Confessions of an idle mind

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Happy Holidays (from a non-believer to the deserving) ;)

FINALLY, I have some time off from college which is a relief because the last semester was draining. I have been trying to catch up with some things on my to-do list.
Out of that list I was able to accomplish the following:
a.)Watch "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (which turned out to be a great movie. Listening to "Moon River" has become somewhat of a daily ritual for me along with "plastic Jesus."
b.)Watch "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (which did not disappoint! )
c.)Watch the new Sherlock Holmes movie (you can never go wrong with Guy Ritchie)
d.)Watch Avatar (which I did due to peer pressure. It gave me a bad migraine.)
e.)Read "Of Human Bondage" by Somerset Maugham (which i should finish today/tomorrow. So far, it is one of the best books I've ever read.)
f.)Write as often as I can. (While the results have been extemely frustrating, I am still persevering. So far, my longest "essay" has been on my verbal constipation.)
g.)Watch "Manhattan". ( I find Woody Allen IRRESISTIBLE).
h.)Watch Lewis Black's stand-up daily to keep me sane.


The following are yet to be accomplished but should (hopefully) be done within the next twenty days:
a.) Learn some token Spanish.
b.) Read Anna Karenina and the complete works of O Henry.
c.) TRY to read about and understand some basic Keynesian theories.
d.) Watch Vertigo, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, Gone with the wind, and the countless other movies that I've always wanted to watch.
e.) Go to New York City and try out some of the vegan cafes.
f.) Work enough to save some money for the Jethro Tull concert in the summer.
g.) Try to read Pale Fire, Ada or anything other than Lolita by Nabakov because I want to impress someone whose favorite author is Nabakov.
h.) Figure out any one thing that i really want to do in my life.
i.) Learn basic 3 dimensional calculus.
j.) Try to use facebook more so that my friends stop complaining about me playing hide-and-seek.
k.) Volunteer at the tutoring center.
l.) Meet someone more often. But for that i would have to learn how to stop making an ass of myself every time I meet him.