new year, new list

2011:

Get a tattoo!

Learn to drive

Publish an essay on Tolkien

Let someone in

Visit Calcutta

Learn German

Eat only chocolate for a week

Pay my own way back to Europe

Read more Shelley

Fall in love

Read everything by Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot

Drink absinthe

Watch Real Madrid play, live

Dance an Argentine tango

2010:

Visit the Bronte parsonage and the Lake district

Find three new friends

Find a job

Writhe in the pangs of an intellectual crush

Climb up Arthur’s Seat

Read more Tolkien criticism

See how long my hair can grow before it absolutely has to be cut