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.
July
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
- move to London
- revoke baptism
- re-learn french
- Take pro cooking classes
- abolish the barbarian practice of putting commas and fullstops inside quotation marks and parentheses
- have a rant from time to time
- Pick a new theme song for myself each week or so
- identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
- Add as many interesting/hopefuly-useful information and details about places in Italy to 43places as possible
- Buy an iPod.
Visited on 43 Places:
- Côte d'Azur — Worth visiting!
- Villeneuve Loubet — Worth visiting!
Read:
- Night Watch
- Mort
- The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
- David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
- The Pillars of the Earth
- Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
- Emma
- Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel
- Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Novels)
- Little Women (Penguin Classics)
- A Christmas Carol (Reissue)
- Persuasion (Cover to Cover Classics)
- Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Anchor Folktale Library)
- Bridget Jones's Diary - A Novel
- Old Goriot (Penguin Classics)
Watched:
- The Piano — Worth consuming!
- Life Is Beautiful — Not worth consuming
- All That Jazz — Worth consuming!
- La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Fahrenheit 9/11 — Worth consuming!
- Elephant: A Film By Gus Van Sant — Worth consuming!
- Breaking the Waves — Not worth consuming
- Solaris - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Apocalypse Now — Worth consuming!
- The Third Man (50th Anniversary Edition) - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Barton Fink — Worth consuming!
- sex, lies, and videotape — Worth consuming!
- The Leopard - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Monty Python's the Meaning of Life — Worth consuming!
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser — Worth consuming!
- Faraway, So Close! — Worth consuming!
- Secrets & Lies — Worth consuming!
- M*A*S*H (Five Star Collection) — Worth consuming!
- Blow-Up — Worth consuming!
- Open City — Worth consuming!
- The Night of the Shooting Stars — Worth consuming!
- Paris, Texas — Worth consuming!
- Miracle In Milan [Miracolo a Milano] — Worth consuming!
- Othello — Worth consuming!
- Black Orpheus - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Un homme et une femme — Worth consuming!
- Ces messieurs dames — Worth consuming!
- La classe ouvriere va au paradis [The Working Class Goes to Heaven] — Worth consuming!
- L'Affaire Mattei [The Mattei Affair] — Worth consuming!
- Padre Padrone — Worth consuming!
- The Tree of Wooden Clogs — Worth consuming!
- When Father Was Away on Business — Worth consuming!
- The Mission (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Underground — Worth consuming!
- La Stanza del figlio — Worth consuming!
- Birdy — Worth consuming!
- The Man Without a Past — Worth consuming!
- Wild At Heart — Worth consuming!
- Too Beautiful for You — Worth consuming!
- Il Fiore Delle Mille E Una Notte (Arabian Nights) - PAL DVD — Worth consuming!
- A World Apart — Worth consuming!
- Bye Bye Monkey — Worth consuming!
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
- Cinema Paradiso (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Scoop — Worth consuming!
- The Stolen Children (Il Ladro di Bambini) — Worth consuming!
- Gomorra (Gomorrah) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Pancakes — Worth consuming!
- Oysters — Worth consuming!
- Greek Cuisine — Worth consuming!
- Salmon — Worth consuming!
- Pizza — Worth consuming!
- Chinese food — Worth consuming!
