Mary Hawkins in 2006

2006 was 98% worth living.

In 2005, Mary Hawkins did 1476 things, went 821 places, met 13 people, and consumed 2088 products.

Years: 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. publish a knitting pattern — completed about 1 month later
  2. own my own home — completed about 1 month later
  3. do my taxes — completed about 1 month later
  4. Dye my hair a crazy color — completed about 1 month later
  5. Learn to knit — completed about 1 month later
  6. be straight edge — completed about 1 month later
  7. draw every day — completed about 1 month later
  8. Learn Maya — completed about 1 month later
  9. do stop-motion animation — completed about 1 month later
  10. learn motion graphics — completed about 1 month later
  11. knit a clapotis — completed about 1 month later
  12. knit something — completed about 1 month later
  13. finish the knitting olympics — completed about 1 month later
  14. get health insurance — completed about 1 month later
  15. write and submit a pattern to knitty — completed about 1 year later
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Walt Disney World — visited 2 months later
  2. Cadiz — visited 2 months later
  3. Gettysburg — visited 3 months later
  4. Pittsburgh — visited 3 months later
  5. Magnolia Bakery — visited 3 months later
  6. Florida — visited 4 months later
  7. Montana — visited 6 months later
  8. Seattle — visited 9 months later
  9. British Museum — visited 9 months later
  10. Kamakura — visited 9 months later
  11. Wien — visited about 1 year later
  12. Maryville
  13. Legoland
  14. Finland
  15. Sweden
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Ethiopia — Worth visiting!
  2. Egypt — Worth visiting!
  3. Alt.Coffee — Worth visiting!
  4. Rijksmuseum — Worth visiting!
  5. Bloemenmarkt — Worth visiting!
  6. The Great Pyramid of Giza — Worth visiting!
  7. Dam — Worth visiting!
  8. Luxor — Worth visiting!
  9. al-Qāhirah (Cairo) — Worth visiting!
  10. Karnak — Worth visiting!
  11. Valley Of The Kings — Worth visiting!
  12. Addis Ababa — Worth visiting!
  13. The Temple Of Luxor — Worth visiting!
  14. Khan El-Kalil — Worth visiting!
  15. Coptic Cairo — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Ghost World — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Fever To Tell — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. eXistenZ — Worth consuming!
  2. Run Lola Run — Worth consuming!
  3. 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  4. Happy Together — Worth consuming!
  5. Alphaville - Criterion Collection — Not worth consuming
  6. Walk the Line — Worth consuming!
  7. Buffalo '66 — Worth consuming!
  8. La Femme Nikita (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Blue Velvet — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. practice discardia — completed 28 days later
  2. see the pyramids — completed 9 months later
  3. figure out what the hell happened to that big fat tax return check I was supposed to get... — completed about 1 year later
  4. lower my grocery bill without compromising what I eat — completed over 2 years later
  5. grow my hair long — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. publish a knitting pattern — Worth doing!
  2. own my own home — Worth doing!
  3. do my taxes — Worth doing!
  4. eat grits — Worth doing!
  5. Join flickr — Worth doing!
  6. Dye my hair a crazy color — Worth doing!
  7. Learn to knit — Worth doing!
  8. be straight edge — Worth doing!
  9. draw every day — Worth doing!
  10. Learn Maya — Worth doing!
  11. do stop-motion animation — Worth doing!
  12. learn motion graphics — Worth doing!
  13. knit a clapotis — Worth doing!
  14. knit something — Worth doing!
  15. finish the knitting olympics — Worth doing!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Find 10 people in 15 cities who are passionate about their city and want to help with a new project for 43 Places — completed about 1 month later
  2. touch a pyramid — completed 7 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get health insurance — Worth doing!
  2. be thanked in the intro to a book — Worth doing!
  3. practice discardia — Worth doing!
