1) Reading My Antonia
2) Finishing God’s War
3) Working out
4) Learning how to belly dance
5) Boxing
6) Balancing my checkbook
7) Paying medical bills
8) Printing out a new, freshly rewritten copy of tDW
9) Writing a TipTree Award-winning short story
10) Writing email
11) Visualizing myself fitting back into all my old clothes
12) Fitting into all my old clothes
13) Getting a motorcylce lisence
14) Traveling through Belize
15) Sleeping in an airport in London
16) Teaching myself Arabic
17) Flirting with a cabana boy named Enrique
18) Drinking one of those fruity drinks with the umbrella
19) Eating cheese fries
20) Plotting to overthrow the world
What I AM Doing Right Now:
1) Finishing the last six pages of No God But God
2) Eating a nice chunk of low carb, low sugar chocolate
3) Contemplating World Peace
4) Reading “Finisterra”
5) Plotting the contents of two care packages to various friends
6) Wondering why Diet Dr. Pepper tastes so much like Real Dr. Pepper, and if Dr. Pepper can make diet taste like regular, how come no other cola flavors do?
7) Starting to get sick on the chocolate
8) Recharging my iPod
9) Coming up with witty dialogue for God’s War
10) Reminding myself that I’m naturally this size, and the unnatural size was the size I was when I was slowly dying of diabetes
11) Being happy I’m not dying of diabetes (at least, not right away)
12) Putting my old transcripts together so I can sign up for a French class at Truman College in the spring
13) Wondering how long it’s going to take me to get back to yoga
14) Admiring my new 0% interest on transferred balances credit card that just saved me from paying 29% interest on the same $1500 I’ve owed since the last time I went to Europe
15) Planning a trip to Spain
16) Pretending I’m brilliant
17) Savoring the last of that chocoloate
18) Reminding myself that life doesn’t start tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or next year; life just is
19) So really, I should enjoy it
20) Getting back to it
