Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Bucket

Everyone's making bucket lists. Coincidentally, I made a bucket list!

NB: I am an individual and don't do things cos they're fashionable


  1. Become free of mental illness
  2. Learn to drive so I can be more prepared for number 3
  3. Reproduce
  4. Walk between Carlisle and Newcastle in either-not-both direction in 1 calendar day
  5. Enter the Southern Hemisphere
  6. Be the highest person in England as measured by whether I'm on the top of Scafell Pike and everyone else in England isn't
  7. Go to a Major League Baseball game preferably a Toronto one
  8. See QPR win a Premier League match
  9. Be individually praised for my workwork by someone above Head of Department level
  10. Be Mensa chess champion (should this turn out to be really difficult I may settle for Sell champion)
  11. Be president of the Northumbria Chess Association
  12. Be able to checkmate with bishop+knight vs. king
  13. Learn Oracle
  14. Know all the capitals of all the countries in all the world
  15. Collect a penny from every year since decimalisation
  16. Run 5 kilometres in 25 minutes
  17. Run 1 mile in 7 minutes
  18. Camp in Wimbledon Park to get Centre Court tickets
  19. Be able to tell the difference between Costa Rican, Colombian and Brazilian coffee by taste
  20. Have a bit of music that I write get used in a video game
  21. Advance the theory of mathematics in some way
  22. Advance the practice of barbershop harmony in some way
  23. Perform in Hall One and be the only one singing/playing my part
  24. Play trombone at a level above total beginner
  25. NaNoWriMo
  26. Comprehend a whole foreign-language radio program
  27. Live somewhere south of Yorkshire
  28. Fix my feet
  29. Fix my asthma
  30. Fix my inability to pee when there are people in the same room and I'm not drunk
  31. Have sex in a moving vehicle (air/water craft count)
  32. Reduce my pile of dirty laundry to 0
32 is enough for now. I may add more. Bye!