- List five things you'd like to accomplish by the end of the year.
- Lose another 20 pounds (I've lost about 15 in the past 3 weeks on the Atkins diet).
- Finish the three books I'm currently reading and read another.
- Apply for the Masters program in voice at the conservatories that interest me.
- Watch LotR:RotK on opening day/night.
- Finish the networking course (TCP/IP, DNS, Bind, etc.) I am taking.
- List five people you've lost contact with that you'd like to hear from again.
- My Uncle Glenn and Aunt Ilse. They really count as one because I think of them as a unit. I know how to get in touch with them; I've just been awful about it.
- Bryan Kemp, one of my best friends from my childhood in Panamá.
- Elsa Kaplan-Vass, my fifth grade teacher. Again, this is my fault, as I am horrible about writing snail mail letters. I haven't seen or talked to her in about 5 years.
- Nate Alexander, a friend from college. We drove cross country from Amherst, MA, to Yakima, WA, one spring, and I got to know him better in those three days.
- Mary Keldsen, a brief but intense romance from college. I fumbled the ball on this, because she was Asian (half Filipino, half Chinese) and at the time I was very insecure about that.
- List five things you'd like to learn how to do.
- Program in Java. I've got the books; just have to find the time.
- Speak French/German/Italian fluently. Yes, I need these for my music, but the reasons for wanting to learn these languages goes beyond music.
- Play the guitar. I took lessons for a few weeks as a kid, but tried to learn on an steel-stringed guitar instead of nylon-stringed, and as an uncallused kid that was too much.
- Dance. Well, that is. I'm okay as long as I'm not leading a partner, because I have a good sense of rhythm, but I'd like to be able to grab a lady and spin her around the dance floor (swing, salsa, waltz, tango, whatever) and leave her wowed.
- Build my own computer(s).
- List five things you'd do if you won the lottery (no limit).
- Buy the San Diego Chargers and get them to start doing things the right way.
- Buy an island on the Pacific side of Panamá, far from the capital or any large population center. Build a nice, eco-friendly home with satellite t.v. (for my football fix), internet, and access to lots of books for reading on the beach or in my hammock.
- Travel to every place in the world I've ever wanted to travel to. And really get to know each place.
- Find a cause I feel particularly strongly about and set up some sort of charity fund for it.
- Open a restaurant specializing in Panamanian cuisine and find someone to run it for me.
- List five things you do that help you relax.
- Listen to music.
- Make silly sounds.
- Play games.
- Get hour-and-a-half to two-hour massages.
- Close my eyes.
I'd be curious to see your answers, either in my comments section or in your own journal.
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