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Hi, I'm Ash, you may remember me from such LiveJournals as modestic (dead) and fatsothewombat (alive).

This is not my main journal, that remains fatsothewombat; this is a journal specially created for the "101 things in 1001 days" project.

And this is the list...

101 things in 1001 days

(And, yes, I know; some things can fit in to more than one category, so in these cases I’ve arbitrarily decided on which to slot it in to…)

Start Date: 7/1/05
Finish Date: 4/10/08

Writing

1. Write an expanded version of this list, with at least 250 words explaining the reason for each task’s inclusion, and SMART them all.
2. Finish a draft of a novel.
3. Get paid for some writing.
4. Write three letters praising either good service or a good product.
5. Write a short story, just for me, never to be published anywhere.
6. Start a new fanzine.
7. Get a letter printed on The Independent’s letters page.
8. Get a letter printed on Private Eye’s letters page.
9. Write a will.
10. Submit a short story to the New Yorker.
11. Invent a word and use it whenever appropriate.
12. Re-write the Bible, editing out all the rubbish bits (that’s all but 5 words of Leviticus gone for a start, then…).
13. Write a pilot episode for a great new TV sitcom.
14. Write and direct a short movie.
15. Write some fiction in collaboration with someone else.
16. Start to write a huge, lengthy, sci-fi epic.

Reading

17. Read six books; each by an author I have never heard of, chosen solely on the basis of liking the front cover.
18. Make a list of ten books that I really should have read; and read them.
19. Read ten biographies/autobiographies.
20. Read ten books on politics.
21. Start to read book every book I buy within a month of buying it.

Salinger

22. Read the complete published works of JD Salinger (yes, there are still plenty of his short stories I’ve not read yet…).
23. Read the seven known unpublished JD Salinger short stories (The Last and Best of the Peter Pans, The Magic Foxhole, The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls, Two Lonely Men, The Children's Echelon – at Princeton Library; The Male Goodbye/Birthday Boy and Paula/untitled at the University of Texas). Which means physically going to these places and reading them there…
24. Write JD Salinger a letter (I’m not optimistic enough to expect a reply…).
25. Write a 10,000 word article/essay on Catcher in the Rye.
26. Buy a 1951 US hardback of Catcher in the Rye (with photo on back cover).
27. Write the script for a movie of Catcher in the Rye (not that it could ever be filmed…).

Maddie

28. Make Maddie a brother or a sister.
29. Write some stories for Maddie.
30. Compile a DVD about Maddie from the camcorder footage.
31. Read The Catcher in the Rye to Maddie.
32. Take Maddie to Cirencester.
33. Teach Maddie how to ride a tricycle.

Travel

34. Go to Australia.
35. Meet a wombat.
36. Visit Pin Oak Court.
37. Go to an Accrington Stanley home match.
38. Attend a protest rally of some description.
39. Watch the sun set, stay up all night, and then watch the sun rise, in the summer, in the country.
40. Go to a Dr Who convention.

Food & Drink

41. Eat a sandwich on Kirsty MacColl’s park bench.
42. Have a meal at the Fat Duck.
43. Go a month – a 31 day month, mind – without drinking any alcohol.
44. Buy a bottle of red wine costing more that £20. And drink it.
45. Go a week without eating any meat.
46. Buy Tom Baker a drink.
47. Eat nothing from McDonalds for the whole 1001 days.
48. Cook a dozen things I’ve never cooked before.
49. Bake my own bread regularly.

TV & Film

50. Appear on a TV show (in an active capacity).
51. Get a commission for an extra on a Doctor Who DVD.
52. Watch all six Star Wars films, in “story” order, in one sitting.
53. Watch the Twin Peaks film, and then all 30 episodes in one sitting.
54. Watch the whole of Our Friends in the North in one sitting.
55. Find a missing television programme.
56. Ensure that on Day 1001 I own no DVDs that I have not watched.
57. Listen to every (existing) episode of the radio version of Hancock’s Half Hour.
58. Watch every (existing) episode of the TV version of Hancock’s Half Hour (and listen to the couple of episodes for which only off-air soundtracks exist).
59. Make sure I go to the cinema at least once a month.
60. Watch all 111 episodes of Babylon 5 at the rate of one a day, over a 111 day period…
61. …and immediately after watching each, write a review of at least 250 words about the episode just seen.
62. Acquire a copy of the 1986 CBBC TV show, Running Scared.
63. Acquire a copy of the greatest TV out-take of all time; the wombat out of A Country Practice – now what was his name…? – falling off a table…
64. Make a list of ten films I really ought to have seen; and watch them.
65. Write a letter to David Lynch asking for a part in his next film.
66. Get into the habit of not endlessly cycling through the channels when there is nothing decent on; do something else. Read. Write. Watch a DVD…
67. Remake the legendary Accrington Stanley milk advert.

A Trio of Torture

68. Eat a large portion of sprouts.
69. Listen to the album Stars, by Simply Red, in full, from beginning to end.
70. Make a list of my twenty favourite songs, and go a year without listening to them.

A Better Me

71. Read those Mind Gym books.
72. Become an analyst.
73. Learn to drive.
74. Buy a car.
75. Take a course of some kind – either at a college or on-line.
76. Get in to the patter of doing at least some kind of exercise at least once a week.
77. Run 5 miles.
78. Attend at least one aikido class.
79. Learn to juggle with 4 balls.
80. Conquer my fear of standing in front of a room of people and making a presentation.
81. Learn another language – if only to a very basic level. Either Arabic, Japanese or Mandarin Chinese… (Yeah. I know; with each as well as learning how to speak the lingo, there’s a whole new alphabet also…)

Random

82. Redesign the website so it looks good.
83. “Complete” Bubble Bobble (GBA or Emulated Arcade) using only 1 credit, using no umbrellas and not going through the Level 20, 30, 40 and (especially) 50 doors.
84. Place a £23 bet on something.
85. Go to a gig by a band I’ve never heard of just because I like the sound of their name.
86. Sing karaoke. Once.
87. Get a tattoo.
88. Start a hoax and have it disproved by snopes.com.
89. Give a complete stranger a Christmas present.
90. Put a message in a bottle, and throw it in the Thames.
91. Empty out all the stuff that’s still in my old bedroom at my mum’s house.
92. Stop biting my nails.
93. Sort out life insurance for me and the Mrs.
94. Buy at least one new item of clothing a month.
95. Go to a Big Brother audition.
96. Get my hair cut six times a year.
97. Sell 100 things on eBay (or similar).
98. Spend a whole weekend in bed – only getting up to use the facilities.
99. Go a whole day without saying a word.
100. Put £1 in a jar, every day, for the first 1,000 days…
101. …then on day 1001 spend every single penny!

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