100 Things To Do In 2009

1. Think of 100 things to fill this list
2. Go to Glastonbury again
3. Learn to like real ale [Actually doing quite well at this]
4. Stop biting fingernails
5. Cut down on money spent in Delis and Patisseries
6. Appreciate Oxford whilst still there and stop complaining about it so much [Definitely did during Hilary, not so much during finals, but I think that is both understandableand permissable]
7. Get own apartment
8. Go on a ‘proper’ holiday with sun and all the trimmings
9. Tell them
10. See Stornoway again
11. Be an amazing uncle to first born niece/nephew
12. Go on a pub crawl in Bristol
13. Get a first in finals
14. Start a blog to keep in touch with people
15. Get a hairstyle that I actually like
16. Watch Le Château de ma mère with Catherine
17. Be on Radio 4 or the BBC World Service [this one may be tricky without becoming some kind of terrorist]
18. Catch-up with old school friends
19. Vote in a general election [too much shit has happened in 4 years to delay any longer]
20. Start buying the Big Issue again [haven’t bought one since the guy who recited Robert Burns on Broad St disappeared]
21. Recite Chaucer/Shakespeare/Ted Hughes to a field of cows
22. Keep my head when all about me are losing theirs
23. Read more poetry [In light of 20, 21, 22]
24. Visit Tate Modern
25. Think more about the person you could be and less about the person you used to be
26. Take pictures to document time left in Oxford.
27. Take up running again
28. Develop a daily routine to normalize days and reduce stress by more effective time management [This involved seeing more of the inside of the godless RSL]
29. Get a new mobile [the only speaker that works on the current one is the loud speaker, hence all calls are conducted in manner of Apprentice contestants]
30. Visit Katherine in Nottingham
31. Meet someone famous
32. Read Van Gogh’s letters [I bought a book of them almost 3 years ago that is just gathering dust]
33. Go on YouTube less [who am I kidding?]
34. Dance like no-one’s watching
35. Visit Scotland
36. Write a letter to and have it published in the Guardian
37. Watch the entire series of Flight of the Concords with Liz/Owen
38. Kiss in the pouring rain
39. Go to an Ashes match
40. Go fruit picking [An idyllic Oxford day post-exams, picking strawberries at Binsey Lane and having a BBQ on Port Meadow]
41. Have the time and patience to have wet shaves
42. Watch a sunrise
43. Do something outrageously spontaneous
44. Get a stranger to wave at me [I didn't so much get him to wave at me he did it of his own accord, he was just a crazy man in the park]
45. Do something that results in someone asking “Jimmy, what the fuck are you doing?”
46. Learn all the constellations
47. Play truth or dare
48. Whiten my teeth
49. Get a new tweed jacket
50. Forget my troubles and (come on) get happy!
51. Express my app/dep-reciation of someone’s choice of curtains to them
52. Lick the underside of an ice-cube
53. Drink orange juice from the wrong end of the carton
54. Buy an original piece of art
55. Make my own pesto
56. Hammer in the morning
57. Hammer in the evening
58. Join Amnesty International
59. Go to evensong at a Cathedral (or St Mary’s the Virgin)
60. Get drunk on cocktails
61. Win the Gardener’s pub quiz
62. Climb a mountain (or at least a large hill)
63. Start writing more ‘stuff’ down
64. Find 5 artists on MySpace with less than 50,000 hits who I think are cool.
65. Bake a cake for someone
66. Ride in a open-top bus
67. Have a heated debate [I was drunk and no-one else was - it was heated in mymind but no-one elses I imagine]
68. Plant a time capsule
69. Cry with laughter
70. Cry with sadness
71. Visit Kathy in Milton Keynes
72. Budget using an Excel spreadsheet
73. Buy something from Ikea
74. Read Marx
75. Get a new set of spectacles
76. Try wearing contact lenses
77. See Jeffrey Lewis
78. Sit in a meadow on a summer’s day
79. Complement and give money to a busker
80. Make the effort to recycle my rubbish
81. Write letters to 3 people
82. Remember people’s birthdays
83. Have a shower fully clothed
84. Get an Oyster card
85. Cook something out of Nigella or Hugh FW’s Guardian column
86. Have a moment which reminds me how good it feels to be alive
87. Read for pleasure during term time
88. Ride on a narrow boat
89. See Rufus’s opera Prima Donna
90. Go for High Tea at a posh café/restaurant
91. Tell someone exactly what I think of them
92. Dance and sing with some Hare Krishnas
93. Pretend to be foreign tourist for a day
94. Be caught in a compromising situation
95. Scream at the top of my voice
96. Do a tarot reading [so vague that it was not worth doing]
97. Go to watch either the Boat Race or Varsity Rugby match
98. Start using fabric softener
99. Buy a scratch card
100. Say something so profound that I impress myself