things to do before I'm dead and/or old

  • travel as much as possible
  • live in a houseboat
  • learn how to play guitar
  • get a replica of a lyre and learn how to play it
  • get a tattoo
  • get a corset piercing for a special occasion
  • dye my hair green (I've had my hair blue, purple, pink, red, and so on, but never green)
  • learn how to sail
  • volunteer at an elephant sanctuary
  • visit the Galapagos
  • get an iguana
  • touch a whale shark
  • learn how to cook something that doesn't entail a microwave and/or pasta and/or sandwiches
  • learn to sew
  • actually create an indie videogame
  • smoke opium
  • visit Morocco and carry a teddy bear named Aloysius with me AT ALL TIMES
  • scuba dive
  • visit the Catacombs of Paris
  • meet David Bowie (this should probably be #1 on my list)
  • meet Irene Papas
  • organize a house concert
  • watch the sun rise from as many rooftops as possible
  • jump into as many bodies of water as possible interesting bodies of water (and not drown)
  • swim across a river
  • visit the graves of my favourite poets, artists, etc. (take lipstick to Paris) (so far: Marc Bolan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Shelley, John Keats, Joseph Severn, Arthur Severn, Edward John Trelawny. ♥)
  • learn how to put on eyeliner without poking my eye out
  • make a garland of flowers
  • camp on the beach
  • touch a fox
  • drink bubble tea
  • learn how to surf
  • find out if there really is a tunnel in the Tube that leads to the Egyptian room
  • get a septum piercing, at least for a while
  • become a vegan
  • actually touch a Shelley manuscript (bribe someone with my kidney)
  • see the inside of the Villa Diodati
  • tell ghost stories in Geneva accomplished: August 2011
  • try laudanum
  • watch a volcanic eruption
  • visit Pompeii
  • read Homer in the supposed site of Troy
  • learn Thai
  • actually figure out how to write in Chinese (I took Mandarin in my first year of college. I couldn't remember anything except those little splashes you can add to some characters to mean they're related to water)
  • actually pass Ancient Greek (after freshman year, I mean) accomplished!
  • translate Plato
  • go to a Lesbian club in Lesvos (get it? AHAHA I'm so funny) <-- bonus points for kissing a cute girl
  • Chateau Peyraguey with strawberries
  • see all my favourite paintings and sculptures and cry a little (somewhat accomplished, but obviously still in progress)
  • set up a lightfoot (sustainable post) box 
  • Wine tasting!
  • Try Fragolino (I kind of did in Rome. It's not the actual Fragolino, though, just wine with the strawberry flavouring added.)
  • Work as a life model for a while
  • Play the accordion

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