Paola in 2008

2008, so far, is 97% worth living.

In 2005, Paola did 12 things, went 8 places, met 0 people, and consumed 71 products.

Years: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Feb | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug

July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. make life simple
  2. Step out of my comfort zone
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. join the "I'm neither thin not fat, I like my face & body, and fuck Cosmo" club. — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. move to London
  2. revoke baptism
  3. re-learn french
  4. Take pro cooking classes
  5. abolish the barbarian practice of putting commas and fullstops inside quotation marks and parentheses
  6. have a rant from time to time
  7. Pick a new theme song for myself each week or so
  8. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
  9. Add as many interesting/hopefuly-useful information and details about places in Italy to 43places as possible
  10. Buy an iPod.
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Côte d'Azur — Worth visiting!
  2. Villeneuve Loubet — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Night Watch
  2. Mort
  3. The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
  4. David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
  5. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
  6. The Pillars of the Earth
  7. Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
  8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
  9. Emma
  10. Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel
  11. Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
  12. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Novels)
  13. Little Women (Penguin Classics)
  14. A Christmas Carol (Reissue)
  15. Persuasion (Cover to Cover Classics)
  16. Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Anchor Folktale Library)
  17. Bridget Jones's Diary - A Novel
  18. Old Goriot (Penguin Classics)
Watched:
  1. The Piano — Worth consuming!
  2. Life Is Beautiful — Not worth consuming
  3. All That Jazz — Worth consuming!
  4. La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Fahrenheit 9/11 — Worth consuming!
  6. Elephant: A Film By Gus Van Sant — Worth consuming!
  7. Breaking the Waves — Not worth consuming
  8. Solaris - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  9. Apocalypse Now — Worth consuming!
  10. The Third Man (50th Anniversary Edition) - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  11. Barton Fink — Worth consuming!
  12. sex, lies, and videotape — Worth consuming!
  13. The Leopard - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  14. Monty Python's the Meaning of Life — Worth consuming!
  15. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser — Worth consuming!
  16. Faraway, So Close! — Worth consuming!
  17. Secrets & Lies — Worth consuming!
  18. M*A*S*H (Five Star Collection) — Worth consuming!
  19. Blow-Up — Worth consuming!
  20. Open City — Worth consuming!
  21. The Night of the Shooting Stars — Worth consuming!
  22. Paris, Texas — Worth consuming!
  23. Miracle In Milan [Miracolo a Milano] — Worth consuming!
  24. Othello — Worth consuming!
  25. Black Orpheus - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  26. Un homme et une femme — Worth consuming!
  27. Ces messieurs dames — Worth consuming!
  28. La classe ouvriere va au paradis [The Working Class Goes to Heaven] — Worth consuming!
  29. L'Affaire Mattei [The Mattei Affair] — Worth consuming!
  30. Padre Padrone — Worth consuming!
  31. The Tree of Wooden Clogs — Worth consuming!
  32. When Father Was Away on Business — Worth consuming!
  33. The Mission (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  34. Underground — Worth consuming!
  35. La Stanza del figlio — Worth consuming!
  36. Birdy — Worth consuming!
  37. The Man Without a Past — Worth consuming!
  38. Wild At Heart — Worth consuming!
  39. Too Beautiful for You — Worth consuming!
  40. Il Fiore Delle Mille E Una Notte (Arabian Nights) - PAL DVD — Worth consuming!
  41. A World Apart — Worth consuming!
  42. Bye Bye Monkey — Worth consuming!
  43. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
  44. Cinema Paradiso (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) — Worth consuming!
  45. Scoop — Worth consuming!
  46. The Stolen Children (Il Ladro di Bambini) — Worth consuming!
  47. Gomorra (Gomorrah) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Pancakes — Worth consuming!
  2. Oysters — Worth consuming!
  3. Greek Cuisine — Worth consuming!
  4. Salmon — Worth consuming!
  5. Pizza — Worth consuming!
  6. Chinese food — Worth consuming!

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