365 Top Ten Lists. This is my project for 2010.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Ten Ways in Which I Could Daily Work Towards Completing my One Hundred and One Things to Do Before I Die.

1. Write a little every day. Goes toward: 4. Be a true and soulful poet; 32. Write at least one travel book (and get it published)—a good one; 34. Write songs—at least one of which gets sung by someone and makes it onto the airways; 61. Write a TV series as fabulous as 'Buffy'; 73. Write and publish at least one erotic novel; 76. Write a book about lists (I love lists); 101. Write a novel.
2. Laugh. Goes toward: 58. Laugh a lot.
3. Do yoga. Goes toward: 14. Join and stay in a yoga class until I am super zen and super flexible.
4. Make sure I am being a good friend. Goes toward: 5. Cultivate, keep and protect four to five good friends.
5. Don't sit around on the couch eating bad food. Goes toward: 6. Get to and stay at size 14-16 so that I can go into most shops without feeling like a fool.
6. Like myself—say something nice maybe. Goes toward: 48. Accept that I am a square peg in a round hole; 97. Be the person my dog thinks I am.
7. Carry my passport where ever I go, in case .... Goes toward: 18. get a taxi to the airport and buy a ticket for the next international flight leaving.
8. Read a little every day. Goes toward: 40. Read at least a hundred books a year.
9. Make the most of now, it's all I have. Goes towards: 44. Carpe Diem.
10. Sew, knit, embroider, use my hands. Goes toward: 21. Have a mixed media fabby book published by Phaidon or Thames and Hudson; 64. Make body jewellery sculpture; 66. Make my own clothes (one item a month is not too much to ask for, is it?); 75. Make all the presents I give to people; 94. Make a quilt.

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