This is an interesting meme I have seen at Rising to the occasion - feel free to tag yourself :)
(Bold the ones you've done)
1. Started my own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band (100-people orchestra better count)
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than I can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sung a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched lightning at sea
14. Taught myself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown my own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train (I don't think I can count how many times!)
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitchhiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping (ha!)
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of my ancestors (um... I grew up there!)
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught myself a new language (this would be how my English started...)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had my portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies (um, I didn't grow up in the U.S. - is this done anywhere else?)
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma (if you grew up in Europe, they won't let you.)
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp (a memorial of one of the bloodiest holocaust places should count. Also, my heart will always bleed for the victims of Holodomor, the 10 million Ukrainians that died of starvation in 1933 because the Soviet authorities were imposing their power by way of taking food away from people who grew it.)
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had my picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (only if fish counts)
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Ridden an elephant
The perverse incentives of academia
6 years ago
10 comments:
Cool! I am devoid of all original blogging ideas this week, so I'll do this one soon!
This meme strangely favors those who have been to London/Paris/Rome/etc. (not that I don't want to see all of those, but I haven't yet!!), so I suspect you will be marking a lot more items than me!
I was a wee bit surprised that you haven't been to Russia...
When I see that list I can invision the 1000 virtual 'shame on yous' I would receive when I posted it w/ approximately 1.5 bolded entries. Epic!
That's a fun one. I am in need of inspiration lately, so I will do it too.
Cath - haven't had the desire to visit a country that considers my country its appendage and its nation/language/etc superior to mine.
Hermitage - no comment :) (j/k)
AA - I hear you, too much going on this month for any coherent posting!
Well, I understand that... but sometimes it is necessary to visit certain places, regardless of desire. Conferences, cheaper flights out of bigger cities, etc.
I have neither actively avoided it nor actively tried to go. It's a 24 hour minimum train ride from where I grew up, so really not that close :)
LOL, yes that is too far.
When I lived in Scotland I knew several rabidly anti-English Scots who refused point blank to visit England - until they realised they could save substantial amounts of money if they took the train down to London and then flew from Heathrow. They still moaned about the effin' English people they met, how horrible everyone was, etc etc etc. You'd think the Battle of Falkirk happened in about 1992, the way some people go on...
(I can say that because I have some Scottish blood, to go with the 50% Irish and assorted other British variants)
I think as long as something happened before you life time, it may not really matter how long before - 10 or 1000 years :)
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