Apocalist
general journal junk
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idealog
Some folks use the term apocalist instead of bucket list now, and I have to admit that I much prefer it. Current bucket list:
- sing Queen of Hearts with Dave Edmunds.
- actually finishing Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid one of these years.
I found a really old bucket list on my hard drive. I have no idea when I wrote this, but it must be bumping up on 20 years at least if snooker's on it. They're certainly all things I want(ed) to do, but I'd now call this more of a to-do list. bucket lists feel a bit more do or die, for wont of a better expression. These days my bucket list is pretty small, as you can see above.
- summit Kilimanjaro
- score a century in snooker
- sing the "Ode to Joy" in the whispering gallery of St. Paul's Cathedral in London
- visit Portmeirion
- visit Uluru
- visit Petra
- visit Angkor Wat
- visit Death Valley
- stand with my feet in the Atlantic Ocean again
- master univocalic poetry
- learn to speak more Assyrian, and write it also
- get a titanium ring
- get a drafting table so I can get back to paper-cutting
a proper studio to do work in(living room serves)- start leaving God's Eyes around the city in the middle of the night again
- go back home so I can help my Aunt Marie bury my grandmother's ashes
- sit on a porch during a foggy dawn, where I can smell the sea
- actually finish "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" one of these years
- start writing letters again
- move somewhere better
- acquire a bound copy of the multi-volume Oxford English Dictionary
- get more fit
- visit Fraser Castle, Lovatt, Scotland
- maybe get a masters (MAIS @ AU)
- create a Zen garden
- learn to play a musical instrument