  4. live in New York City — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Walt Disney World — Worth visiting!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. give 900 cheers — completed 3 months later
  2. start postcrossing — completed 6 months later
  3. organize a 43Things meetup in NYC (or nearby) — completed 10 months later
  4. stop getting junk mail — completed about 1 year later
  5. scan all of my photos, postcards and souvenirs into flickr — completed about 1 year later
  6. team up with other New Yorkers in adding fresh, original content to 43Places's New York City Locals page — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Never settle for a dead end job or relationship again — Worth doing!
  2. Visit Tokyo — Worth doing!
  3. get a masters degree — Worth doing!
  4. Go to a Play in NYC — Worth doing!
  5. Do at least 1 thing on my 43 Things list — Worth doing!
  6. see the demolition of a large structure — Not worth doing
  7. declutter — Worth doing!
  8. live in New York for one year — Worth doing!
  9. Give 400 cheers. — Worth doing!
  10. Give 300 cheers. — Worth doing!
  11. give 600 cheers — Worth doing!
  12. Give 700 cheers — Worth doing!
  13. give 800 cheers! — Worth doing!
  14. Give 750 Cheers — Worth doing!
  15. read Dante's divine comedy — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Lower Manhattan — visited 19 days later
  2. Midtown — visited 19 days later
  3. Cape Cod National Seashore — visited 21 days later
  4. Yorkville — visited about 1 month later
  5. Museum Mile — visited about 1 month later
  6. Union Square Green Market — visited 2 months later
  7. Museum of Egyptian Antiquities — visited 2 months later
  8. Lower East Side — visited 2 months later
  9. Basilica di San Marco — visited 5 months later
  10. Hell's Kitchen — visited 6 months later
  11. TriBeCa — visited 6 months later
  12. LaGuardia Airport — visited about 1 year later
  13. The Oyster Bar — visited about 1 year later
  14. New York City — visited about 1 year later
  15. Mary, Queen Of The Universe Shrine
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Cadiz — Not worth visiting
  2. Sylvia's — Worth visiting!
  3. Biltmore Mansion — Worth visiting!
  4. Grand Central Terminal — Worth visiting!
  5. NYU Hospital — Worth visiting!
  6. Tompkins Square Park — Worth visiting!
  7. NoLiTa — Worth visiting!
  8. Young Designers Market — Worth visiting!
  9. Harlem — Worth visiting!
  10. Phillips Academy — Worth visiting!
  11. Union Square
  12. Brooklyn — Worth visiting!
  13. Les Catacombes — Worth visiting!
  14. Washington Heights — Worth visiting!
  15. Governors Island — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Malcolm Gladwell
  2. Amy Goodman
  3. Al Franken
  4. adrien brody
  5. Voltaire
  6. Franni Franken

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Daily: share my del.icio.us bookmarks with other 43Ters — completed 14 days later
  2. Respond to other 43people and not just cheer them — completed about 1 month later
  3. do something illegal — completed 8 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. live debt-free — Worth doing!
  2. receive a postcrossing postcard — Worth doing!
  3. Read 1,000 books — Worth doing!
  4. ride a roller coaster — Worth doing!
  5. own a t-shirt with a bandname on it — Worth doing!
  6. Have my first kiss — Worth doing!
  7. adopt a cat or dog from an animal shelter — Worth doing!
  8. get a massage — Worth doing!
  9. Fall in love — Worth doing!
  10. volunteer for something — Worth doing!
  11. have a movie marathon — Worth doing!
  12. do yoga — Worth doing!
  13. eat sushi — Worth doing!
  14. visit one of the disney themeparks — Worth doing!
  15. type with 10 fingers — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Mission: SPACE — visited 19 days later
  2. Las Vegas Strip — visited 4 months later
  3. The Bronx — visited 5 months later
  4. Manhattan — visited 6 months later
  5. Monticello — visited 8 months later
  6. MGM Grand — visited about 1 year later
  7. Meatpacking District — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. New York University — Worth visiting!
  2. World Trade Center Site — Worth visiting!
  3. Staten Island — Worth visiting!
  4. Long Island — Worth visiting!
  5. Empire State Building — Worth visiting!
  6. Flatiron Building — Worth visiting!
  7. Times Square — Worth visiting!
  8. Rockefeller Center — Worth visiting!
  9. Brooklyn Bridge — Worth visiting!
  10. Central Park Zoo — Worth visiting!
  11. Bronx Zoo — Worth visiting!
  12. New York Aquarium — Worth visiting!
  13. Cathedral Of St. John The Divine — Worth visiting!
  14. St. Patrick's Cathedral — Worth visiting!
  15. American Museum Of Natural History — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Brave New World — Worth consuming!
