Bucket List

Academic

• Write a poem that sounds like Chesterton
• Read all of the available novels of Dostoevsky
  • Notes from the Underground
  • Crime and Punishment
  • The Gambler
  • The Idiot
  • The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
  • Demons
  • The Adolescent
  • The Brothers Karamazov
• Do intensive study of early church thought, write general reflections on blog
  • The Way to Nicaea by John Behr
  • Early Christian Writings ed Andrew Louth
  • On the Apostolic Preaching by St Irenaeus
  • Commentaries on Romans, John by Origen (?)
  • Lord Jesus Christ by Larry Hurtado (?)
  • Early Biblical Interpretation by Kugel, Greer (?)
  • The Nicene Faith by John Behr
  • Christology of the Later Fathers
  • Confessions by St Augustine
  • The Spirit of Early Christian Thought by Robert Louis Wilken
  • The Mystery of Christ by John Behr
  • On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ by St Maximus
• Pick up enough Greek to comfortably read the first several books of the Iliad
  • or perhaps just learn enough Arabic to comfortably read the Qur’an
  • or some other foreign language
• Write a substantial paper (50+ pages) on…something

Physical

• Pass PFT standards
  • 3 mi run/24 min
  • 6 pullups
  • 80 situps/2 min
  • 40 pushups/2 min
  • 500 yd swim/12 minutes
• Drop weight to below 200 lb
• Pass Urban Krav Maga level 1

Musical

• Be able to do basic accompaniment with ukulele, harmonica
• Learn to play some basic Bach on piano
• Voice lessons…

Travel and Miscellaneous

• 3+ weeks hike
• Camp out in some mountains (Alps?)
• Egypt/Israel/Lebanon/Turkey/Greece
• Macchu Picchu
• Go hunting
• Eat something I’ve grown
• Improve at chess

I’m not very creative, guys, and would appreciate any suggestions or critiques you may have.  Thanks.