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- 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:
Pilsner
Staroprammen
- Budvar
- Velke Popovice
- U Fleku
Gambrinus
Krusovice
Respond to at least one GOARN request (WHO and MSF are
also acceptable)
Travel across the Atlantic
Return 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 Stirfry
Invite 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 solo
Publish in a scientific journal (top two authors)
Cook a duck or other 'waterfowl'.
Locate the Al-Timimi's from Doha Veterinary Practise
Have a pedicure
Maintain 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 Flanders
Everything is illuminated
Madam Bovary
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance
Catch-22
Odysseus
On 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 wall
Buy a bed, build it, and sleep soundly in it
Go to Africa
Host an 'event' (classified as and when)
Organise a 30th Birthday Party
Wear 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 plants
Take 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 mentor
Be a mentor
Learn what mentoring is all about
Meet an online person in real life
Resist 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 blog
Put 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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*Brrrrriiiinnngggg* ... AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH! |
Friday, 15 December 2006 |
The office phone here, terrifies me. Face-to-face, you can use limbs to demonstrate your needs. Not so, on the phone.
I’ve got a spiel that I say when someone calls for Vlad: “Dobrý den…” “blah blah blah Príkazský” (i.e. his sirname) ”Ah, Pani Doktor Príkazský neni tady, bude asi triset minut, doufam” Ah, Mr Dr Príkazský isn't here, he will be in about 30mins, I hope. ”blah blah blah děkuju” ”Děkuju, na shledanou”
Thus far, this has been accepted, understood and even complimented upon, “your Czech sounds very nice now”. Apparently, it didn't before.
But MAKING a phone call makes me cry, "Please no, don't make me do it *sob*", while collapsing into "rabbits in their burrows" position in my chair, simultaneously doing "wide-eyed stare of horror".
However, the tether terminus was surpassed some time ago; my legs are so hirsute: I’ve no need for tights; and the paint on my toenails is chipped beyond repair. This needs to be addressed. Stat!
Zlaté Stránky: there are 23 pedicure palaces in Prague. TWENTY THREE! So I call one of the two within a 10km radius of my house and my office. Next week is not 'stat'.
Take dvě. “Dobrý den, blah blah blah..” “Dobrý den, mluvíte anglicky?” ”Bohuzel ne, co vas potrebujete?” ”Mluvím trochu český, potřebuju pedikura, a depilace celý nohy, máte čas dneska, nebo zitra?” ”Depilace no, ale pedikura...blah blah moment” ”um...a...ano, moment.” *pause* ”no, máme čas, nejdřív depilace, potom pedikura, patnact hodin.” ”Padnact...” furiously translating, ”dobře, děkuju, přijdu!” “Přijdete? vyborně. jak se jmenuete?” “Naomi, a moje telefon čislo je šest nula osm…” “Naomi, šest nula osm…supr, uvidíme!” “Tak, uvidím, na shledanou.” ”Na shle.”
I felt soooooooo good.
Until I saw the scalpel.
Quick question for comments: Wicked, Lion King, Cabaret, Chicago or Stomp. I can't decide. HELP! |
posted by Nomes @ Friday, December 15, 2006 |
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hahahahaha!
Maybe your funniest post yet.
Still: I'm jealous. Your Czech is better than mine!
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My suggestion, in order: Wicked Cabaret Chicago Stomp or Lion King: loud synchronized banging or techni-color spectacle surrounded by an audience of kiddies?
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Stomp>Lion King>Chicago>Cabaret>Wicked. Nine
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hahahahaha!
Maybe your funniest post yet.
Still: I'm jealous. Your Czech is better than mine!