26 in 26

Last year I started a tradition of making birthday resolutions. The goal is to complete a number of tasks or goals in a year. The number of tasks equals my age. I didn’t even manage half of my resolutions from last year, but I find something soothing about this list-making and goal-setting practice. More satisfying to me than accomplishing things on this list was seeing how many of the items were simply… no longer important. Accomplishing them was just frosting – a nice perk to the last 365 days of my life rather than an imperative need.

Here it goes: my 26 in 26. (In no particular order.)

1. Get a dog.
2. Finish the HackVT app content.
3. Finish writing Drinking with Galatea.
4. Go on a trip. Plane required.
5. Get into the Christmas spirit.
6. Read S.
7. Ski an absurd number of days.
8. Take snowboard lessons.
9. Be a good long distance friend.
10. Get a new car.
11. Get a PO Box.
12. Do Tuckerman Ravine this spring.
13. Find a nice, dog-friendly apartment.
14. Tag along on a sugaring session.
15. Stop biting my cuticles.
16. Explore southern VT.
17. Pay off one student loan.
18. Bike the Dirty 40 or an entire Century Ride
19. Start swimming again.
20. Swim from camp to the sandbar and back.
21. Watch Man on Wire.
22. Read A Moveable Feast.
23. Drink loose leaf tea more often.
24. Take a photography class.
25. (Re)read The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays.
26. Go camping.

That’s about it, guys. xo