1. Live in Boston
2. Master’s Degree
3. Become self-actualized, again 2008
a. Deeply connect 2009
4. New home coffee
5. Complete a No-shave November 2008
6. Tip of Maine
7. Complete Mustache March
8. Own all C.S. Lewis
9. Be published
10. Play another show 2009
11. Record another song
12. Have a cliche rain kiss 2009
13. See Dylan live
14. Take a nap in a hammock with someone (moonlit)
15. Fenway
16. Be a best man
17. Speak at a wedding reception
18. Complete my closet art project
19. Paint something
20. Smoke a cigar atop a Bostonian building
21. Learn to appreciate jazz 2009
22. Return to the fox theater 2009
23. Write her a letter everyday she is stranded in alaska 2009
24. Finish my third person autobiography
25. Return to the spot of my near death
26. Book Loft, Columbus
27. Camp again
28. Live past 27
29. Elizabethtown
30. Silent Hill
31. Ireland
32. Great-grandma’s grave
33. Adopt a child
34. Quit quitting things 2008
35. Meet Conor 2009
36. Get paid to do something I love
37. Live in a loft
38. Fly fish
39. Run a 5K
40. Go on a cleanse diet
41. LMHC
42. Name one of my children Troy
43. Be fluent in another language
44. August 12th 2009
45. Complete list of must see movies
46. Buy a new Mac
47. Have dinner ready
48. Quit Coach 2009
49. Spend an abnormal amount of time in Annapolis
50. Go on another random road trip
51. Learn every major tie knot
52. Own an espresso machine
53. Return to Cigar Masters in Boston
54. Teach someone guitar
55. Own all Conor on all formats
56. Take my children to their first show
57. Run a 10K
58. Pass notes in class, again 2008
59. Louvre
60. Anne series
61. Become financially independent
62. Pay off my student loans
63. Finish the Dulouz legend
64. Love someone my whole life
65. Fill 12 cahiers in one year
66. Keep just one of my secrets 2009
67. Send in a postsecret
68. Fill that bottle
69. Have the world’s greatest collection of coffee table books Started 2008
70. Marry someone who bakes for me
71. Read all Camus
72. Learn the entirety of blackbird
73. Learn to sword fight
74. Be an extra in a film
75. Have my portrait painted
76. Late night drive
77. Visit each continent (except Antarctica)
78. Sleep for forty-eight hours straight
79. Pull an all-nighter, for a reason 2009
80. Have a happy new year’s 2008/2009
81. Visit the brewery where Guinness is brewed
82. Visit New York City (via Boston Chinatown express)
83. Order “cold tea” at two in the morning in Chinatown, Boston
84. Swim in the Charles
85. Sleep in an airport 2009
86. Fall in love 2009
87. Buy another homeless man a drink
88. Own only as many suits as necessary
89. Bike to work
90. Write a letter to a hero
91. Show someone around my hometown 2008
92. See her face light up
93. Complete mos pictures
94. See DKM on St. Patrick’s Day in Boston
95. Thrift (2009)
96. Sleep on a roof
97. Face fears
98. Be at her graduation (obviously)
99. Re-learn piano
100. Own 33 skinny ties
101. Fatherly advice 2009
102. Have a chauffeured date
103. Make solid A’s
104. Jog with my son
105. Keep it in the vault
106. Learn to (actually) dance
107. Build a treehouse.
108. Drink Sam Adams Utopia. Again.
109. Make a friend on the T
110. Marry a BE girl.
111. Throw a desktop out of a window, onto a city street.
112. Chicago
113. Let someone see my old journals
114. Start wearing purple, wearing purple. 2009
115. Sing Auld Lang Syne with two million drunk Bostonians.
116. Get a tattoo in my wife’s handwriting.
117. Pay for dinner for a group
118. Own every issue of McSweeney’s.
119. You’ll never know
120. Yard work
121. Confessions
122. Theater effect
123. Christmas
124. Go to work via subway
125. Have a choo-choo party
126. Learn to love the beach
127. Find my way back to SC on March 26
128. See my brother graduate
129. Wear a tie every day for a year
130. See Barcelona play at Camp Nou
131. June on the west coast
132. Make a poorly drawn comic of my life every night for 33 days
133. Sleep in someone else’s bed without them ever knowing (2009)
134. Wear nice clothes when flying
135. Piggy bank (2009)
136. Take her back to Alaska. For real this time.
137. Write a novella in one weekend. Even if it’s horrible.
138. Go to a Tao Lin book reading. (2009)
139. Stay up all night with my wife and watch Ed Wood movies.
140. Top of the hub.
141. Take a train along the west coast.
142. Drive along the great lakes.
143. Canada.
144. Meet Tao Lin. (2009)
