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Rants, raves and random observations from an itinerant epidemiologist.

 
100 in 1000
  1. Spend a week up a mountain learning to ski
  2. Visit Karoline's place in Moravia
  3. Hold a conversation in Czech (only)
  4. Drink 500ml of each of the following beers:
    1. Pilsner
    2. Staroprammen
    3. Budvar
    4. Velke Popovice
    5. U Fleku
    6. Gambrinus
    7. Krusovice
  5. Respond to at least one GOARN request (WHO and MSF are also acceptable)
  6. Travel across the Atlantic
  7. Return to South America
  8. Read a book to, or with, an impressionably aged child
  9. Participate in one NanoWriMo Challenge and come within at least 10,000 words of the goal length
  10. Have my nose pierced
  11. Have my next tattoo drawn
  12. Purchase the perfect jeans (x 2 pairs)
  13. Attend a spin class 3 times a week for 8 consecutive weeks
  14. Bake Viv's cheesecake
  15. Make David's casserole
  16. Make David's Chicken Cashew-nut Stirfry
  17. Invite 4 people who don't know one another too well to dinner
  18. Ride from Vienna to Venice on a motorbike (pillion acceptable, those less desirable)
  19. Attend a book group for at least two books
  20. Go on a choir weekend (learn and perform difficult piece in two/three days)
  21. Visit Madame Tussaud's (in London)
  22. Take an architecture appreciation course
  23. Join an all-girl group and sing a solo
  24. Publish in a scientific journal (top two authors)
  25. Cook a duck or other 'waterfowl'.
  26. Locate the Al-Timimi's from Doha Veterinary Practise
  27. Have a pedicure
  28. Maintain a Brazilian (ouch) for three months.
  29. Find a trustworthy Czech hairdresser
  30. Treat my inner-6-year-old twice a week (at least)
  31. Do the liver-cleansing diet properly (12 weeks)
  32. Don't eat out for one month
  33. Find a flat and flatmate
  34. Purchase one Joseph sweater
  35. Purchase one of the following pairs of designer shoes (they MUST also be COMFORTABLE, and be able to be worn with 4 different outfits and 2 types of occasion): Jimmy Choos, Manolo Blahniks, Christian Louboutin (Ebay or 2nd hand are acceptable)
  36. Send 5 books to the booksphere and track them.
  37. Go hanggliding
  38. Read 10 'classic' books (from 1001 Books to Read before you Die)
    1. Moll Flanders
    2. Everything is illuminated
    3. Madam Bovary
    4. Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance
    5. Catch-22
    6. Odysseus
    7. On the Road
  1. Run (non-stop!) for 5kms outside (preferably in a street race thingy)
  2. Send Christmas Cards on time
  3. Make a collage/mural out of street lights on my wall
  4. Buy a bed, build it, and sleep soundly in it
  5. Go to Africa
  6. Host an 'event' (classified as and when)
  7. Organise a 30th Birthday Party
  8. Wear a costume
  9. Sing on stage
  10. Buy a painting that evokes memories of Prague (cannot involve queues!)
  11. Learn a god-damned card game that stays in my memory (other than fish/snap)
  12. See sunrise. Be sober. Have woken for it. Excludes months Nov-Mar
  13. Take a walk and flip coins at each intersection
  14. Win something
  15. Draft a will
  16. Take a roadtrip
  17. Go to Italy already
  18. Sea Kayak around Abel Tasman Park (NZ)
  19. Get plants
  20. Take a train to another Eastern European Destination (accession countries are acceptable) alone preferably.
  21. Get UK to give me a provisional motorcyclists license and simultaneously get a 'card' license.
  22. Go SCUBA diving again - at least two dives lasting 30mins each.
  23. Go to a dentist. *sigh*
  24. Do a Czech Wine Trail. And live to tell the tale
  25. Make an 'outbreak emergency kit'.
  26. Go to bed prior to 11pm every night (inc weekends) for four consecutive weeks.
  27. Marvel over lack of tiredness
  28. Dine at a Gordon Ramsey restaurant (or Nobu)- preferably for free.
  29. Bet on the nags
  30. Do something for charity (applying and getting a 'red card' will count)
  31. Walk along the Champs Elysee
  32. Do 100 sit ups in a row
  33. Do 50 pressups (arms in tight)
  34. Make branston pickle (or nearest substitute)
  35. Cook something 'new' and 'adventurous' at least once a month
  36. Find a mentor
  37. Be a mentor
  38. Learn what mentoring is all about
  39. Meet an online person in real life
  40. Resist the flirt. Once. Just one night. It's okay if people don't immediately succumb to my natural charm. Really it is.
