Hoisted from Dixie who of course borrowed it herself with proper credit given (unlike some schmucks she could mention):

Take this list and highlight what you've actually done (although I really wish someone would tell me what #'s 113 & 119 were :-) ):
01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula.
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08.Said ‘I love you’ and meant it
09.Hugged a tree
10.Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13.Watched a lightning storm at sea On a lake, actually
14.Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise
15. Seen the Northern Lights
16.Gone to a huge sports game
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
18.Grown and eaten your own vegetables
19. Touched an iceberg
20.Slept under the stars
21.Changed a baby’s diaper
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. Watched a meteor shower
24. Gotten drunk on champagne
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight
29. Bet on a winning horse
30. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
31. Asked out a stranger
32. Had a snowball fight
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35. Held a lamb
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse
41. Ridden a roller coaster
42. Hit a home run
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard drives for your computer
49. Visited all 50 states
50. Loved your job for all accounts
51. Taken care of someone who was shit faced
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53. Had amazing friends
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
55. Watched wild whales
56. Stolen a sign
57. Backpacked in Europe
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climbing
60. Lied to foreign government’s official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach
62. Sky diving
63. Visited Ireland
64. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
66. Visited Japan
67. Benchpressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your records
70. Pretended to be a superhero
71. Sung karaoke
72. Lounged around in bed all day
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theater
80. Done something you should regret, but don’t regret it
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who’s not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites If something over 1000 years old qualifies as ancient.
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
90. Gotten married
91. Been in a movie Bar scene in St. Elmo's Fire
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn’t have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
95. Gotten divorced
96. Had sex at the office
97. Gone without food for 5 days
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest
100. Ridden a gondola in Venice
101. Gotten a tattoo
102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
103. Rafted the Snake River
104. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
105. Got flowers for no reason
106. Removed - I’m not telling that one
107. Got so drunk you don’t remember anything
108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
109. Performed on stage
110. Been to Las Vegas
111. Recorded music
112. Eaten shark
113. Removed - I’m not telling that one
114. Gone to Thailand
115. Seen Siouxsie live
116. Bought a house
117. Been in a combat zone (since I think my house growing up counts)
118. Buried one/both of your parents
119. Removed - Not telling this one either
120. Been on a cruise ship
121. Spoken more than one language fluently
122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
123. Bounced a check
124. Performed in Rocky Horror
125. Read - and understood - your credit report
126. Raised children
127. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy
128. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
129. Created and named your own constellation of stars
130. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
131. Found out something significant that your ancestors did
132. Called or written your Congress person
133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
134. …more than once? - More than thrice?
135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
137. Had an abortion or your female partner did
138. Had plastic surgery
139. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived.
140. Wrote articles for a large publication
141. Lost over 100 pounds
142. Held someone while they were having a seizure
143. Piloted an airplane
144. Petted a stingray
145. Broken someone’s heart
146. Helped an animal give birth
147. Been fired or laid off from a job
148. Won money on a T.V. game show
149. Broken a bone
150. Killed a human being **who would actually answer this??
151. Gone on an African photo safari
152. Ridden a motorcycle (though most of that was actually spent crashing it)
153. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100mph
154. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
155. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
156. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
157. Ridden a horse
158. Had major surgery
159. Had sex on a moving train
160. Had a snake as a pet
161. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
162. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
163. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
164. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
165. Visited all 7 continents
166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
167. Eaten kangaroo meat
168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
169. Been a sperm or egg donor
170. Eaten sushi
171. Had your picture in the newspaper
172. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime(well that other one was healthy for at least a year anyway)
173. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
174. Gotten someone fired for their actions
175. Gone back to school
176. Parasailed
177. Changed your name
178. Petted a cockroach
179. Eaten fried green tomatoes
180. Read The Iliad
181. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
182. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them
183. …and gotten 86′ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
184. Taught yourself an art from scratch
185. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
186. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
187. Skipped all your school reunions
188. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
189. Been elected to public office
190. Written your own computer language
191. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
192. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
193. Built your own PC from parts
194. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
195. Had a booth at a street fair
196: Dyed your hair
197: Been a DJ
198: Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
199: Written your own role playing game
200: Been arrested

Yesterday I attended New Transfer Student Orientation at Texas State University. Check-in was from 7-8 am. As I walked into the building, patting myself on the back for being early to assure early bird rewards, I was stopped in my tracks by a line just inside the door, winding its way around the lobby. DAMN, when did generation XY'ers start being so non-passive? I was really relying on the fact that most of them would be rolling out of bed about 7:45 in a summer vacation hung over stupor. Frickin' ambitious children...grumble, grumble.