  2. The Secret Garden — Worth consuming!
  3. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) — Worth consuming!
  5. Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century Classics) — Worth consuming!
  6. Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  8. The BFG — Worth consuming!
  9. Matilda — Worth consuming!
  10. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  11. On the Road (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  12. Life of Pi — Worth consuming!
  13. The Catcher in the Rye — Worth consuming!
  14. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
  15. Middlesex: A Novel — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. A Night at the Opera — Worth consuming!
  2. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness — Worth consuming!
  3. Achtung Baby — Worth consuming!
  4. Zooropa — Worth consuming!
  5. The Joshua Tree — Worth consuming!
  6. Ten — Worth consuming!
  7. Automatic for the People — Worth consuming!
  8. The Bends — Worth consuming!
  9. OK Computer — Worth consuming!
  10. Nevermind — Worth consuming!
  11. August and Everything After — Worth consuming!
  12. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust — Worth consuming!
  13. Play — Worth consuming!
  14. Kid A — Worth consuming!
  15. Born in the U.S.A. — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Fisher King — Worth consuming!
  2. Dark City (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  3. Psycho (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Piano — Worth consuming!
  5. Spirited Away — Worth consuming!
  6. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  7. Beetlejuice — Worth consuming!
  8. Contact — Worth consuming!
  9. L.A. Confidential — Worth consuming!
  10. Raging Bull — Worth consuming!
  11. The Manchurian Candidate — Worth consuming!
  12. My Neighbor Totoro (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Ghost in the Shell — Worth consuming!
  14. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari — Worth consuming!
  15. Duck Soup — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Mexican Food — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. abjure - To recant solemnly; renounce or repudiate. — Worth consuming!
  2. abrogate — Worth consuming!
  3. abstemious — Worth consuming!
  4. acumen — Worth consuming!
  5. antebellum — Worth consuming!
  6. auspicious — Worth consuming!
  7. belie — Worth consuming!
  8. bellicose — Worth consuming!
  9. bowdlerize — Worth consuming!
  10. chicanery — Worth consuming!
  11. chromosome — Worth consuming!
  12. churlish — Worth consuming!
  13. circumlocution — Worth consuming!
  14. circumnavigate — Worth consuming!
  15. deciduous — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. teach my cat that humans are friends, not food — completed 10 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Send 20 Postcards with Postcrossing — Worth doing!
  2. Daily: share my del.icio.us bookmarks with other 43Ters — Worth doing!
  3. love a cat — Worth doing!
  4. see the ocean — Worth doing!
  5. cry from happiness — Worth doing!
  6. be loved by a child — Worth doing!
  7. laugh until you're stupid — Worth doing!
  8. speak out about what you believe — Worth doing!
  9. help someone less fortunate — Worth doing!
  10. Defend the underdog — Worth doing!
  11. party like a rockstar! — Worth doing!
  12. help the earth — Worth doing!
  13. try a new food and be pleasantly surprised — Worth doing!
  14. make friendship that lasts a lifetime — Worth doing!
  15. put an asshole in their place — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. North Dakota — visited about 1 month later
  2. Oregon — visited about 1 month later
  3. Minnesota — visited about 1 month later
  4. Pacific Coast Highway — visited 4 months later
  5. Ginza — visited 5 months later
  6. Charleston — visited 11 months later
  7. Snowbird — visited 11 months later
  8. Aquarium Of The Bay — visited about 1 year later
  9. Hawai'i — visited about 1 year later
  10. Nebraska — visited about 1 year later
  11. South Dakota — visited about 1 year later
  12. Iowa — visited about 1 year later
  13. Puerto Rico
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Hamilton Heights — Worth visiting!
