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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:
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
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| Where did it come from? |
| Tuesday, 3 April 2007 |
 When I moved to Prague - from Wellington - I had 14 boxes of 'stuff' and one overweight suitcase (to the tune of NZ$500ish). Since then I've purchased a bed, a television, some storage boxes and a shopmakers dummy.
So explain to me, the laws of physics that resulted in it taking me 5 VW Polo loads to get all the REST of my stuff (that wasn't the bed, the chest of drawers and the television) from one house to another? I am shattered. I can't feel my shins. Have you any idea how hard it is to walk when you can't feel your shins??
Still: it's done. If, by done, we agree to mean 'all Nomes's belongings are under the new roof' and aren't going to dispute the whole 'and scattered about the lounge' ending to that sentence too much. Ah yes, that's your Nomes: testing the limits of new flatmates patience, in the first weekend!
Meanwhile, two of my old school friends are pregnant - both fit to burst in May/June/July time. Another friend has just got married, and they're already pregnant (go on, say it: SHOTGUN!) due in November. Someone else has just started a business on their own, and they're making cash hand-over-fist and another someone else has just finished their own PhD.
I mentioned 'wistfully looking at dog owners' the other day and she patted me on the arm and said, "welcome to your 30's - when you shall want to nurture and love something other than yourself". Surely that's impossible?
What i really want to know is when do I start feeding stray cats, dying my hair blue, wearing quilting, and smelling of urine? Because frankly, my DLR's, the internet profiles of people who 'send me an icebreaker' or 'IM me' or 'PM me' are enough to render even the most hardened closet-romantic into choosing life-on-the-shelf. Anything has to be better than going to coffee with people "hoo rite wo pnktuashun/splchk/cr 4 i's common ppl".
But hey! I live in Prague!Labels: Observations on Life |
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Hey! Glad you like the new look. It has some problems, not the least of which is that two different commenting systems are enabled. but oh well.
could you do me a favor? pretty please?
use your talents to write a review on plublogs.com?
http://www.plublogs.com/topblogz/
just be honest and yourself. which i know you will be.
thanks!
I will return the favor.
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Fun! I'd love to design a masthead photo for you. Send me some photos or should I just grab off your flickr account?
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I don't think I *own* 14 boxes of stuff... But then I was a serial flatter, so things were pretty whittled by the time I moved in with M. Congratulations on moving in!! And you don't need your shins to crawl to the fridge for a congratulatory drink ;) "Welcome to your 30's - when you shall want to nurture and love something other than yourself"?? Take heart - I'm 37 and unable to nurture a bathroom plant that (according to its tag) "thrives on neglect"... (yep, it's dead). You're not missing out on anything being un-pregnant/single etc. You're in Prague, fiendishly close to research on an epidemic half the world is in terror of, speaking an exotic, 007esque language... I could go on, but you've heard it before :) You're great, Nomes, and things will work out the best for you. mx
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Hmmph. You try moving out of a place where you've lived, over the course of two and a half years, with approximately 17 other people (including one epiet scholar currently living in Prague who shall remain nameless, but who managed to leave a LOT of stuff behind hidden in cupboards when she left!).
I carried and drove, loaded and unloaded, sweated and swore for 3 days, 15 hours a day, last weekend. And that was nothing compared to ana and bonnie who had been slaving for a week!
bah
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Hi can you tell me whats the monthly salary now of an EPIET fellow in Prague is it still 200 euro as you said in your first post, or has it changed?? By the way which institute will you recommend for EPIET fellow form cohort 13?? Please reply to me at modelg@rambler.ru. thanks in advance for your reply and wishing you all the best i loved reading your blog:))
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check my flickr account nomes. the draft version of your new banner is there.
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You mean to tell me that I adopted my cat because I am getting old and I am nesting?
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No. It's TOTALLY the bitchin' way in which she coordinates with your current decor. TOTALLY.
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Hey! Glad you like the new look. It has some problems, not the least of which is that two different commenting systems are enabled. but oh well.
could you do me a favor? pretty please?
use your talents to write a review on plublogs.com?
http://www.plublogs.com/topblogz/
just be honest and yourself. which i know you will be.
thanks!
I will return the favor.