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evenlake is my personal site. It centers around a list I created in the summer of 2005, a list of 81 things I wanted to do during my lifetime. Some were completed before I created the list, some have been done since that summer, but most have not yet been accomplished. In fact, accomplishing the items is secondary to the attempt to accomplish them. You know, journey, destination, that stuff.

Below are the items I have written about so far.

-Blake

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2. Cross the prime meridian
3. Cross a combined 500 lines of latitude and longitude
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5. Cross the equator
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9. Live in New York City
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14. Visit all seven continents
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17. Go used book shopping in London
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19. Write a novel
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21. Meet a US President
22. Read a poem a day for one year
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26. Have children
27. Attend a legendary baseball game
28. Explain why Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Miles Davis are considered great musicians
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33. Find god(s)
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35. Own a dog
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37. Add 500 birds to my life list
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39. Go birding in South America
40. Create and maintain a personal website
41. Determine which 300 works of art I would put in my dream museum
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45. Quit smoking
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49. Become a skeptic
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54. Spot 100 bird species in a single day
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62. Understand basic structures of storytelling
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64. Define my own literary canon
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