  41. Spend time at a spa (spa towns in the CR don't count)
  42. Send a care package to someone
  43. Get a Tata Bojs CD
  44. Take a French/German/Dutch course and SPEAK THE DAMNED LANGUAGE WHEN I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY EVEN THOUGH IT MAKES ME SOUND LIKE AN IDIOT!
  45. Order new contact lenses.
  46. Make a list of things I take with me when I pack for different occasions
  47. Eat lobster. Prepared by someone else.
  48. Back up the blog
  49. Put everything onto an external hard drive
  50. Find a DDR mat and console and 'dance, I say dance!'�
  51. Go to the beach and lie on the warm sand. For an hour. (with sunscreen on, natch)
  52. Take and complete a course in either: Tango, Salsa or Flamenco
  53. Join the Municipal Library of Prague
  54. Move to another country
  55. Go to a live concert of a band I actually like
  56. Pay off debts (student loan excl.)
  57. Send thank you cards for every gift I receive (other than the gift of happiness, blah blah blah).
  58. Get an agent (literary or theatre)
  59. Go to a sports bar without cringing, by personal choice
  60. Ride a rollercoaster
  61. Hold a snake
  62. Spend a day wandering around a museum (not art gallery!)
Wow...
Saturday 24 September 2005
Turns out people DO read my crazy blog: hi to les parents, lil bro Rowls, lil sis Rach and the all spesh Lira! :)
Anyway, just a really quick update today - since my sleeps are restless and my days are filled with roaming the streets to tire me out so that I sleep well (why is this not working?).
Today I went to the World Press Photo exhibition which I missed (by one day - damned Les Mis) in Wellington. I somehow suspect that the Wellington exhibition was better - in more space, with more photos. i almost bought the book because looking at them in that would have been preferable. Still: fave photo? A sandstorm approach. I've seen it for real and it does actually look exactly as threatening as that. Yay to the photographer for getting it so well.
Then I spent about two hours lounging in the main square. In the sun. I watched butterflies drinking nectar from flowers that bees had already attempted to empty. I was right underneath it all (there's not many places to 'sunbathe' here, so one does what one can.
I learnt today that in teh war of new shoes vs. feet, new shoes always win. Plasters all over mine are testament to that fact. And these are 'new' from Melbourne trip - before any of you get all het up about me having ALREADY bought shoes. FYI - I haven't. Though I HAVE started looking (this is akin to "nomes settling down").
I found out that to get ones legs waxed, one should go to Yves Rocher - less painful, and they do actually know what a Brazilian is. I found out the name of the best gynacologist in town (oooh gooody). I also found out that visiting the gyne is probably as much 'action' as I'm going to see (bar the porn films, obviously) since expat blokes go for the 'tits on sticks' that the Czech girls have been renamed and Czech blokes are just not worthy (they either treat women like poo, or are after Canadian/American women for their passport opportunities). So yeah...two years of no sex. Apparently. Will update you on that - with ample warning for Dad to LOOK AWAY NOW!!! ;)
Tonight we were at a mate of P's place's party (make sense?) - which is where I gleaned all this information. Since htey all work for vodafone (or rather, Oskar, a recent vodafone acquisition) they were discussing the foibles of their CEO's, COO's, CFO's etc.. Apparently, (without divulging too much for fear of a big 'quotation mark' sized lawsuit) there is a wall that cost a lot of money - built of sticks - in the building. Ahh, the excesses of the corporates. While we, out in the national institute of public health, struggle to pay our technicians to isolate bacteria. (not necessarily true - i'm merely painting a picture, I didn't say the colours had to be the RIGHT colours) I love life. Apparently, one doesn't get into the field of health for financial benefits - but for opportunity. Er, exactly when does the opportunity to drape myself in couture arrive? That's the one I was aiming for, damnit.
So yeah...not too much to report I'm afraid. Am starting to get a little nervous about the whole Menorca trip now. I don't know whether we'll need pens/paper (does this mean I can do a stationary shop?) and I need a smaller suitcase than the one I have (which is HUGE) but mine haven't arrived here yet. I also need new batteries for my calculator...(it's just like your first week at school, only more scary!).
Gotago sleep - it's late. XXX to you all.
posted by Nomes @ Saturday, September 24, 2005  
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