Dammitall

I made a bucket list in college for my now-dead website. It's interesting for me to compare the list I made back then with the one that's come together more recently. These two lists are not mutually exclusive.

The college-era "someday I will..." bucket list: (* = done)

1. abandon technology for a while
2. adopt a dog*
3. audition for a conservatory
4. be on time for everything
5. become a teacher
6. build a treehouse
7. break the law
8. buy a drumset
9. compose a haiku*
10. cook a seven-course meal
11. count to a million
12. cure my apathy
13. do a cartwheel
14. donate blood
15. drink a margarita*
16. drive cross-country
17. eat a pomegranate*
18. fly a kite*
19. finish what I've started
20. fire a gun* (thanks, Crompsin!)
21. go skinnydipping*
22. have a daughter
23. hike the Appalachian Trail
24. host my own radio show*
25. howl at the moon*
26. kill this website*
27. learn American Sign Language
28. let my students call me by my first name
29. love my job
30. make snowmen and sandcastles
31. marry the love of my life
32. master the art of kissing
33. meet all you internet people*
34. misspell my name
35. navigate whitewater in a kayak
36. paint my shoes
37. pee in a sink
38. perform in Carnegie Hall
39. play an electric violin
40. publish a book
41. read a dictionary
42. ride a motorcycle*
43. see the Northern Lights
44. shave my head*
45. sing in public
46. sleep in a hammock*
47. speak French
48. stop traffic
49. survive a tornado
50. swim with dolphins
51. swing on a vine
52. take up photography
53. taste escargot*
54. tattoo my body
55. throw a football*
56. touch a wild bird*
57. tour the British Isles
58. walk barefoot in Africa
59. wear a tuxedo
60. wield a sword
61. witness a birth and a death*
62. write a song

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My contemporary bucket list:

- Harness my temper
- Express my frustrations, instead of holding them in
- Quit being a TV/internet vegetable
- Make better use of my time overall
- Eat clean (cut out processed foods)
- Bench, squat and deadlift my bodyweight
- Master the unassisted pullup and dip
- Increase sprinting speed, throwing speed & strength, and improve running stamina
- Learn to drive stick shift
- Be financially stable and comfortable
- Spend less/buy less/waste less
- Downsize my material posessions
- Turn the house into a "home" with remodeling and redecorating
- Keep it clean and organized on a regular basis
- Read more books (yes, there's a list of those)
- Write more
- Draw more (take art classes)
- Play more music (learn the Shostakovich, Sibelius and Tchaikowsky violin concertos, all movements from Bach's unaccompanied sonatas and partitas and the Fauré violin sonata)
- Learn/get trained in web programming languages
- Learn Flash
- Redesign and relaunch my website as a creative outlet, repository for my written work and design portfolio, and job marketability tool
- Create a database of every piece of music I've ever played and put it on my website
- Spend more time outside doing things I love and things I've never done but want to try (cycling, hiking, downhill skiing, snowshoeing, rock climbing, kayaking, backpacking/camping, softball, tennis, frisbee)
- Get trained in martial arts/self-defense
- Upgrade my bicycle
- Participate in a cyclocross racing event
- Walk the Old Main Line right of way
- Travel to the Western United States, Alaska, Greece, the British Isles, Austria, Australia and New Zealand
- Change my career significantly at least once or twice

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If one million people replaced a two mile car trip once a week with a bike ride, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 50,000 tons per year. If one out of ten car commuters switched to a bike, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 25.4 million tons per year. [2milechallenge.com]