Goals

Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.  ~Doug Larson

SOME IDEAS FOR SUMMER 2009
Travel plans have changed since arriving in Morocco. I want to explore Central Europe more, starting perhaps in Tallinn and making my way down to Greece by land, ending up in Berlin and then Amsterdam to attend Theresa’s and Andreas’ wedding in Leipzig. No money = wwoofing, volunteering, hostelling, couchsurfing, working. As only have 10 weeks will have to probably cut some countries and spend longer in certain key areas, like the Balkans, Berlin, and Vienna. Also I have the option of staying in Morocco for a few more weeks and taking Intensive Arabic at a local language school, an option that is popular in Spain and Morocco, from what I hear. Updates will follow as wallet dwindles.

GOALS FOR LIFE
-Play in a stone water fountain. 
-Wear pajamas in public. 
-Make a summer dress. Design, buy the fabric, cut and sew together. 
-Drink Brazilian coffee all night while studying / dreaming / writing / chatting. 
-Laugh until I spray milk up my nose. I have done meatballs, but I feel that it doesn’t have the same effect as liquid. plus i bet it hurts a lot worse.
-Spend the early morning hours innocently chatting with a stranger. 
-Go caroling. Maybe with friends, in summer. 
-Walk on hot coals. This gives me shivers every time I think about it. I have to do it!
-Design my dream home, build it, live in it. I know a number of people who have done this. Their homes are always to beautiful, there is so much love put into it. 
-Build a treehouse!!
-Learn how to synchronize swim. sounds lame? it’s awesome!
-Achieve Enlightenment. still working on this one. expect to be finished sometime next millenium. So stay tuned. 
-Practice capoeira at dawn on the beaches of Bahia.
-See Othello at the Rose. I tried to do this last summer, but weather wasn’t permitting. 
-Live in: Malta, UK, Marrakesh, Vienna, Hong Kong, Tunis, Tbilisi, Sana’a, Buenos Aires. 
-Take a mud bath! (maybe in Iceland?)
-Swim in hot springs. 
-Crew a canoe around the Hawaiian Islands. 
-Swim in a bioluminescent bay. I’ve heard these are in Greece, particularly around Corfu. 
-Rename a city. 
-Race on a camel. Maybe a Bactrian. (i’ve only ridden an Arabian camel)
-Smell the biggest flower in the world, the Rafflesia Arnoldii.
-Explore the underground souq in Tunis. 
-Crew a norse vessel in a fjord. 
-Have my portrait done. I was supposed to have this done a few years ago. Unfortunately the artist, a local painter known as Kathy Long, is always terribly busy with commissions. 
-Live as a hermit for a year. We’re talking me, in a cave or hole, secluded, books, candle, and my own intellect. 
-See someone born. 
-Learn to play the guitar, harmonica, and duduk. 
-Visit every castle of King Ludwig II. 
-Dance on a tightrope. 
-Participate in the Mongol Rally
-Do a pilgrimage following the footsteps of Xuanzang, Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo, and Ulysseus.
-Establish my own hobby/business of Steampunk inventions. 
-Ride the Orient Express from end to end. 
-Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia. 
-Memorize an epic poem. 
-Go insane. ….I might have already done this…?…
-Explain Quantum Theory. I believe in it. It sounds fucking awesome. I can’t explain it to save my life. 
-Blow glass. 
-Become an expert on bridges. Call it an eccentric hobby??
-Learn how to landscape professionally. More scary hobbies. 
-Disappear into a tree. 
-Make a documentary. Not a student film. There’s a big difference. 
-Be an extra on a film. 
-Learn how to cook delicious, sensual, succulent foods. 
-Sit on a Jury. 
-Learn slight-of-hand and juggling. 
-See an Edelweiss growing on a mountaintop. 
-Learn how to say the alphabet backwards really fast. 
-Brew cider. I met this little Frenchman who could brew killer cider. I’ve been addicted ever since. 
-Be sexy. Be ugly. 
-Make a Gingerbread House. I have actually never done this. 
-Send a postcard to postsecret. 
-Learn how to pilot. hopefully my stepdad will teach me!
