List #546: Things I learned from reading "Born to Run"

List #546: Things I learned from reading "Born to Run"

1. Every once and awhile I do get swept up in the book that 'everybody's reading'

2. As much as the book made me think it would be awesome, I'll never be a distance runner

3. I would like to be barefoot more (some place once made me think that "shoes at all times" was a truth)

4. I want to try the foods they talk about

5. Proctor, MN is important

6. I should eat better and be nicer

7. Evolutionary Biology is cool

8. Drug Cartels are bad (and that's why drugs are bad)

List #458: 5 People that Have Taught Me Something, vol.1

List #458: 5 People that Have Taught Me Something (and one example of what it was), Volume 1

1. Ms. Jablonski, 10th grade History (10 Rs of the '20s, see list)

2. Mr. Spehar, 4th grade (just be smart, not a smartass )

3. Josh, my camp counselor and first co-counselor (how to tie a bowline-on-a-bight knot)

4. Professor Melinda Russell, Carleton College (that College is harder than High School (and many other awesome things about music in the world))

5. C3P-0 and R2d2, 'droids on TV Commercials (that Smoking is Bad)

List #407: A few things I learned on the ski-trip this weekend

List #407: A few things I learned skiing this weekend

1. Skis are tiny now!

2. I still know how to do it.

3. I don't mind being the dork that skis in sweat-pants (I had pj pants underneath for 'layering'), but never jeans!

4. Approximately every other person there (Blue Knob, PA) was #7 for the steelers (and wearing jeans)

5. Ice and rain aren't the best conditions

6. Chairlifts are still scary (especially with small children)

7. Broken glass is the greater danger of walking barefoot through the snow

8. I ought to ski more often

9. Younger kids are hilarious.

10. Good gloves are key.

List #365: Things I have learned while writing Lists

List #365: Things I have learned while writing Lists

1. It's fun to write lists
2. I can sustain a daily writing project for a year
3. I have a lot of cool friends
4. It's more fun to write if people are reading it
5. Comments are fun
6. I like attention
7. I've done a lot of cool things in my life
8. Writing lists is hard sometimes
9. Sometimes I'm clever
10. Most people read my lists on Facebook, but a few people found it on the wild internets
11. I've got more lists in me, so I'm probably going to continue to write lists, but not daily (at least for this year)
12. Probably some sort of deep thing about my true self, or something

List #363: Ways TV has made me a better person

List #363: Ways TV has made me a better person, or things I have learned (and the show that did it)

1. The alphabet is awesome and people are different and a million other things(Sesame Street (PBS FTW!))
2. Books are awesome (Reading Rainbow (though that's more reinforcement))
3. Knowing is Half the Battle (G.I. JOE)
4. Politcs are interesting and I should care about them (The West Wing)
5. School Librarianship is exciting (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
6. History is awesome (Connections)
7. Family is important, no matter how crazy (Arrested Development)
8. Good Police are valuable, and also Stay out of Baltimore(The Wire)
9. It's okay to wear suits and nice clothing (How I Met Your Mother (Barney))
10. Our Planet and it's inhabitants matter (any animal show, and I watched A LOT of them when I was younger... and now)

Bonus list: Ways TV has misled me
1. Unrealistic expectations for ease of romance (pretty much all tv)
2. Being a lawyer means wearing awesome clothes and giving awesome speeches all the time (Boston Legal)

List #241: Important stuff I learned from my Dad

List #241: Important stuff I learned from my Dad

1. YES, Steely Dan, Miles Davis (and Jazz etc.)
2. Dune
3. Bass players: use their fingers, look at their fingers, don't dance around, tell bad jokes, and only need 4 strings
4. TV is good
5. Trios are bad

bonus list: things I refuse to believe
1. Country Music

List #205: Best things I learned this summer

List #205: Best things I learned this summer

1. Disc Golf
2. the correct response to "Everybody Stand Up"... (I love to stand up, it's my favorite thing to do)
3. Grizzly Bear, Frankmusik, MGMT
4. Smoothies
5. The Fitness Center
6. Podcasts + driving
7. Cruise control
8. Where I want to be in three years
9. Omaha
10. My sister's dog is okay sometimes
11. The Blackwater
12. Order of the Stick

List #96: Subjects I plan to study this summer

List #96: Subjects I plan to study this summer (* or re-learn)

1. Ottoman Empire
2. Byzantine Empire
3. History of Canada
4. Welsh*
5. Building stuff
6. MLA format
7. History of Africa*
8. Copyright Law and reform
9. Baking
10. International Capitals
11. Trumpet*
12. Geopolitics