Inspired by Maggie Mason’s 100 things to do before I go.

1. Set up file sharing between my Mac and my netbook
2. Make gnocchi gorgonzola from scratch
3. Host my own seder
4. Hang shelves in my bedroom
5. Go to grad school
6. Pay off my grad school loans (working on it)
7. Own a globe
8. Adopt a pet (oh hello, George Margot Kitty)
9. Take a dance class
10. Make a cake with more than two layers (proof)
11. Pick berries
12. Make jam with said berries
13. Can (well, technically, jar) things:
    1. jam
    2. homemade Sriracha
    3. homemade barbecue sauce
14. Frame and hang a set of art and photos, like this (voila!)
15. Go camping in the snow
16. Attend TED (starting with TEDxCambridge)
17. Live in Uganda for a year
18. Go back to Uganda
19. Go back again
20. Ride the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Lake Baikal
21. Swim in Lake Baikal
22. Switch to the Trans-Mongolian and continue to Beijing
23. Visit zoos in 10 different countries (so far: Chile, Guatemala, Netherlands, Uganda, United States)
24. Ride trains in 20 different countries (so far: Bosnia, Croatia, Canada, France, Hungary, Netherlands, Russia, United States)
25. Go to Zanzibar
26. Ride in a dhow
27. Have a favorite cocktail (currently: a tie between Death in the Gulf Stream and The Burlington)
28. Learn how to make five cocktails from memory
29. Have a barista offer me “the usual” at a coffee shop
30. Work at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
31. Go to SXSW
32. Teach a university course
33. Experience white nights
34. Give a professional (i.e., not for class) presentation/talk in a language other than English
35. Published an article in the Economist
36. Visit the Kalahari Desert
37. Learn how to whistle (note: I have been trying for 20 years. I think this will be the hardest thing on this list to accomplish)
38. Learn how to do a handstand
39. Successfully operate a parachute
40. Stop being afraid of spiders
41. See Samarkand
42. Make homemade pad thai that tastes better than (good) restaurant pad thai (amazingly, a vegetarian version of Alton Brown’s recipe was the winner)
43. Learn how to make Massaman curry from scratch
44. Learn how to play the harmonica
45. Learn how to play the guitar
46. Live in New York City
47. Spend a week as a vegan
48. Successfully climb a volcano
49. Road trip up (or down) the West Coast
50. Spend a month offline
51. Go on a weekend yoga retreat
52. Be able to hold Chaturanga Dandasana for 10 seconds
53. Learn how to bake a consistently, solidly delicious loaf of bread off the cuff, sans recipe
54. Teach someone how to bake a consistently, solidly delicious loaf of bread off the cuff, sans recipe
55. Go backpacking
56. Own a swing (rope, tire, or porch)
57. Own a hammock (in college; sadly no longer in my apartment)
58. Own another hammock (mission accomplished)
59. Read 100 books in one year
60. Take 1000 photos in one year
61. Wear plaid
62. Chop (almost) all my hair off
63. Grow vegetables
64. Submit an idea to Radiolab that makes it onto the show
65. Take a vacation that involves buying a last-minute plane ticket at the airport
66. Practice yoga at least once a week for a year (thank you, O2)
67. Take my niece + nephew on a trip abroad
68. Spend an afternoon at a Turkish bath, in Turkey
69. Burning Man
70. Run a half marathon
71. Learn to like poached eggs (turns out I just needed to, you know, try one)
72. Learn to make poached eggs
73. Run The Other Half
74. Run an obstacle race
75. Try 15 new vegetables (so far: okra)
76. Complete a triathlon
77. Run a marathon (eep)