The Adventure List

October 2^nd, 2009

“I’m never going to be famous.  My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things.  I don’t do anything.  Not one single thing.  I used to bite my nails, but I don’t even do that anymore.”

This is quite possibly my favourite Dorothy Parker quote—next to, “I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound—if I can remember any of the damn things.”

Anyway, back to the first quote.

I too am never going to be famous.  But, I will do things.  That I’m sure of (I hope so anyway).  To start me on this epic journey to the great roster of “Those Who Do Things” I’ve decided that a list is in order.  Anal? Probably.  Do I care? Not really.  Here’s to putting an end to the whole “Life ADD” thing.

Pft—who we kidding? This is about as “ADD” as it gets…

July 20th, 2010:  As this is now a part of my blog, feel free to comment and give me a virtual kick in the arse to get some of these things done   Some might never happen, but it doesn’t hurt to try!

THE LIST (in no particular order):

1. Finish every story I ever started
2. Write a “B-Movie” script
3. Graduate from college
4. Become fluent in Spanish
5. Make documentary of some sort
6. Learn to cook January 1st, 2011.  Kicked off the New Year by kicking something off the list
7. Go to Graduate School?
8. Go to Film School Film and Media Studies at ASU official 4/10
9. Learn to drive (don’t judge me!) Step 1 Accomplished! I took my Learner’s Permit test and PASSED! So, now for the fun part: learning how to actually drive the car.
10. Learn to dance
11. Travel abroad
12. Amass a great movie collection
13. Wear Converse to a formal event
14. Camp out for a Rose Parade
15. Learn French
16.  Midnight Movie Premiere September 16th, 2011- The Lion King 3D 
17. Write for a television show or webseries
18. Be in a parade
19. Own a puppy
20. Do something stupid in front of a lot of people and be ok with it
21. Live at the beach July 2010—La Jolla, CA (since I was actually living in a house and not in a hotel, it counts.)
22. Create a TV show or webseries
23. Grow my hair long again July 2011
24. Have a blackboard wall
25. Live in LA
26. Go to an aquarium (yes, I’ve never been to one.) May 15th, 2012 at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas. 
27. Win a contest National Novel Writing Month November 2009
28. Be on a game show (or at least audition) I took an online quiz for the Jeopardy! College Edition audition pool. I guess if my name’s drawn within the next 18 months, I get contacted about an interview/audition and then if that goes well, I’ll be on the show? Highly unlikely, but I did it! 
29. Find my niche
30. Learn to play the piano
31. Invent a new word mornight (n): The period of time between night and morning that’s usually occupied by doing homework, writing reports, etc… ex: It’s 3am, I finished my report, good mornight!  Created sometime during 2009.
32. Own a kitten
33. Catch a fly ball (again) and manage to keep it this time…
34. Land a killer internship August 2011, I’m a Copy Edit Intern! The perfect internship for a word nerd, no? 
35. Work in a coffee shop
36. Read Wuthering Heights
37. Have a blog (that people actually read) (September 2009: www.tobiewankenobi.wordpress.com.  According to the stats, people read it!) 
38. Minor in Spanish ASU 3/2010
39. Learn how to sing on key
40. Ride [and survive (thank you Jillian)] a zip-line
41. Publish a story
42. Build a website
43. Live in a small town
44. See a show on Broadway
45. Go to London
46. Go to Spain
47. Go to Ireland
48. Do something quintessential to the college experience, like Greek Life (2-10-10: Rushing for Alpha Gamma Delta—yeah, that’s right. A freakin’ sorority. No I did not make it.)
49. Apply for the ABC/Disney internship
50. Write for a magazine
51. Write freelance
52. Make Baked Alaska
53. Find out what Baked Alaska is (10-3-09)
54. Go to a Dodgers game
55. Dance on a table
56. Go to a rock concert
57. Learn to play the guitar
58. Road trip with friends San Diego 7/10 with Jillian & Christine
59. Host a giant game of “Mafia”
60. Build a massive sandcastle San Diego 7/10
61. Write a children’s book
62. Learn sign language
63. New Year’s Eve in Times Square
64. Learn to juggle
65. Read the Harry Potter series (Sorcerer’s Stone- 10/6/09,  Chamber of Secrets- 10/12/10, Prisoner of Azkaban- 7/10/11, Goblet of Fire – 7/16/10)
66. Learn first aid/CPR
67.  (Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Godfather, Gone with the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, The Wizard of Oz, The Graduate, , Schindler’s List, Singin’ in the Rain) Complete October 2nd, 2011
68. Start my own business (perhaps production? Ninja Sushi? Hm…)
69. Watch all the HP movies (Sorcerer’s Stone- 10/4/09 Chamber of Secrets- 12/5/09 Prisoner of Azkaban 12/5/09 Goblet of Fire 12/6/09 Order of the Phoenix 12/6/09, Half-Blood Prince 4/16/11, Deathly Hallows Pt. 1 5/1/11, Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 1/9/12)
70. Own a house
71. Be a spectator at the Olympics
72. Collect something pointless (do pennies count?)
73. Disneyland on my birthday
74. Learn to sew—for repairs
75. Host a massive game of Spoons
76. Kick the caffeine addiction  I gave up coffee for Lent this year (2011).  7 weeks without it and then I had coffee just after it was over and…it wasn’t a pretty sight.  I felt incredibly sick afterwards and it gave me a horrible headache.  So, I think it’s safe to say I can cross this off the list now.
77. Learn to paint
78. Go to a taping of a late-night show
79. See the sun rise (10/18/09)
80. Go on a picnic 10-15-11
81. Overcome my fear of flying (eep)
82. Pay off all my student loans
