| 100 in 1000 |
- Spend a week up a mountain learning to ski
- Visit Karoline's place in Moravia
Hold a conversation in Czech (only)- Drink 500ml of each of the following beers:
PilsnerStaroprammen- Budvar
- Velke Popovice
- U Fleku
GambrinusKrusovice
Respond to at least one GOARN request (WHO and MSF are
also acceptable)Travel across the AtlanticReturn to South America- Read a book to, or with, an impressionably aged child
- Participate in one NanoWriMo Challenge and come within at least 10,000 words of the goal length
Have my nose pierced- Have my next tattoo drawn
Purchase the perfect jeans (x 2 pairs)- Attend a spin class 3 times a week for 8 consecutive weeks
- Bake Viv's cheesecake
Make David's casserole Make David's Chicken Cashew-nut StirfryInvite 4 people who don't know one another too well to dinner- Ride from Vienna to Venice on a motorbike (pillion acceptable, those less desirable)
- Attend a book group for at least two books
- Go on a choir weekend (learn and perform difficult piece in two/three days)
- Visit Madame Tussaud's (in London)
- Take an architecture appreciation course
Join an all-girl group and sing a soloPublish in a scientific journal (top two authors)Cook a duck or other 'waterfowl'. Locate the Al-Timimi's from Doha Veterinary PractiseHave a pedicureMaintain a Brazilian (ouch) for three months.Find a trustworthy Czech hairdresser- Treat my inner-6-year-old twice a week (at least)
- Do the liver-cleansing diet properly (12 weeks)
- Don't eat out for one month
Find a flat and flatmate- Purchase one Joseph sweater
- 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)
- Send 5 books to the booksphere and track them.
- Go hanggliding
- Read 10 'classic' books (from 1001 Books to Read before you Die)
Moll FlandersEverything is illuminatedMadam BovaryZen & the Art of Motorcycle MaintainanceCatch-22OdysseusOn the Road
- Run (non-stop!) for 5kms outside (preferably in a street race thingy)
- Send Christmas Cards on time
Make a collage/mural out of street lights on my wallBuy a bed, build it, and sleep soundly in itGo to AfricaHost an 'event' (classified as and when)Organise a 30th Birthday PartyWear a costume- Sing on stage
- Buy a painting that evokes memories of Prague (cannot involve queues!)
Learn a god-damned card game that stays in my memory (other than fish/snap)See sunrise. Be sober. Have woken for it. Excludes months Nov-Mar- Take a walk and flip coins at each intersection
Win something- Draft a will
- Take a roadtrip
Go to Italy already- Sea Kayak around Abel Tasman Park (NZ)
Get plantsTake a train to another Eastern European Destination (accession countries are acceptable) alone preferably.- Get UK to give me a provisional motorcyclists license and simultaneously get a 'card' license.
- Go SCUBA diving again - at least two dives lasting 30mins each.
Go to a dentist. *sigh*- Do a Czech Wine Trail. And live to tell the tale
- Make an 'outbreak emergency kit'.
- Go to bed prior to 11pm every night (inc weekends) for four consecutive weeks.
- Marvel over lack of tiredness
- Dine at a Gordon Ramsey restaurant (or Nobu)- preferably for free.
Bet on the nags- Do something for charity (applying and getting a 'red card' will count)
- Walk along the Champs Elysee
- Do 100 sit ups in a row
- Do 50 pressups (arms in tight)
- Make branston pickle (or nearest substitute)
- Cook something 'new' and 'adventurous' at least once a month
Find a mentorBe a mentorLearn what mentoring is all aboutMeet an online person in real lifeResist the flirt. Once. Just one night. It's okay if people don't immediately succumb to my natural charm. Really it is.Spend time at a spa (spa towns in the CR don't count)- Send a care package to someone
Get a Tata Bojs CD- 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!
- Order new contact lenses.
Make a list of things I take with me when I pack for different occasions- Eat lobster. Prepared by someone else.
Back up the blogPut everything onto an external hard drive- Find a DDR mat and console and 'dance, I say dance!'�
- Go to the beach and lie on the warm sand. For an hour. (with sunscreen on, natch)
- Take and complete a course in either: Tango, Salsa or Flamenco
- Join the Municipal Library of Prague
- Move to another country
Go to a live concert of a band I actually like- Pay off debts (student loan excl.)
Send thank you cards for every gift I receive (other than the gift of happiness, blah blah blah).- Get an agent (literary or theatre)
- Go to a sports bar without cringing, by personal choice
- Ride a rollercoaster
- Hold a snake
Spend a day wandering around a museum (not art gallery!) |
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| Tuesday 21 February 2006 |
Things are good in London - even the weather isn't completely pants. It's such a damned expensive city though...but I've caught up with Rachel - we went to Les Mis and mouthed/cried/laughed our way through it; Nerissa - who took us to Burrough (sp?) markets (WOW) and Konditori & Cook (yum); and Allison, Colin, Amanda, Bonnie & Jo from the New Years party in Edinburgh (which was fantastic...I love hanging out with that gang...they're just so darned accepting and friendly) as well as Mark B as well (friend from Uni) and all have been introduced to Umit (friend from Doha College - we go WAAAAAY back!).
Umit left today, so my intention is to go feed the swans in Hyde Park (it's one of those personal traditions that you develop when you spend SOOO many yawning hours by yourself), and hopefully, neither of us will sneeze upon the other (I have a cold...). The other thing on my list is to locate a NZ Braeburn apple...*drool* I haven't had a crisp and crunchy apple in 6 months now...
Yesterday, the WHO called. I answered the phone with a frog (actually, an entire spawning ground) in my throat, thinking "why are Geneva calling?" *excited shiver*. Turns out, they were asking wehther i'd be available to head back into Azerbaijan for a further 4 to 6 weeks (clearly, the authorities have yet to stumble across THIS missive). So, I checked with my boss, who said 'yep' (well, it's good for my institute too...to have a Czech representative in the field...looks v. good on internal documents etc) and checked with EPIET who said, "we'd rather not...".
Turns out that they're not overly fond of WHO asking for particular people, and would rather send people into the field based on skill-sets rather than personality. Now that is fine, understandable etc, and I totally appreciate that EPIET also have to distribute international missions as they see fit - to hopefully allow all of the wee fellows (of which i'm just one) a 'turn'. however, surely, surely, if a body are asking for a particular person, because of the good experience they had working with that person being where they were sent, then it makes sense to send that person? I think that, had it been someone else going on a second mission to the same place they'd gone to, I wouldn't feel too put out, I'd understand that the subtext that people learn about while they're in the field has a lot of importance when they return - it's not so easy to hand over intuition along the lines of, "I think this guy is on the make, but I can't be sure...it's just something about the way he talks about his children getting sent to overseas universities, married up with his tattoos and his inability to distribute..." it's all a bit wishy washy, not to mention slanderous.
HOwever, because I FEEL those things about that person, whenever I ask my questions of them, I check, double check, and attempt to find potholes in their stories...and I can't advise someone else to 'go after them like a terrier on crack...' because that person would think I'm insane.
So I've done what I thought best. Answered in the affirmative to WHO, and at the same time, proposed that the other EPIET person that EPIET have put forward come along too, as the IC person. Together, we'd be a great team (and hopefully, we could find an apartment in baku, instead of staying in a hotel all the time).
So now we wait....
In the meantime, take a look at this. It's basically a personality thing. You can see how I view myself - I want to see what adjectives you'd use to describe me (also, I'm judging how well you ACTUALLY know your Nomes!). Check out: THIS BUTTON and have a play. AND...there'll be t-shirts to the person who gets me most correct. |
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