Paola in 2006

2006 was 92% worth living.

In 2005, Paola did 18 things, went 111 places, met 2 people, and consumed 348 products.

Years: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. translate *that* book with Andrea
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. encourage everyone to post a picture of him/herself as a kid, to remind us of all the places we've been and all the places we've yet to be — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. New Orleans — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Netherlands — Worth visiting!
  2. Amsterdam — Worth visiting!
  3. Haarlem — Worth visiting!
  4. Brooklyn — Worth visiting!

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February

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Having my "frittata di zucchine" reach its formal perfection — Worth doing!
  2. take a private pilates lesson — Worth doing!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Amy
  2. Daniele Muscetta

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March

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. pay a tribute to the memory of Pier Paolo Pasolini — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Il Gelato di San Crispino — visited about 1 month later
  2. TriBeCa — visited 8 months later
  3. Meatpacking District — visited about 1 year later
  4. Er Filettaro a Santa Barbara
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Abruzzo — Worth visiting!
  2. Calabria — Worth visiting!
  3. Campania — Worth visiting!
  4. Emilia Romagna — Worth visiting!
  5. Lazio — Worth visiting!
  6. Liguria — Worth visiting!
  7. Lombardia — Worth visiting!
  8. Marche — Worth visiting!
  9. Molise — Worth visiting!
  10. Piemonte — Worth visiting!
  11. Puglia — Worth visiting!
  12. Toscana — Worth visiting!
  13. Trentino Alto-Adige — Worth visiting!
  14. Umbria — Worth visiting!
  15. Veneto — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Borges: Collected Fictions
  2. The Devils : The Possessed
  3. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
  4. Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics)
  5. The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I (The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol 1)
  6. Memoirs of Hadrian
  7. American Tabloid: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  8. The Cold Six Thousand: A Novel
  9. The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics)
  10. Brown's Requiem
  11. Killer on the Road
  12. The Iliad
  13. L.A. Confidential
  14. The Black Dahlia
  15. The Big Nowhere
Listened to:
  1. I Could Live in Hope
  2. The Great Escape
  3. Lust for Life
  4. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
  5. Dummy
  6. The Joshua Tree
  7. I'm Your Man
  8. Grace
  9. Led Zeppelin II
  10. Strangeways, Here We Come
  11. Automatic for the People
  12. Jagged Little Pill
  13. The Bends
  14. OK Computer
  15. I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Watched:
  1. Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Psycho (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Goodfellas — Worth consuming!
  4. North by Northwest — Worth consuming!
  5. Annie Hall — Worth consuming!
  6. Bullets Over Broadway
  7. Casablanca — Worth consuming!
  8. The Wizard of Oz — Worth consuming!
  9. Chinatown — Worth consuming!
  10. The Apartment — Worth consuming!
  11. Lawrence of Arabia (Limited Edition) — Not worth consuming
  12. 2001 - A Space Odyssey — Worth consuming!
  13. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Full Screen Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  15. The Godfather (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Sushi — Worth consuming!
  2. Chocolate — Worth consuming!
  3. BBQ'd Salmon — Worth consuming!
  4. Kebab — Worth consuming!
  5. Cheesecake — Worth consuming!
  6. Paella — Worth consuming!
  7. Venison — Worth consuming!
  8. Pasta — Worth consuming!
  9. Steak — Worth consuming!
  10. Fresh fish — Worth consuming!
  11. Lobster — Worth consuming!
  12. Thai Cuisine — Worth consuming!
  13. Asian Cuisine — Worth consuming!
  14. Ice cream — Worth consuming!
  15. Chicago Style Pizza — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Add as many interesting/hopefuly-useful information and details about places in Italy to 43places as possible
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Utrecht — Worth visiting!
  2. Marbella — Worth visiting!
  3. Il Gelato di San Crispino — Worth visiting!
  4. Garbatella — Worth visiting!
  5. San Lorenzo — Worth visiting!
  6. Ostiense — Worth visiting!
  7. Pigneto — Worth visiting!
  8. Monti — Worth visiting!
  9. Trionfale — Worth visiting!
  10. San Giovanni — Worth visiting!
  11. Testaccio — Worth visiting!
  12. Borgo — Worth visiting!
  13. Roma — Worth visiting!
  14. Ara Pacis — Worth visiting!
  15. Sant'Angelo — Worth visiting!
Watched:
  1. Where the Truth Lies — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. complete my thesis
  2. learn to sew
  3. survive this consultancy experience with a tad of humanity left — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. bake a fabulous cheesecake — Worth doing!
  2. survive this never ending routine of applications/job interviews with a tad of humour left — Worth doing!
  3. workout every morning — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. translate *that* book with Andrea
  2. Lose 20 pounds
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Auditorium Parco Della Musica — visited 14 days later
  2. Monte Porzio Catone — visited 4 months later
  3. Marino Laziale — visited 4 months later
  4. Frascati — visited 4 months later
  5. Patronaat
  6. Tonic
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Aurelio — Not worth visiting
  2. Villa Borghese — Worth visiting!
  3. Ragusa — Worth visiting!
  4. Ragusa Ibla — Worth visiting!
  5. Villa Doria Pamphili — Worth visiting!
  6. San Calisto — Worth visiting!
  7. Florent — Worth visiting!
  8. Ariccia
  9. Castel Gandolfo
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. mOz
Consumed:
  1. Ampamakia 2005
  2. La Tavoletta 70%

