Ideas that went nowhere after conception:
(Ideas' lifespans range from months to minutes depending on the attitudes of those around me, as you may imagine my mother is responsible for much of the early years, Joe for the remainder, and each of you to varying degrees have played a special role in my failure as well)
1989 - starting a Kid's Bank
1989 - starting a Kid's lending library
1990 - putting on a play
1991 - getting into baseball cards
1991 - training to be a gymnast for the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta
1992 - being good at basketball
1994 - writing a novel about a runaway teenage girl who hitchhikes to get around
1995 - becoming a music journalist
1996 - losing weight and becoming popular
1998 - becoming a salsa dancer
1999 - cross country bike trip
2000 - joining the Peace Corps
2001 - gaining the respect of my peers by publicly caring about the environment
2002 -reading for class sophomore year
2003 - quitting drugs
2003 - writing a screenplay that satirizes hipsters
2005 - novel about a young post-college woman making it in DC
2005 - quitting alcohol
2005 - applying to grad school and becoming a writer of fiction
2006 - starting a zine with Joe
2006 - learning French
2007 - applying to grad school and becoming a librarian
2007 - Trying my hand at acting in local film production, "Skintern"
2007 - learning to draw
2007 - Joining the Peace Corps
2008 - becoming a Belly Dancer
2008 - learning Spanish
2008 - founding a blog to rival BYT
2008 - Puppet Show
2008 - losing weight and becoming popular
(Ideas' lifespans range from months to minutes depending on the attitudes of those around me, as you may imagine my mother is responsible for much of the early years, Joe for the remainder, and each of you to varying degrees have played a special role in my failure as well)
1989 - starting a Kid's Bank
1989 - starting a Kid's lending library
1990 - putting on a play
1991 - getting into baseball cards
1991 - training to be a gymnast for the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta
1992 - being good at basketball
1994 - writing a novel about a runaway teenage girl who hitchhikes to get around
1995 - becoming a music journalist
1996 - losing weight and becoming popular
1998 - becoming a salsa dancer
1999 - cross country bike trip
2000 - joining the Peace Corps
2001 - gaining the respect of my peers by publicly caring about the environment
2002 -reading for class sophomore year
2003 - quitting drugs
2003 - writing a screenplay that satirizes hipsters
2005 - novel about a young post-college woman making it in DC
2005 - quitting alcohol
2005 - applying to grad school and becoming a writer of fiction
2006 - starting a zine with Joe
2006 - learning French
2007 - applying to grad school and becoming a librarian
2007 - Trying my hand at acting in local film production, "Skintern"
2007 - learning to draw
2007 - Joining the Peace Corps
2008 - becoming a Belly Dancer
2008 - learning Spanish
2008 - founding a blog to rival BYT
2008 - Puppet Show
2008 - losing weight and becoming popular
2 comments:
Interesting how some themes recur. What about "Gain fame from the world's most amazing pog/key chain/post card/fortune cookie fortunes collections ever amassed?"
Puppet Show will make you the most money. I'd go with that.
I think if I did one of these lists for myself, I'd just depress myself even more (and I'm already good enough at that).
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