in the spirit of my final film project, here's my list of things to do before i'm 30 (some are more feasible than others):

- really determine what i want to do with my life. if i stay in film, what exactly do i want to do?
- learn vietnamese
- learn how to fly
- make a documentary about my dramatic family
- throw a really good punch
- make someone's jaw drop
- learn telekinesis
- conquer my fears
- visit all the US states and every continent (including Antarctica)
- play the drums
- finally see a baseball game and eat a corn dog
- help build a house
- learn how to ballroom dance with Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire
- hop on a flight with nothing but a toothbrush
- fall in love at first sight
- get rid of my "machine gun laugh"
- do an unselfish good deed (it's surprisingly hard to do, watch the episode of "friends" where phoebe tries to do it)
- win some kind of eating contest and not throw up afterward
- be in a situation that's like a real-life musical, where people spontaneously sing and dance
- finally weld that shelf that i made in high school
- make people laugh so much their stomachs hurt
- get married, i suppose
- always be classy
- see a tropical waterfall
- be an astronaut
- stop worrying
- make a perfect crepe
- find a sport i can actually do and enjoy
- invent something to patent
- wrestle a bear (or maybe a large dog) :)
- come up with the perfect response to an insult right then and there
- see all the movies on my "list"
- read all the books on my "list"
- really learn how to rock-climb
- as trite as it sounds, witness a miracle
- be perfectly content with myself
- banish insincerity and pretension from the world
- try everything once

i'm sure i'll come up with more, so i'll be adding to this.