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101 things, coursing myself

Hello! I have settled on these at last! I have dated this entry to the day it is all "due".

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FOOD AND DRINK: CONSUMING
1. Eat vegetarian for a month (July 2011)
2. Eat vegan for a month
3. Get up early and make and eat breakfast every day for a week
4. Pack my lunch every day for a month
5. Eat a food that makes me nervous (August 26, 2011 - chicken feet at Tuli)
6. Eat at the Fat Duck
7. Have champagne tea somewhere nice (August 21, 2011 at the Lanesborough for my 25th birthday)
8. Drink every real ale on tap at a pub
9. Leave off alcohol except for weekends and festivals for two months
10. Leave off processed sugars for two weeks

FOOD AND DRINK: CREATING
11. Make five different kinds of ice cream/sorbet - basil ice cream, cherry brandy ice cream, chili chocolate ice cream, kiwi sorbet (all July 2011), coriander ice cream (Sept 2011)
12. Make cinnamon rolls
13. Create a full set of Tu b'Shevat cocktails
14. Cook a different meal five nights out of one week
15. Cook three different things with tofu - Thai green curry (June 30 2011)
16. Grow garlic and cook with it
17. Make paneer cheese
18. Cook a six-course dinner for other people
19. Have one World Cuisine dinner with Jenny & Josh a month - ongoing as of Sept 2011

CLOTHING
20. Don't buy any new clothes for two months
21. Find a swimsuit I feel comfortable and happy wearing (July 29, 2011)

OTHER BODY THINGS
22. Get 8.5 hours of sleep five nights a week for eight weeks
23. Create a healthy workspace for home
24. Walk to or from work
25. Lift weights three times a week for three months
26. Floss every day for a month
27. Have a pedicure (June 3, 2011)
28. Play in a recreational football game
29. Get ADHD diagnosis sorted (or not)
30. Take a random day off work to relax and do whatever I like

WRITING
31. Write 15 articles for RGL - 2/15
32. Get paid for published writing
33. Write for Yuletide without defaulting (2011)
34. Write for the Historiesathon without defaulting (Sept 1, 2011)
36. Write down 15 things I am awesome at
37. Attend a writer's retreat

MUSIC
38. Learn 15 more Jewy songs on fiddle - 2/15
39. Learn to play 20 tunes on whistle
40. Sing karaoke in public, not just with other people in a booked room
41. Play a public gig (Big Bang doesn't count)
42. Go swing dancing socially (August 12, 2011 in Paternoster Square)

INTERNET
42. Figure out what to do with myfullname.com, and do it (November 2011)
43. Learn SQL properly
44. Build a Shakespeare histories casting generator
45. Make a Shakespeare fanfic AU generator
46. Figure out how to generate Bardcamp scripts for e-readers
47. Make that vid

OTHER MEDIA
48. Watch a film from five different MENA countries
49. Buy one book off my Amazon wishlist a month for a year and read it - started June 2011 
50. Read 101 books (at least 70 ALL THE WAY TO THE END) - 18/101 (16/70)
51. Take a drawing class
52. Draw full costume sketches from Hadestown
53. Write all wedding thank-you cards (October 2011)
54. Go to a British Museum late opening evening (July 8, 2011, a medieval-themed one)

JEW STUFF
55. Work on Hebrew for half an hour six days a week for a month
56. Give a dvar Torah at Kollot (December 10, 2011)
57. Read from Torah at Alyth
58. Observe all major and minor fast days for a year (2011-2012)
59. Go to a Spurs football game
60. Write a comprehensive essay about Jewish atheist theology
61. Read every book of the Bible and blog My Thoughts About Them And Things
62. Earn Jewish Studies A-level
63. Kosher my kitchen
64. Have a halachically chametz-free house for Pesach
65. Host a seder
66. Stay up all night study partying for Shavuot

READTHROUGHS/PARTIES
67. Have a theme birthday party (August 20, 2011 - 1985/6 theme; I dressed as the Schengen Agreement)
68. Write a murder mystery and host it
69. Finish our excellent household D&D game (August 29, 2011)
70. Readthrough all Shakespeare plays ever
71. Play Margaret in the Histories (January 19-22, 2011)
72. Co-organise full Histories readthrough
73. Organise Slings & Arrows readthrough
74. Organise Slings & Arrows marathon weekend
75. Organise queer Guys and Dolls readthrough/singthrough
76. Adapt Kiss Me, Kate so it is less sexist and have a singthrough
77. Finish adapting Hedda and have a readthrough

TRAVEL
78. Visit the Tower of London
79. Take the Eurostar to a holiday
80. Go for five rural walks - 1/5
81. Visit Israel
82. Visit Croatia
83. Go camping twice
84. Go wine tasting in New Zealand
85. Go wine tasting in Kent (October 1, 2011)
86. Swim in the Mediterranean
87. Swim in the Atlantic (June 7, 2011 in Cascais)
88. Row a boat

MONEY
89. Earn at least 7% more than current salary
90. Put £200 into student loans a month for a year
91. Pay off $8,000 of student loans - $2,858.50/$8,000 as of January 21, 2012
92. Make monthly budget and stick to it for six months - budget must involve at least 10% to charity and £150 into student loans
93. Get a credit card and pay it off on time every month to build up Good Credit - have BA American Express card which I am also using to rack up air miles

MAJOR LIFE CHANGES
94. Have fun big wedding (June 5, 2011) (yay!)
95. Have a massive fuck-off declutter of everything I own
96. Move to a house in North London with a study/music room (January 8, 2012)
97. Pass Life in the UK test (November 18, 2011)
98. Earn a new job title
99. Become a British citizen
100. Make a will
101. Come up with another 101 things to do when finished.