crossed out

  1. Live in Boston 2009
  2. Master’s Degree
  3. Become self-actualized, again (again) 2011
  4. Deeply connect 2011
  5. Complete a No-shave November 2008
  6. Tip of Maine
  7. Complete Mustache March
  8. Own all C.S. Lewis
  9. Be published
  10. Play another show 2009
  11. Record another song 2010
  12. Cliche rain kiss 2009
  13. Take a moonlit hammock nap with someone
  14. Fenway 2011
  15. Be a best man 2010
  16. Speak at a wedding reception 2010
  17. Paint something
  18. Smoke a cigar atop a skyscraper
  19. Learn to appreciate jazz 2009
  20. Return to the Fox 2009
  21. Finish my third-person autobiography
  22. Return to the spot my near death experience 2011
  23. Book Loft, Columbus
  24. Camp again
  25. Live past 27
  26. Elizabethtown (why not?)
  27. Silent Hill
  28. Ireland
  29. Great-grandma’s grave
  30. Adopt a child
  31. Quit quitting things unnecessarily 2008
  32. Meet Conor Oberst 2009
  33. Get paid to do something I love 2010
  34. Live in a loft
  35. Fly fish
  36. Run an organized 5K
  37. Go on a cleanse diet
  38. Get licensed
  39. Name one of my children Troy
  40. Be fluent in another language
  41. Complete my list of must see movies
  42. Buy a new Mac 2009
  43. Have dinner ready
  44. Quit Coach 2009
  45. Spend an abnormal amount of time in Annapolis, MD 2009
  46. Go on another random road trip 2011
  47. Learn ever major tie knot 2010
  48. Own an espresso machine
  49. Return to Cigar Masters in Boston
  50. Teach someone guitar
  51. Own all Conor on all formats
  52. Take my children to their first show
  53. Run an organized 10K
  54. Pass notes in class, again 2008
  55. Louvre
  56. Finish the Duluoz legend
  57. Love someone from here ’til the end
  58. Fill 12 cahiers in one year
  59. Keep just one of my secrets 2009
  60. Send in a Postsecret
  61. Have the world’s greatest collection of coffee table books Started 2008
  62. Marry someone who bakes for me
  63. Read all Camus
  64. Learn the entirety of Blackbird
  65. Learn to sword fight
  66. Be an extra in a film
  67. Have my portrait painted
  68. Visit each continent (except Antarctica)
  69. Sleep for forty-eight hours straight
  70. Pull an all-nighter, for a reason 2009
  71. Have a happy New Year
  72. Visit the brewery where Guinness is brewed
  73. Visit New York City via Boston Chinatown express
  74. Order ‘cold tea’ at two in the morning in Chinatown, Boston
  75. Swim in the Charles
  76. Sleep in an airport 2009
  77. Own only as many suits as necessary
  78. Bike to work
  79. Write a letter to a hero
  80. Show someone around my hometown 2008
  81. See DKM on St. Patrick’s Day in Boston
  82. Sleep on a roof
  83. Re-learn piano
  84. Own 33 skinny ties
  85. Fatherly advice
  86. Have a chauffeured date
  87. Make solid A’s 2010
  88. Jog with my son
  89. Build a treehouse
  90. Drink Sam Adams Utopia
  91. Make a friend on a subway
  92. Marry a BE girl
  93. Throw a desktop out of a window, onto a city street
  94. Chicago
  95. Let someone see my old journals 2011
  96. Start wearing purple, wearing purple 2009
  97. Sing Auld Lang Syne with two million drunk Bostonians
  98. Get a tattoo in a friend’s handwriting 2011
  99. Pay for dinner for a group
  100. Yard work
  101. Confessions
  102. Theater effect
  103. Christmas
  104. Go to work via subway
  105. March 26 2011
  106. See my brother graduate
  107. Wear a tie every day for a year
  108. See Barcelona play at Camp Nou
  109. June on the west coast
  110. Make a poorly drawn comic of my life every night for 33 nights
  111. Sleep in someone else’s bed without them ever knowing 2009
  112. Wear nice clothes when flying 2010
  113. Write a novella in one weekend. Even if it’s horrible
  114. Go to a Tao Lin book reading 2009
  115. Stay up all night with someone and watch Ed Wood movies
  116. Top of the hub
  117. Take a train along the west coast 2010
  118. Drive along the great lakes
  119. Canada
  120. Meet Tao Lin 2009
  121. Go a month without a cell phone 2011
  122. Back to the city 2011
  123. Kerouac tattoo
  124. Red moon tattoo
  125. Go to another Celtics game
  126. Fill that Moleskine
  127. Adopt a cat 2011
  128. Spend at least 42 hours straight with someone I don’t live with 2011
  129. See Bon Iver live
  130. Run five miles again
  131. Back to 170
  132. Gain acceptance to a different Master’s program (Scratched)
  133. Get another promotion
  134. Live in Asheville
  135. Call an old dude out for staring at a chick’s butt
  136. Rock Hall 2011
  137. Her 21st
  138. Inspire
  139. See my name in print