — Worth consuming!
  93. Until Tomorrow (Christy and Todd: College Years) — Worth consuming!
  94. Christy Miller Collection, Vol 1 (Christy Miller Collection) — Worth consuming!
  95. The Da Vinci Code — Worth consuming!
  96. The Nanny Diaries — Worth consuming!
  97. If — Worth consuming!
  98. San Francisco (4-in-1 Romance) — Worth consuming!
  99. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants) — Worth consuming!
  100. Echoes (Glenbrooke) — Worth consuming!
  101. Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) — 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!
  16. The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album — Worth consuming!
  17. Rumours — Worth consuming!
  18. Harvest
  19. Dark Side of the Moon 30th Anniversary Edition — Worth consuming!
  20. Tommy (1969 Original Concept Album)
  21. Bridge Over Troubled Water — Worth consuming!
  22. Tapestry — Worth consuming!
  23. Unforgettable: With Love — Worth consuming!
  24. Falling into You — Worth consuming!
  25. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
  26. Taking The Long Way — Worth consuming!
  27. Golden Delicious — 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!
  16. Say Anything — Worth consuming!
  17. Gladiator (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Not worth consuming
  18. High Fidelity — Worth consuming!
  19. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Harry Potter 1) — Worth consuming!
  20. O Brother, Where Art Thou? — Worth consuming!
  21. Bridget Jones's Diary — Worth consuming!
  22. Shrek (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  23. Serendipity — Worth consuming!
  24. Rushmore - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  25. Edward Scissorhands (Widescreen Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
  26. A Beautiful Mind (Widescreen Awards Edition) — Worth consuming!
  27. The Hours — Worth consuming!
  28. Chicago (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  29. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Harry Potter 3) — Worth consuming!
  30. Love Actually (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  31. Lost in Translation — Not worth consuming
  32. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  33. Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  34. The Incredibles (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  35. Meet The Fockers (Widescreen Edition)
  36. Garden State — Worth consuming!
  37. The Motorcycle Diaries (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  38. Fahrenheit 9/11 — Worth consuming!
  39. The Princess Bride (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  40. Bull Durham — Worth consuming!
  41. Waking Life — Worth consuming!
  42. Ocean's Eleven (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  43. Amelie — Worth consuming!
  44. The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  45. Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  46. Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  47. The Big Lebowski — Worth consuming!
  48. Bowling for Columbine — Worth consuming!
  49. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Harry Potter 2) — Worth consuming!
  50. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  51. Punch-Drunk Love (Single Disc Edition) — Worth consuming!
  52. American Splendor — Worth consuming!
  53. Something's Gotta Give — Worth consuming!
  54. 21 Grams — Worth consuming!
  55. The Lord Of The Rings - The Motion Picture Trilogy (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  56. 50 First Dates (Widescreen Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  57. The Passion of the Christ (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  58. Bambi (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
  59. Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  60. The Notebook (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  61. I Heart Huckabees — Worth consuming!
  62. Kinsey — Worth consuming!
  63. Clue — Worth consuming!
  64. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  65. A Knight's Tale
  66. Ever After - A Cinderella Story — Worth consuming!
  67. Look Who's Talking
  68. Bruce Almighty (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  69. Down with Love (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  70. Catch Me If You Can (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  71. Elf (Infinifilm Edition) — Worth consuming!
  72. Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  73. Rain Man — Worth consuming!
  74. Forrest Gump (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  75. When Harry Met Sally... — Worth consuming!
  76. The Green Mile — Worth consuming!
  77. Toy Story 2 — Worth consuming!
  78. The Mighty Ducks
  79. Curly Sue — Worth consuming!
  80. Pretty Woman — Worth consuming!
  81. While You Were Sleeping — Worth consuming!
  82. Hook — Worth consuming!
  83. Monty Python's Life of Brian - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  84. Leon - The Professional (Uncut International Version) — Worth consuming!
  85. Airplane! — Worth consuming!
  86. Charade — Worth consuming!
  87. In the Bedroom — Worth consuming!
  88. Benny and Joon — Worth consuming!
  89. Angels in the Outfield — Worth consuming!
  90. Blast From the Past — Not worth consuming
  91. Almost Famous — Worth consuming!
  92. The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  93. Pretty in Pink — Worth consuming!
  94. Moulin Rouge! (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  95. American History X — Worth consuming!
  96. Braveheart — Worth consuming!
  97. The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  98. Kate & Leopold
  99. Wimbledon (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  100. About a Boy (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  101. Beauty and the Beast (Disney Special Platinum Edition) — Worth consuming!

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