  2. Park City — Worth visiting!
  3. Copper Mountain — Worth visiting!
  4. Copper Mountain Resort — Worth visiting!
  5. Akasaka — Worth visiting!
  6. Akihabara — Worth visiting!
  7. Shinjuku — Worth visiting!
  8. Marunouchi — Worth visiting!
  9. Tiffany + Co — Worth visiting!
  10. Tokyo Station — Worth visiting!
  11. The South Shore — Worth visiting!
  12. Suffolk County — Worth visiting!
  13. The North Shore — Worth visiting!
  14. Great South Bay — Worth visiting!
  15. South Oyster Bay — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Falling Up — Worth consuming!
  2. Where the Sidewalk Ends : Poems and Drawings — Worth consuming!
  3. The Chronicles of Narnia — Worth consuming!
  4. Black Boy (The Restored Text Established by The Library of America) (Perennial Classics) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Crying of Lot 49 — Worth consuming!
  6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics) — Worth consuming!
  7. Don Quixote (P.S.) — Worth consuming!
  8. The Wheel on the School — Worth consuming!
  9. Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery) — Worth consuming!
  10. Bridge to Terabithia — Worth consuming!
  11. Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall) — Worth consuming!
  12. The Dharma Bums — Worth consuming!
  13. White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction) — Worth consuming!
  14. The Odyssey — Worth consuming!
  15. Secret of the Andes (Puffin Book) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Wag the Dog (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  2. Field of Dreams (Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Talented Mr. Ripley — Worth consuming!
  4. Tron — Worth consuming!
  5. Il Postino — Worth consuming!
  6. Like Water for Chocolate — Worth consuming!
  7. The Dark Crystal — Worth consuming!
  8. 10 Things I Hate About You — Worth consuming!
  9. Empire of the Sun — Worth consuming!
  10. Grease (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. Lawrence of Arabia (Limited Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. Wonder Boys — Worth consuming!
  13. High Fidelity — Worth consuming!
  14. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Harry Potter 1) — Worth consuming!
  15. O Brother, Where Art Thou? — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More With Feeling — Worth consuming!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. give 1300 cheers — completed 2 months later
  2. Take a picture of myself at Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell Place [Gold Street at Beekman] for my cousin, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell — completed 2 months later
  3. Celebrate the return of the prodigal Baldy now known as Simunt and anyone else who's been MIA — completed 6 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. See the opera Carmen — Worth doing!
  2. Respond to other 43people and not just cheer them — Worth doing!
  3. learn to use chopsticks — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. MTA New York City Subway — visited 25 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Canals of Venice — Worth visiting!
  2. Museum of Egyptian Antiquities — Worth visiting!
  3. Manchester-By-The-Sea — Worth visiting!
  4. Lower East Side — Worth visiting!
  5. Northern California — Worth visiting!
  6. Southern Illinois — Worth visiting!
  7. Disneyland Monorail
  8. Washington Metro — Worth visiting!
  9. Roosevelt Tram — Worth visiting!
  10. LIRR — Worth visiting!
  11. MTA New York City Buses — Worth visiting!
  12. Sunset Strip — Worth visiting!
  13. Minneapolis — Worth visiting!
  14. Montana — Worth visiting!
  15. North Dakota — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. dorkart
  2. Paul Dano
  3. docatomic
Watched:
  1. Go — Worth consuming!
  2. Sense and Sensibility — Worth consuming!
  3. Hackers — Worth consuming!
  4. Everyone Says I Love You — Worth consuming!
  5. Mr. Holland's Opus — Not worth consuming
  6. Boys Don't Cry — Worth consuming!
  7. Chasing Amy - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  8. In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  9. The Crow (Miramax/Dimension Collector's Series) — Worth consuming!
  10. In America — Worth consuming!
  11. The Terminal (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  12. Collateral (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. The Motorcycle Diaries (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai — Worth consuming!
