Life Bucket List
My bucket list items I’ve accumulated over the years (since high school), subject to revisions and additions:
- Learn German
- Become conversationally fluent in French
Live on the East coast/New England (totally counting my 2 month summer experience, although I’d like to live in New England for real)- Live on the West coast/Pacific NW
- Live in Canada (Montreal or Vancouver)
- Spend a summer living on a farm/doing something similar to this
Live in a studio apartment- Live in a Tumbleweed home
- Visit Europe
- Go to the Newport Folk Music Festival
- See the Christmas market in Germany
Dance in a legit flashmobTake a class at the Broadway Dance Center- Take one dance class/week every week for a year
- Take a dance class with Mia Michaels
- Take a dance class with NappyTabs
- Take a circus/aerial class
- Be in three musicals (I’ve been in two thus far)
- Choreograph a musical
Be in a professional theater productionSee a show on Broadway in NYCSee the Friends apartment in NYC
- See a live taping of a TV show
- Attend a TEDTalk
- Attend a live taping of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
- See Celine Dion in Vegas
- See Christmas in NYC
Go to Northwestern- Get my master’s degree
- Get my doctorate
Get a 4.0 in a semester grad school- Get published
- Get my material presented at a conference
- Give a TED Talk
- Teach at a college or university
Work full-time as an academic advisor- Work at the Museum of Science and Industry
- Work full-time in medical education
- Get certified as a Child Life Specialist
- Be on the Board of Directors for a performing arts organization
- Pay off student loans
- Get a vespa and ride it around campus
- Own my own home
- Fall in love
- Get married
- Retire in a small apartment overlooking Lincoln Park
- Learn to play piano
- Remember how to play clarinet
- Learn a stringed instrument (viola or cello)
- Learn to play guitar [in progress]
- Take voice lessons
- Be able to identify the composer classical music just by listening (thanks acefromspace for the idea)
- Show up at the airport and take a random flight to go on vacation
- Take a roadtrip up both coasts
- Take a cross-country train ride
- Have a barrel of whiskey named after me and then bottle, label and then buy the first bottle from the batch (it’s very specific, but doable).
- Go skiing/snowboarding
- Stay at a Bed and Breakfast
- Volunteer long-term for an animal shelter
- Adopt my own puppy
Adopt my own kitty- Judge a best in show dog show
- Foster a puppy or cat
- Hold a koala
Run a 5k in 45 minutes or less- Run a 10k
- Do a single axle/jump of some sort on ice
- Be able to hold a freestanding handstand for 30 seconds
- Get my total cholesterol under 180
Donate blood- Learn to bake from scratch
- Go apple-picking or berry-picking
- Do a corn maze
- Read 52 books in one year
- Grow my own food