-Create something with old scraps of metal.
-Kiss a girl passionately.
-Ice sail across a frozen lake.
-Chase a storm.
-Serenade a lover.
-Whitewater Raft.
-Shot Over Jet Boat!
-Dive for Treasure in the Caribbean. 
-Landsail! (this sounds so awesome)
-Learn how to survive on the water.
-Cameo in a British detective or comedy miniseries. 
-Paintball. 
-Motorcycle across Central Asia. Perhaps from Turkey to Korea. 
-Strip.
-Learn all the names of all the countries and their capitals. 
-Shoot off a huge fireworks display by myself. 
-Stay at the world’s only six-star hotel. (in Dubai)
-Ice Hotel. Sweden. I have some good friends who’ve stayed there. sounds otherworldly. 
-Love with abandon. 
-More roof picnics! (im thinking fried shrimp. or shrimp tempura.)
-rockclimb
-see the original geyser in iceland
-send a message in a bottle
-learn how to dance salsa
-visit washington d.c. and see all the america stuff
-read thoreau at walden pond
-go to concentration camp
-take a cruise
-go to the horse races
-enact a fantasy
-visit every country in the world
-the seven world wonders
-drive-in theatre
-have a food fight
-photocopy my butt
-fit 3 weeks into 3 days
-have an accent for a day
-model for artists
-defend someone’s honor
-survive without food for a week
-follow a band on tour
-have my picture in the paper
-go to the circus
-see cirque de soleil (different from just the circus)
-trust someone
-philanthropize
-Make black powder
-learn leatherwork
-learn printmaking
-learn macramé
Meet someone from Tibet
Talk to a Buddhist monk
Publish a collection of books!
Pay off all debts
Visit NY
Go to every country in the world
Explore the world outside the box
Take a dance class
Decorate the walls with my photography
Grow an herb garden
Ride a train up to Montreal!
Read a bunch of short stories
Watch a snuff film
Paintball
Go orange-picking
Visit Zihuatanejo
Learn German, Italian, French, Japanese, ASL
Get into old classic films
Become an expert of wwi aircraft
Stowaway
Figure out squash? (the game, not the fruit)
Bleach my hair
Get ordained as a minister (ministress?)
Have sex in anti-gravity
Be a pole dancer for a night
Have a lesbian tryst
Be a metrosexual
Take underwater pictures yeah!
Kiss a complete stranger
Break into a house
Slap someone with a glove
Slap someone with a fish
Hit on the pizza guy
Sell myself on ebay
Have a moment with a gorilla
Testify
Tattoo a rubedo on myself
Learn coin manipulation
Make fried ice cream
Exorcise a ghost
Meet a witch
Meet the president
Keep an owl
And a hamster!
And a bunny!
And a doggie!
And a kitty!
And a tortoise!
See a total solar eclipse!
Make crème brulée
Make soufflé (a good one!)
Teach a class
Housesit
Gamble in Las Vegas with my auntie
Host travelers!
Smoke a Cuban cigar
Own a locker
Listen to a painting
Walk around like a tourist in my hometown
Dissemble a clock
Go to horology school!
Speak in Clockwork Orangese
Check out the Portland Sewers
Play a card game in a pool
Build a house out of toothpicks
Make napalm?! (you can do that?)
Memorize the Qu’ran
Type with my toes!
Figure out Existentialism
Have a shoe bronzed
Put my feet behind my head
Get a girl’s number (I mean like picking up a girl)
Have rum or gin for breakfast
Give off a “sexy professor vibe”
Make something cool out of burlap
Become a Prankmaster!
Find the perfect kiss
Ice blocking!
Ice fishing!
Move to southeast asia!
Grow a crystal
Sterilize something with alcohol
Dial-A-Prayer
Be part of a stage audience
Do a table sweep
Jump off a bridge
Buy my mom a harp and teach her how to play it
Kick back in Malta.
Get one of those cute black hats like Alexa has
Meet Reese Witherspoon
Go down a waterfall
Throw a party
Sail a junk
Read the “World’s Great Thinkers” quartet
Be published
Shoot a gun
Explore a sewer system
Throw a dart into a map and travel to where it lands
Bodypaint

-disappear…

Of course, hang out in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, Venice for Carnevale, Munich for Oktoberfest, Spain for the bull race….