Summer Bucket List

I've been taking some time to decompress after school let out last Friday- there's been plenty of Criminal Minds, Orphan Black, SumbleUpon, bubble tea, Relay for Life, and Vampire Red hair dye in my little corner of the world! This, of course, has been wonderful and all, but it's simply not how I operate. There's only so many Viagra commercials a girl can endure.

So, I've been working on devising a game plan for the next 74 days and have come up with this:
Do
Learn how to code
Write to n international pen pal
Train my *butt* off for cross country season
Color guard, and lots of it.
Color guard camp!
Go to a DCI show
Get my paper on the "lesbian sexual revolution" published by the Concord Review
Get my research on grapheme-color synesthesia or my upcoming paper published by the Journal for Emerging Investigators
Go to a few Improv Playhouse shows with my gbf
Make red bean ice cream
Shoot videos with ButCanWe?
Draw and paint
Make a Commonplace Book (what's that? funny you should ask)
Attend Pride
Attend as many other festivals I can drive to
Make a new friend or two
Have an old friend or two over for a vegan dinner
Make it onto Thought Catalog
Spend a lot of time browsing Thought Catalog
DIY DIY DIY
Attend a Poetry Slam
Learn to lucid dream
Learn how to take pictures better than a five year old
Visit Colleges
Go to San Diego
Write a swing flag/ 6 ft flag/ rifle routine for V-Show to The Joy of Discovery (Bill Nye) or Ashes Like Snow (Lily Kershaw)
NPR

Reading List
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
The Elegant Universe by Brian Green
Letters to my Daughter by my hero, Maya Angelou
The Future of the Mind by my other hero, Michio Kaku
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Inferno by Dan Brown (don't judge me)
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
David and Goliath by Malcom Gladwell
Being and Nothingness by Jean Paul Satre
The Autobiography of Malcom X by guess who
The Fault in Our Stars by John Greene
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Free Will by Sam Harris
Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton
The Skeptical Inquirer (magazine) I have a stack of these in my room begging to be read
The Stand by Stephen King
Heat Wave by Richard Castle (still no judging)

To Watch
But I'm a Cheerleader
Amelie
The Matrix
The Help
Dr. Strangelove
The Devil's Double
Casablanca
Requiem for a Dream
Precious
The Godfather
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Zeitgeist: The Movie
Psycho
The King's Speech
Good Will Hunting
rewatch Contact
Primer
Memento
Memoirs of a Geisha
Pi
Black Swan
Inland Empire
2001: A Space Odyssey
Citizen Kane
Fight Club
Jacob's Ladder
Dead Poets Society
American History X
The Silence of the Lambs
Pan's Labyrinth
The Fountain

Projects
Independent Research Projects:
Scientific Study- The Effects of Adenosine on Sleep Deprived Divergent Thought
Historical Research- The Evolution of Conspiracy Theories (I want to finally visit The Newberry)
Sew my prom dress
Make and play the glass harp

Goals
Bust out those college apps
Catch a 5 on rifle
Get solid double ballet and jazz pirouettes on both sides
Start pulling triples on left
Eat 2 vegan meals per day by the end of the summer
Maybe finally start to sell my crafts and baked goods (been putting it off since three summers ago)
Become a traceuse
Don't kill the garden

The Journey Begins

Ren-ais-sance Wo-man
noun: a person who has wide interests and is expert in several areas

...and so my quest to become well versed in everything begins.