What a Pathetic, Mostly-Empty Bucket...

I don't have many goals or dreams.  So have a series of very small lists.

High School:
I think my number one priority in the next year and a half is to find some sport, any sport, to get back into.  I've played like four or five different sports in my life, but stuck to none of them.  It's past time to try something new.  Maybe cross-country?  I dunno.  Other smaller things include attending a con, going on a long car trip solo (or combine the last two!), going hunting (never actually done that...), and backpacking in the Rockies once more before I go off to college.  And speaking of...

College:
The biggest thing on this list is to hike a significant portion of the Appalachian Trail.  Like... at least over 200 miles.  I could probably do that in a good two weeks... maybe even less.  Who knows?  Other stuff on my list: eating Ramen for every meal for a whole week, just to get the full college experience.  Also, I want to get completely hammered and wake up face-down in a stranger's front lawn, invent something completely useless but file a patent anyway, go to Europe (specifically Great Britain (specifically Cardiff)), and run into some random celebrity in a Starbucks and pretend to have never heard of them (Spoiler Alert: I may not be pretending).

Life:
My number one priority in life: have fun.  Yes, I know.  Cheesy, but so true.  And if that fun leaves me homeless and/or in prison?  Whatever.  No regrets.  Now, the minor stuff on the list.  I wanna climb one of those big peaks.  Either one of the 8000+ meter ones or one of the biggest on each continent.  I've heard Kilamanjaro is the easiest of the latter (maybe I can catch a lift with one of Dr. Swanson's expeditions...).  I also want to... uh... be famous?  Start a chain of Chinese take-out joints and convince everyone that they're authentic?  Piss on some famous monument?  I'm running out of ideas here...


So yeah.  Clearly, some of the above things are facetious.  More are not.  The difficult part is figuring out which are serious and which aren't.  We could make a game out of it!  Write down on a piece of paper all the things you think I was joking about and give it to me between now and Wednesday.  Highest score gets... something?  I'll think of it later.