TSU seperates orientation: freshmen have their own, and transfers have their own. I had looked forward to the fact that perhaps this orientation being transfers, I would be amongst my own: more older folks starting anew then young things in tank tops more interested in finding out about Rush then whether Pre-Cal was still open.

Yippeee...sure, plenty of young'ns, but I certainly saw my fair share of older broads, even some white hairs! My happiness was short lived when I realized that 95% of these people were the students parents. Urgh..

This also leads me to another point to make: transfers are for students with over 30 hours. This means most of these kids are 20 or older. I have one word for these parents: DETACH! In my advising session a father sat with his daughter, answering for her each time a question was asked or something was needed: "well she filled that out...", "she wants to take these classes...". I have to wonder if the man attends her dates with her: "she likes a little less tongue, Bobby"

After checking in, we were supposed to attend a brief "Welcome to TSU..rahrahrah..sure we don't have a great football team and UT next door makes us look like flunkees, but we've got Chick-fil-a in our student union!" lecture...I could care less about this, but there were donuts in that room. I would attend an Amway conference for a free donut.

As I sat there eating my...well chocolate chip muffin, it outweighed the donuts (literally)...I read the orientation schedule. WTF?? We have to go to a different building for advising? WTFF? It's...it's...down the stairs...*gulp* By this I mean that the student union where we were currently at sits at the top of a hill. Down this hill are the library, and further down the hill are all the buildings that house the classes/departments. They try to fool you into thinking that it's not so bad a walk by offering you a few flat areas, followed by flights of stairs. I've walked this once before...in May. I almost passed out. Today's weather forecast was to be a heat index of 102 with 95% humidity. WTFFFF?

However, me gasping and clutching my chest as I climbed the stairs while smiling bouncy kids passed me by was not to be the big humiliation moment of the day.

We were split up into our majors...off I trudged with the English majors. Just one of several orientation sessions, so thankfully there was only about 10 of us. We were arranged around a table, in 70's type big upholstered chairs on rolling casters. Towards the end of our advising, there were about 4 students left, as well as the English dept. head, another big English big-wig, and two of their admins. As I waited impatiently (that will teach me!), I rolled by chair back and forth. One...too..many...times. I rolled the chair backwards, and leaned forward. ZIP...the chair folds in on me. FLAT on my ass I go. The cute guy in the room said, "OH MY GOD." All the advisors are fluttering around me, admin says "oh darn these chairs!" (what? you're telling me this has happened before?! Don't you people know how unhealthy and out of shape most English majors are? We could really hurt ourselves AND the tile!)

I know I'm strange, but I appreciate laughter way over concern or pity. One time while trying to hit a golf ball in front of my bro and hubby, and swinging in a 360 circle TWICE with no connection, I wanted to hit them with the golf club for saying "ok, good try, try again" instead of making fun of me like proper people do. If I had been surrounded by friends, I would have laughed until I wet myself. But I was already concious of my *cough* girth around all these tiny young things, and the thud my ass made as it hit the ground was hardly subtle. Amid coo'ings of "Are you okay?! (please don't sue us)", the only answer I could squeak out of my swollen red face was "my ego's a little bruised."

On the plus side (pun intended), my ass is so well padded that I have no residual tenderness. I cured my embarrassment by calling my loved ones so they could laugh at me like normal people.

The good news from this day is...well, I have to pause to savor the beauty of this. *insert "Chariots of Fire"music* I found out that due to some weird way they code things, I do NOT have to take a Communication/Speech class! Thank you Jeevus, thank you! For some reason a random French class I took (and was cursing for the pointlessness of that credit) counts as a communications credit. No standing in front of a crowd of apathetic sleepy students trying to convince then in 4 minutes with a persuasive speech why Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is far superior to Velveetas Shells and Cheese.

On top of this, the computer system they've spent so much of our fees on, somehow codes my Mass Communications journalism class from 1991 as 3 hours of PE credit. This means I have officially completed TSU requirements of two PE hours in your choice of water aerobics, bowling or other fitness pursuits which are absolutely necessary for a well-rounded English degree.

So four hours later, and down one pride notch, I was officially enrolled in Childrens Lit, Psych, some random sophomore Lit and Spanish III. I have done it...I am on my way. I'm still a little nervous, but I am out of community college, heading towards a bachelor degree in 4-yr...and I still don't know what I'm going to do with it. But I've learned one thing, moving is better then standing still, even if you don't know which way is North.