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. create a sourdough starter — completed 3 months later
  2. adopt a child
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. create my own recipe — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Valdobbiadene
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Auditorium Parco Della Musica — Worth visiting!
  2. Piacenza — Worth visiting!
  3. Barnes & Noble - Union Square — Worth visiting!
  4. Eur — Worth visiting!
  5. Lake Turkana — Worth visiting!
  6. Nairobi — Worth visiting!
  7. Da Checco Er Carrettiere — Not worth visiting

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Show something I love or I’m proud for this 43Show and Tell — completed 3 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Watch Italy grind France under it's heel (no boot jokes, please) and get the cup they were robbed of in '98--FORZA AZZURI!!! VAI! VAI! VAI! — Worth doing!
  2. gather an army of geeks to cheerbomb LaTordue's 1000th cheerer
  3. Get everyone to play the 3 Things Q's on 43T — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. gather participants for the first 43T european meet-up
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Vondelpark — Worth visiting!
  2. Rijksmuseum — Worth visiting!
  3. Jordaan — Worth visiting!
  4. Cremeria Aurelia — Worth visiting!
  5. Cinema Pasquino — Worth visiting!
  6. Williamsburg — Worth visiting!
  7. Coney Island — Worth visiting!
  8. Prospect Park — Worth visiting!
  9. Greenpoint — Worth visiting!
  10. Brooklyn Museum — Worth visiting!
  11. BAM — Worth visiting!
  12. Brooklyn Heights Promenade — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. pask

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Buy a scooter — completed 15 days later
  2. have a rant from time to time
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Antibes-Juan-les-Pins — visited about 1 month later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Melkweg — Worth visiting!
  2. Verzetsmuseum — Worth visiting!
  3. Freni E Frizioni
  4. Ma Che Siete Venuti A Fa'
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Paul Weller

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Invite others to share their favorite and/or dream places to stay (feel free to join in!) — completed about 1 month later
  2. Bring my budget under control and save money — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Buy a scooter — Worth doing!
  2. create a sourdough starter — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Puerto Banus — visited 2 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Washington Heights — Worth visiting!
  2. Chinatown — Worth visiting!
  3. Upper West Side — Worth visiting!
  4. Koreatown — Worth visiting!
  5. Union Square — Worth visiting!
  6. Times Square — Not worth visiting
  7. Chrysler Building
  8. Seagram Building
  9. Flatiron Building
  10. Grand Central Terminal
  11. Brooklyn Bridge
  12. Guggenheim Museum
  13. TWA Terminal
  14. New York Public Library
  15. Brooklyn Public Library
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. improve my tameshigiri
  2. declutter and organize
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Show something I love or I’m proud for this 43Show and Tell — Worth doing!
  2. Invite others to share their favorite and/or dream places to stay (feel free to join in!) — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Piazza di Sant'Ignazio — visited 7 months later

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. let go of the diet mentality — completed about 1 year later
  2. reconnect with my body — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get a good haircut — Worth doing!
  2. Declare 11/8/06 to 11/15/06 favorite 80's band Avatar week.
  3. Get other 43T'ers to admit their most favorite guilty pleasures
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Get a digital SLR camera
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Puerto Banus
  2. München — Worth visiting!
  3. TriBeCa — Worth visiting!

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. get to the end of January with *a place to stay*, all the work done, and possibly enjoy and take advantage of what happens in the meanwhile — completed 3 months later
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. get things done
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. French Quarter — Worth visiting!
  2. Bourbon Street — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book) — Worth consuming!

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