  15. Dick Tracy — Worth consuming!

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. mail a postcard to The Robots from one of my 43 Places — completed 17 days later
  2. share blogs with 43 43Ters on Vox — completed about 1 month later
  3. Give 1,700 Cheers — completed about 1 month later
  4. Convert to green energy — completed about 1 month later
  5. give 1600 cheers — completed about 1 month later
  6. not be too cheap to buy a decent bra — completed 2 months later
  7. track everything I spend for a week — completed 5 months later
  8. Get people to send Matty post cards with pictures of states from around the US! — completed 5 months later
  9. keep track of the things I'm doing that help my business-of-one along — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. 2006-09-11: join at least 43 other 43Ters in posting reflections on the anniversary this coming Monday — Worth doing!
  2. give 900 cheers — Worth doing!
  3. give 1400 cheers — Worth doing!
  4. give 1500 cheers — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. South Carolina — visited 9 months later
  2. Corn Palace — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Oregon — Worth visiting!
  2. Minnesota — Worth visiting!
  3. Uptown — Worth visiting!
  4. Lake Of The Isles — Worth visiting!
  5. St. Mary's Basilica — Worth visiting!
  6. Hell's Kitchen — Worth visiting!
  7. Walker Art Center — Worth visiting!
  8. Minneapolis Sculpture Garden — Worth visiting!
  9. Dinkytown — Worth visiting!
  10. Minnesota State Fairgrounds — Worth visiting!
  11. Minnesota State Fair — Worth visiting!
  12. Mall Of America — Not worth visiting
  13. St. Paul — Worth visiting!
  14. Minot — Worth visiting!
  15. Loring Park — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. scazza
  2. tlong
Listened to:
  1. Substance — Worth consuming!
  2. Turn On the Bright Lights — Worth consuming!
  3. Give Up — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Spanish Prisoner — Worth consuming!
  2. Bottle Rocket — Worth consuming!
  3. Identity — Worth consuming!
  4. The Matrix Revolutions (2-Disc Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Last Samurai (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Princess Diaries 2 - Royal Engagement (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Spanglish — Worth consuming!
  9. Look Who's Talking — Worth consuming!
  10. Miss Congeniality — Worth consuming!
  11. Fireworks — Worth consuming!
  12. Along Came Polly (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Sleepless in Seattle (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. Toy Story 2 — Worth consuming!
  15. Mystery Men — Worth consuming!

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Travel to Tokyo — completed 1 day later
  2. go to amsterdam — completed 1 day later
  3. give 2300 cheers — completed 2 days later
  4. obtain pins on my guest map from 43Ters who cheer me. — completed about 1 month later
  5. find the biggest SPAM offenders on 43 Things — completed 4 months later
  6. obtain 43Ters' thoughts on how to blog and surf more efficiently and effectively. — completed 4 months later
  7. Give 2000 cheers — completed 4 months later
  8. Give 1,900 Cheers — completed 5 months later
  9. avoid stores that are advertising Christmas crap until the day after Thanksgiving — completed 4 months later
  10. make all of my holiday gifts this year — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. give 1300 cheers — Worth doing!
  2. give 1800 cheers — Worth doing!
  3. mail a postcard to The Robots from one of my 43 Places — Worth doing!
  4. Take the Real Age Test — Worth doing!
  5. cut down on high fructose corn syrup — Worth doing!
  6. Send hugs and support to Trauma_Junkie on the loss of her grandpa — Worth doing!
  7. own a giant American-style fridge — Not worth doing
  8. be in the newspaper — Worth doing!
  9. share blogs with 43 43Ters on Vox — Worth doing!
  10. kiss on public transit
  11. Give 1,700 Cheers — Worth doing!
  12. give 2100 cheers — Worth doing!
  13. go see Tidelands before it closes! — Worth doing!
  14. have a boyfriend that spoils me — Worth doing!
