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Deadline: December 31, 2009

  • Take guitar lessons
  • Take at least one culinary class at Cooks Warehouse
    (Took a Winter Vegetarian Meals class at the end of January and found out that after I take the volunteer orientation course and a knife skills class I can volunteer and earn store credit to use towards cool gadgets or taking more classes. Since I literally drool over all their course descriptions but don’t have enough money to afford all the classes I want to take, I will be volunteering to earn credits. As of March I have enrolled in both the volunteer orientation and the knife skills class as well as enrolled in a class this summer taught by Tre Wilcox of Top Chef fame.)
  • Take a photography course
  • Motorcyle license
  • Boat license
  • International driving permit (deferred for now because permits are only valid for 1 year)
  • Complete one painting
  • Complete Creative Memories baby album
  • Sell at least 5 photographs
  • Knit something (scarf? socks? blanket?)
  • Sell an article for publication (travel, etc?)
  • Grow blog to 300 visitors per day or 100 subscribers
  • Read 12 books throughout the year:
      4 “self-help”

    1. Getting Things Done (own)
    2. Your Money or Your Life (library)
    3. 4 Hour Work Week (own)
    4. Women Who Run with the Wolves (own)

      4 classics

    1. Brave New World (own)
    2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (own)
    3. Little Women (library)
    4. The Awakening (own) (I technically finished this book somewhere in Patagonia before the end of 2008.)
    5. Anna Karenina (started in Argentina)

      4 contemporary novels

    1. 3 Cups of Tea (Katharina)
    2. My Friend Leonard (library)
    3. Reading Lolita in Tehran (library)
    4. Vagabonding (library)
  • Volunteer once a month
    (As of January I have been volunteering once a week as an English teacher with a local nonprofit organization. I plan on continuing to do this for the remainder of the year as well as finding another project to volunteer with over the summer.)
  • Secure an internship with either CARE, Amnesty Int’l, Jimmy Carter Center, or NCUSAR
  • Visit Israel
  • Give 10% of every paycheck for tzedakah