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Approximately 29 things I would like to think I'll do in the next five years

 


1. Gain more energy
2. See the back of workmen and repairers (ref long-running saga concerning my home)
3. Read books again w/o sneaking a look at the internet every few minutes
4. See some kind of dent on the mortgage debt
5. Become reacquainted with my paints and pastels
6. Somehow make domestic chores just come naturally
7. Quit you, SU (but tks, you’re helping me with V4)
8. Reacquaint myself with my home country, New Zealand — ie travel more, beyond seeing friends and family

9. Develop a writing style
10. Clean out my wardrobe
11. Learn to trust people more
12. Write about my travels
13. Write about the follies of internet romance (admittedly MY follies)
14. Get back into the clothes I was wearing two, three, four years ago (10 would be pushing it)
15. See justice for Palestinians



16. Own an iTablet, or whatever Apple decides to call its electonic reader
17. Visit the Adirondacks, New England and Canada’s Maritime Provinces
18. Pay off my credit card and kiss Amex goodbye forever

19. Visit Snezana in Serbia
20. Visit Cloggo in Yorkshire, the Forest hippies in Lancashire and Johnshaven’s clan in Scotland
21. Decide what to do with the 15 boxes of books I have been storing since last year
22. Watch the entire BBC series The Pallisers again
23. Find a video game that doesn’t frustrate me (besides Hangman)
24. Buy a couch (good enough to lie in)
25. Go to Texas and meet Red, Imallforfrogs, Mike and a few others
26. Read more about the people who immigrated or were sent to the antipodes in the 19th c (books, not internet)
27. Get good — and fast — at photo editing
28. Develop my own art techniques combining old media and the iPod Touch
29. Learn more about my maternal family history

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