  15. See the Weird Al Yankovic - White n Nerdy Video — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Mary Hawkins Memorial Library
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Moishe's Homemade Kosher Bakery — Not worth visiting
  2. Ceci Cela — Worth visiting!
  3. J&R Music World — Worth visiting!
  4. Museum Of The City Of New York — Worth visiting!
  5. The Bata Shoe Museum — Worth visiting!
  6. Downtown — Worth visiting!
  7. Queen St. West — Worth visiting!
  8. Magic Pony — Worth visiting!
  9. Virginia
  10. Japanese Garden — Worth visiting!
  11. Los Angeles — Worth visiting!
  12. Mann's Chinese Theater — Worth visiting!
  13. Las Vegas Strip — Worth visiting!
  14. Old Faithful Geyser — Worth visiting!
  15. Smithsonian Institution — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Reader (Oprah's Book Club) — Worth consuming!
  2. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood — Worth consuming!
  3. Black and Blue: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Virgin Suicides — Worth consuming!
  5. She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club) — Worth consuming!
  6. Middlesex — Worth consuming!
  7. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Perennial Classics) — Worth consuming!
  8. Deep End of the Ocean — Worth consuming!
  9. Watership Down (Puffin Books) — Worth consuming!
  10. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) — Worth consuming!
  11. Of Mice and Men — Worth consuming!
  12. Little House on the Prairie Series (9 - Volumes) — Worth consuming!
  13. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts — Worth consuming!
  14. 1984 — Worth consuming!
  15. Fahrenheit 451 — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Annie Hall — Worth consuming!
  2. Harold and Maude — Worth consuming!
  3. The Matrix Reloaded (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Elephant: A Film By Gus Van Sant — Worth consuming!
  5. The Corporation — Worth consuming!
  6. Steamboy - Director's Cut (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Cowboy Bebop - The Movie — Worth consuming!
  8. Deliverance — Worth consuming!
  9. The Machinist — Worth consuming!
  10. William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. Braveheart — Worth consuming!
  12. The Bourne Supremacy (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Blood - The Last Vampire — Worth consuming!
  14. The Sweet Hereafter (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  15. Millennium Actress — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Sushi — Worth consuming!
  2. authentic indian food — Worth consuming!
  3. Thai iced tea — Worth consuming!
  4. Edamame — Worth consuming!
  5. Caprese Salad — Worth consuming!
  6. Chai Latte — Worth consuming!
  7. Kebab — Worth consuming!
  8. Cheesecake — Worth consuming!
  9. hummus — Worth consuming!
  10. Grilled cheese sandwich — Worth consuming!
  11. Eclairs — Worth consuming!
  12. Dim Sum — Worth consuming!
  13. Pad Thai — Worth consuming!
  14. Cadbury Creme Egg — Worth consuming!
  15. aged balsamic vinegar — Worth consuming!

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Visit France — completed 2 days later
  2. visit Seattle — completed 2 days later
  3. Visit Boston — completed 2 days later
  4. Visit Montreal — completed 2 days later
  5. eat at a thai restaurant — completed 2 days later
  6. Be able to become a member of a 43things team — completed 2 days later
  7. create a work of art — completed 3 days later
  8. do a paint by numbers — completed 3 days later
  9. try pocky — completed 3 days later
  10. drive fast — completed 3 days later
  11. get an icon for this site — completed 4 days later
  12. Finish reading 'Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy' — completed 4 days later
  13. have a tea party — completed 4 days later
  14. Have my wisdom teeth taken out — completed 4 days later
  15. (Perhaps) get a speeding ticket — completed 5 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go canoeing — Worth doing!
  2. Travel to Tokyo — Worth doing!
  3. go to amsterdam — Worth doing!
  4. Take a picture of myself at Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell Place [Gold Street at Beekman] for my cousin, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell — Not worth doing
  5. give 2300 cheers — Worth doing!
  6. learn to ride a bicycle — Worth doing!
  7. order more checks — Worth doing!
  8. Try Ethiopian food — Worth doing!
  9. Don't fall into the trap of watching television soaps — Worth doing!
  10. seek the healing of 43Things — Worth doing!
  11. never get a tattoo — Worth doing!
  12. watch napoleon dynamite — Worth doing!
  13. switch to mac — Worth doing!
  14. have my own business — Worth doing!