83. Masquerade as a window mannequin (and get photographic evidence this time!)
84. Dye my hair red (I said it would be on the list, it’s on the list)
85. Put the twisted fairytale in either graphic novel or novel form
86. “Small Boat” [which is not at the bottom of this list ]
87. Ninja Sushi/Tiny Spoon Dream Office of Wonder
88. Go to New Orleans
89. Go to Chicago
90. Write the Harry’s Diner script Complete August 2010
91. Edit Harry’s Diner
92. Learn to ride a bike (don’t mock me, I have a horrible sense of balance.) I, Tobie James, finally learned to ride a bike yesterday (January something…).  And it ended with my head in one piece, no concussions, and a serious sense of accomplishment.  I am invincible!
93. Finish a game of Monopoly
94. Finish “The Novel”
95. Take a yoga class
96. Take a photography class
97. Go to Rome
98. Learn to play chess July 17th, 2010 Panikin’s La Jolla, California–massive chess board!
99. See Wicked
100. See Next to Normal
101. See In the Heights
102. Write the Green Phantom story
103. Put the Green Phantom into Graphic form
104. Higher Education
105. Learn Italian
106. Learn how to walk in high heels May 14th, 2012 – I trekked up the Strip from The Venetian to The Cosmopolitan.  That’s a mile.  A mile in heels.  I think that counts as being able to walk in them, yeah? 
107. Tea party
108. Sidewalk chalk mural
109. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop? I shall find out! I have conquered! 683 licks to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop! P’wned!
110. See the Grand Canyon
111. Attempt to break a Guinness World Record
112. Go to D.C.
113. See the Louvre
114. See the Eiffel Tower
115. See the Statue of Liberty
116. Go to SeaWorld (California or Florida)
117. Go to Disney World (Florida)
118. Take a pottery class
119. Go to a spa
120. Flogging Molly concert on St. Paddy’s Day
121. Watch  (yeah, yeah, I know…) “There is no spoon.”
122. Go without tweeting anything for a week. August 28, 2010-September 3rd, 2010
123. Collect all my pennies for a year and buy something after.  (started: August 25th, 2010) Ended August 25th, 2011.  I have to say, pennies are harder to collect than people would think, simply for the fact that I rarely ever received them in change! I don’t know, maybe I was trying too hard to find them…anyway, I saved $3.64 in pennies.  I cashed them in and bought myself a Taco Bell value menu at my school’s food court.  Not the greatest purchase ever, but I was hungry! 
124. NOH8 photo campaign
125. Save up enough money for a new laptop (November 14th, 2010.  Ok, so I didn’t save up ALL the money I needed, but I had enough to cover a large portion of it.  As for the rest, all I can say is thank God for my impossibly high credit score.)
126. Make my current laptop last at least another 4 months (Fail: Lazarus passed away November 13th, 2010.  Due to unforeseen circumstances, his hard drive was fried and unrepairable.  RIPieces, Little Bastard.)
127. Buy a Macbook (November 14th, 2010)
128. Participate in the Arts Parade, Phoenix next year (2011) Fail: I was too sick to go this year Next year though! I will shoot for next year (though I’m not putting it on the List, it seems a little redundant)
129. Make hot chocolate with chocolate milk. Is it really double the chocolatey goodness? December 13th, 2010.  Yes, yes it does.  Although, I’ve been told results vary, so if anyone’s wondering I used Shamrock Farms’ chocolate milk with Nestle Hot Cocoa mix.  Chocolatey deliciousness.
130. Backpack through Europe, or New Zealand.  Maybe Spain.  We’ll see.
131. Go to Montreal
132. Get a passport
133.  Accomplish at least 5 things on this list during 2011 and post about them. Who’s up for Round 2? I’m continuing with this through 2012! 
134. Get a really nice pair of sunglasses
135. Fly first class
136. Tie a cherry stem with my tongue (there’s a trick to doing this, apparently.  Like a shortcut or something that I found in a book.  We’ll see if I can figure out how to do it) May 15th, 2012
137. Jump in a fountain.  I’ve run through one, why not jump into one? November 29th, 2011.  Not my brightest of moments, the fountain was deeper than I thought and really, really cold! 
138. First Friday September 2nd, 2011 – I finally made it to First Friday, braved the METRO at night for it. Thankfully, I went with a group of friends, so no one attacked me this time! 
139. Read War and Peace
140. Finish a game of Life
141. ASU Undie Run
142. 100 Things That Make Me Happy September 19th, 2011, posted here.  
143. Learn everything I possibly can about comic books
144. Write the Marvel vs. DC piece
145. Visit the Guggenheim
146. Marathon all the Disney Princess movies
147. Formal Friday
148.  Call the Hogwarts Hotline October 5th, 2011 So, if you’re a Harry Potter fan, you need to call (781)-452-4077. Now. 
149. Apply for the Pixar internship
150. Carve a pumpkin for Halloween
151. Go to Las Vegas May 14-16th, 2012
     
152. Play the slots at least once (preferably while in Vegas) just to say I have. May 14-16th, 2012
153. Try chicken and waffles May 5, 2012–my major is not a real thing, it can’t be. My independent study class (4 people) and our professor went to lunch at Lo-Lo’s Chicken and Waffles to celebrate the end of the semester. See? Not real. 
154. Go to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
155. Go to ComiCon
156. Go to Carmel and prove to Kat’s friends and family that I am not imaginary and that she’s not (that) out of her mind (yet).
157. Put the lemon in play. May 15th-16th, 2012
158. Go to New York (I have all these things about New York on the list, but I never actually put Go There on the list…)