**The Bucket List**

<p>What are some things you all would like to do/accomplish before you die?</p>

<li>Cross the Sahara Desert</li>
<li>Visit both Poles</li>
<li>Learn both Latin and Greek, and subsequently read stuff like the Iliad and the Odyssey, philosophical works, etc, in their original tongue.</li>
<li>Get my pilot’s license</li>
<li>Hit #1 on the NY Times Bestseller list</li>
</ol>

<p>and that is certainly not exhaustive haha.</p>

<p>1) Skydiving
2) Run a marathon
3) Master Spanish
4) Climb a mountain
5) Visit Spain</p>

<ul>
<li>Travel around the world</li>
</ul>

<p>I have a huge list of 114 things (and still growing) that I want to do. There was 119, but I've checked five of them off. It ranges from learning languages to beating specific video games to being a parent to traveling.</p>

<p>The ones I have checked off are:
-Have my portrait painted
-Drive a golf cart
-Own a kimono
-Go to Disneyworld
-See the Atlantic Ocean</p>

<p>Some of the ones still on the list are:
-Ride a mule down the Grand Canyon, then hike back up
-Play a gig with a jazz band
-Be a stay-at-home mom/housewife, even if just for a short time
-Ride in a limo
-Pet some sort of wild cat
-Memorize "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
-Do Relay for Life
-Stand in the four corners
-Ride the 10 tallest steel coasters in the world (1 down, 9 to go)
-Get over my intense dislike of guitars</p>

<p>gasp! youve never ridden in a limo? that's an easy one to do. just do it for prom this year :)</p>

<p>ew I can't stand that poem. I mean, I love Eliot's artistry, but it's just so bland. I much prefer the love sonnets of Shakespeare :)</p>

<p>an intense dislike of guitars??? where did that come from? childhood trauma? haha</p>

<ol>
<li>become immortal</li>
<li>skydive</li>
<li>become president</li>
<li>get a mansion with an indoor pool, secluded from society</li>
<li>sex</li>
<li>have a child, or 1000</li>
<li>clone myself and colonize mars with a bunch of me</li>
</ol>

<p>^^My prom was two years ago, in '06. Lol. :) And I can't go to my boyfriend's prom this year because I'll be 21 and won't be allowed in. But we went to my prom together and he doesn't really want to go to his so we're going to do something else. Maybe I can talk him into renting a limo for whatever we do. We'll see.</p>

<p>We had an extra-credit assignment in English my freshman year to copy that whole poem into our notebooks. It's kind of stuck with me ever since, so I want to memorize it. No real reason why. I actually hardly read poetry at all.</p>

<p>As for guitars, I just really really can't stand them. Acoustics are tolerable for a time, but electric guitars just... ugh. I can't stand them. I don't know why.</p>