  15. open a bank account — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Marble Hill
  2. The Bronx — Worth visiting!
  3. Pacific Coast Highway — Worth visiting!
  4. Seattle — Worth visiting!
  5. British Museum — Worth visiting!
  6. Basilica di San Marco — Worth visiting!
  7. Katonah — Worth visiting!
  8. Woodside — Worth visiting!
  9. Sripraphai — Worth visiting!
  10. Hell's Kitchen — Worth visiting!
  11. TriBeCa — Worth visiting!
  12. Manhattan — Worth visiting!
  13. Kamakura — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Michael
Read:
  1. Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) — Worth consuming!
  2. A Christmas Carol — Worth consuming!
  3. Star Wars Trilogy, Episodes IV, V & VI — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. North by Northwest — Worth consuming!
  2. Devil's Advocate — Worth consuming!
  3. The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  4. Swordfish — Worth consuming!
  5. All About Eve — Worth consuming!
  6. The Animatrix — Worth consuming!
  7. Scarface (Widescreen Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. American Graffiti / More American Graffitti (Drive-In Double Feature) — Worth consuming!
  9. Shaolin Soccer — Worth consuming!
  10. The Godfather, Part III (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. The Sopranos: The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  12. From Hell (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Do The Right Thing - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  14. Van Helsing (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  15. Thirteen — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. To Kill a Mockingbird — Worth consuming!
  2. Tender Trap (1955) — Worth consuming!

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. watch 100 movies in 2006 — completed 20 days later
  2. watch Ice Age — completed 20 days later
  3. learn to use Maya — completed 21 days later
  4. go for a walk in a thunderstorm — completed 21 days later
  5. Learn Maya 6.5 — completed 21 days later
  6. learm Maya — completed 21 days later
  7. Draw daily — completed 22 days later
  8. go to art school — completed 22 days later
  9. paint and draw more — completed 22 days later
  10. watch 50 movies in 2006 — completed 22 days later
  11. watch 100 films in 2006 — completed 22 days later
  12. Eat less junk food — completed 22 days later
  13. live in another city — completed 22 days later
  14. Figure out what new goals I want to take on in the new year — completed 22 days later
  15. enjoy the sunshine — completed 23 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Visit France — Worth doing!
  2. visit Seattle — Worth doing!
  3. Visit Boston — Worth doing!
  4. Visit Montreal — Worth doing!
  5. eat at a thai restaurant — Worth doing!
  6. Be able to become a member of a 43things team — Worth doing!
  7. Watch Constantine — Worth doing!
  8. get straight a's and b's for my entire school career — Worth doing!
  9. Visit Normandy — Worth doing!
  10. Go to Portland, Oregon — Worth doing!
  11. save $1,000 in an emergency fund — Worth doing!
  12. Visit Venice — Worth doing!
  13. Stop buying things from Wal-Mart — Worth doing!
  14. play in the snow — Worth doing!
  15. cry at the movies — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun — Worth visiting!
  2. Jackson Pollock One: Number 31 — Worth visiting!
  3. Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night — Worth visiting!
  4. Sandro Botticelli - La Primavera — Worth visiting!
  5. Raphael - The School of Athens — Worth visiting!
  6. Parthenon Sculptures — Worth visiting!
  7. Jasper Johns Flag — Worth visiting!
  8. Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi - The Annunciation — Worth visiting!
  9. Ginza — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Ikyotochan
Watched:
  1. SLC Punk — Worth consuming!
  2. The Last Temptation of Christ - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  3. The Philadelphia Story — Worth consuming!
  4. The Thin Man (Snap case) — Worth consuming!
  5. Top Gun (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition) — Not worth consuming
  6. Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Volume One — Worth consuming!
  7. Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Volume Two — Worth consuming!
  8. Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  9. Director's Series, Vol. 3 - The Work of Director Michel Gondry — Worth consuming!
  10. Pink Flamingos — Worth consuming!
  11. The Devil's Backbone — Worth consuming!
  12. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes — Worth consuming!
  13. Sealab 2021 - Season 2 — Worth consuming!
  14. Sealab 2021 - Season 1 — Worth consuming!
  15. Belle de Jour — Worth consuming!

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