:: eye of the storm ::


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A 27-year-old PA student who wants to visit all seven continents, write a book, work at a pediatric clinic in Africa, and basically meet as many of the world's challenges as possible.

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Life List

(already accomplished)

Become a PA

Visit all 7 continents

Take a SwimTrek trip

Bike through Western Europe

Raft the Grand Canyon

Improve my Spanish proficiency

Go on safari in Africa

Trace my roots at Ellis Island

Vacation in Hawaii

Work on a hospital ship in a Third World country

Celebrate New Year's in Times Square

Visit all 50 states (29 to go: AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NM, ND, OK, OR, RI, SD, TX, UT, VT, WA, WV, WI, WY)

See the ruins at Pompeii

Swim in Capri's Blue Grotto

Tour Mt. Vesuvius

Throw a coin in the Trevi Fountain

Tour the Colosseum

Visit the D-Day beaches

See the Mona Lisa

Visit the palace at Versailles

See the Acropolis and Parthenon

See the Egyptian pyramids

Hike the Inca Trail

Walk El Camino Santiago

Take an Alaskan cruise

View the Taj Mahal at sunrise

Hike Table Mountain in South Africa

Climb through the Amazon canopy

Walk at least part of the Great Wall of China

Get laser hair removal

Learn to surf, ski, and snowboard

Learn to drive a stick-shift

Learn to play the piano

Go on a tropical cruise

Ride horseback on the beach

Ride in a hot air balloon

Get tickets to the Olympics

Go to adult Space Camp

Witness a shuttle launch from up close

Build a full-sized snowman

Sew a quilt out of my old race T-shirts

Update and continue my Life Scrapbook

Become the oldest person to ever do the River Run

Live to be a happy, healthy 100 years old - at least!

(unlikely dreams)

zondag 18 april 2004

Boring boring boring day. For some reason I woke up and barfed around 5.30, then went back to bed and woke up around 9 feeling absolutely fine. Readjusting to the non-Spanish food, or something?

David was supposed to come over today but isn't, so I'm still sitting here in my pajamas, surfing around on the computer. I've mailed two vertaalbureaus (translation companies) to see if they need any more freelance people. I was a bit mean to Broadcast Text Amsterdam, the ones who do the subtitles for Net5 - I told them that I saw a lot of backwards numbers and literally-translated expressions, and that it seemed to me that they could use a native speaker who might actually understand what was being said. But don't worry, I was polite, and that speak-your-mind thing is (thank goodness) considered an asset around here.

(Backwards numbers... yeah... Dutch and English have different systems once you get above twenty. If you say twenty-one, for example, in Dutch it's one-and-twenty (één-en-twintig)... that's why there are backwards numbers.)

Further news: two Internet quizzes (both stolen from Chris):

Which Political Extremity Are You? Apparently I'm a fascist. The description says: At the distant bottom-right of the political spectrum. Fascism supports total civil opression, particularly for minorities, who were prosecuted. However, it does open up to a free market. It has been attempted and failed in countries including Italy, and socialist version of it called Nazism was tried in Germany.

Hmmm. Right.

This one I had already done - several times - the Myers-Briggs test. We had to do it at camp every year during the counselor orientation week; I was always somewhere around ENTpj (Extroverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving/Judging). That was the real test. According to this one, I'm an ESTJ (Extroverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging), and it says that I am an 'administrator', with possible careers being"government employee, pharmaceutical sales, auditor, computer analyst, technical trainer, project manager, officer manager, factory supervisor, credit analyst, electrical engineer, stockbroker, regulatory compliance officer, chief information officer, construction worker, general contractor, paralegal, industrial engineer, budget analyst, data base manager, funeral director, cook, security guard, dentist."

Can anybody see me doing ANY of those things, except perhaps security guard? (No jokes about my cooking!) And if 'government employee' includes FBI agent, then yeah, that works too. But for the rest... no way!

Yes, Jess is bored. The boredom has reached extremes when she starts doing online tests. (Even more extreme when she starts talking about herself in the third person...)

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