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One Day

x get a puppy
- go sky diving
x travel to Japan
- learn to sew
- go on a safari (primarily to take photos)
- bungee jumping
- go luging
- holiday at the Bahamas
- use a waterfall as a shower
- marvel The Ring Road in person
- experience weightlessness
x road trip!
- learn to handstand and/or cartwheel
- be able to do the splits again
- go white water rafting
- get a photo taken of me at Pisa
- paragliding
- visit the Mona Lisa
- swim in the Devil's Pool (might never have the guts for that one because natural dangers scare me the most)
- attend a music festival in a foreign country
- photograph the Taj Mahal
- shop in London
- Machu Picchu, Peru. Need I say more?
- see La Mezquita
- take a ride on the Steel Dragon 2000
- chill in Malmö public library
Hell yeah.

Books

Currently Reading:
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Year of Our War by Steph Swainston
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
The Odyessy by Homer

Wishlist:
The Remains of the Day by Kuzuo Ishiguro
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Ulysses by James Joyce
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Shakespeare's Sonnets Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine
Junky by William S Burroughs
Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky By Heidi W. Durrow

Read(that's past tense):

2011
The History of Medicine by W.F. Bynum
Madness by Roy Porter
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Marukami
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

2010
Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Long Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Hard Times by Charles Dickens Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
The Little Prince by Atoine de Saint-Exupery
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracey Chevalier Triage by Scott Anderson
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan.
The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
After Dark by Haruki Marukami
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

2009 and earlier (off the top of my head)
Never Let Me Go by Kuzuo Ishiguro
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Merchent of Venice by Shakespeare
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Night by Elie Wiesel
1984 by George Orwell
How To Make a Bird by Martine Murray
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
White Fang by Jack London

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Saturday, November 28, 2009

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