#Thanks for coming to my Ted talk I am aware this genre of post is unfashionable but must speak my truth as someone who loves Cheery so much

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Cheery Littlebottom is actually the best fictional character ever, demonstrated below:

Got fired from being an alchemist for exploding the guild council

Consequently eyebrowless when we first encounter her

Not only transgender, but arguably the inventor of transgenderism among dwarves

Immediately becomes girl best friends with Angua

Overcomes her prejudices against werewolves, is defended in turn from dwarvish [trans]misogyny by Angua. Girls supporting girls. I love them.

Have I mentioned transgender

Singlehandedly creates & maintains a forensics department

Has to be the person to tell Vimes that spoons can't be made of arsenic

In the face of transphobic vitriol is still able to show kindness and compassion to Dee when she needs it

Is, once again, transgender

[garrettdoeseverything]

In Which Our Hero Begins His Adventure

Hey guys, like the triangles? I got them from this magical place called the 1990s.

For those of you unfamiliar with what I am doing, I guess I better fill you in. So there’s this guy on the internet who invented the Day Zero Project, or as we call it, a 101 List. It’s a list of 101 goals to be completed in 1,001 days. Whatever you want to accomplish – going sky diving, reading your height in books, trying that thing you wanted to try – but with a deadline on it so you can be motivated to get it done. When I first met Sara, she was in the middle of her second 101 List. And though I hadn’t started dating her yet, I knew that this kind of thing was right up my alley. I started one myself close to the time we started dating, and finished it in the spring of 2016. I’ll send you a link to the guy and the website that got this whole thing started, as well as to Sara’s 101 list blog. If you haven’t started following her yet, well, what’s wrong with you? Get on it!

https://dayzeroproject.com

http://emmisary.blogspot.com

Anyway, she’s on her third 101 list now, and I started this year happily content with just making ideas for my second 101 list as I spun through the white water rapids of graduate school. I told myself I’d start my next list when I was at least done with classes.

However.

The more I came up with ideas for my list, the more excited I got for them. I sat thinking about what fun I would have trying my hand at getting actually decent at an arcade game for once, only to come back to reality just in time for my professor to say, “And everything I just said is going to be on the test.” 

Just kidding. I would never* daydream in class.

Anyway, that’s when I knew I had to get started. If I’m this excited about it, it’s a sign that I should go ahead with it, right? So here we are. You’ll see below you what I plan to accomplish from January 16th 2017 to October 13th 2019. And I’ll be in grad school. So yeah, I guess I’m trying to do everything. Most likely what will happen is you’ll see me checking in with a photo or two on my Instagram when I make baby steps on finishing each goal.

Now don’t worry, go sit back in your seat, put the tomato down. I promise I’ll actually write up something solid when I get an entire goal finished. Pinky promise. Because I am a responsible* adult, I will likely only post about the goals that have to do with school for the first bit, but if you’re lucky, I just may do something interesting now and then. You never know. Anyway, before I ramble on for another four paragraphs…

 101 List 2.0, January 16, 2017 to October 13, 2019:

1.     Post on the Internet about every goal completed

2.     Complete 5 classic console video games

3.     Complete 5 indie video games

4.     Gain 25,000 points on a classic arcade game

5.     Complete an “Around the World in 80 Days” Culinary Challenge

6.     Complete a “Time-Travel” Culinary Challenge

7.     Create a Food Network-like technical challenge for Sara and 2 friends to judge

8.     Bake 3 different kinds of Chilean breads

9.     Make 3 different rolls of sushi

10.  Make 3 different batches of Xiao Long Bao

11.  Make 5 different foods from my Pokémon Cookbook

12.  Create a “Sara’s Not Cooking Tonight” recipe book with a minimum of 10 items

13.  Try 10 new restaurants

14.  Listen to 101 new albums

15.  Watch 10 films from International Cinema

16.  Read 5 Biographies / Nonfiction History Books

17.  Read 5 books related to SLP work

18.  Read 5 books on world mythologies / folktales / religion / culture

19.  Read 5 books recommended by the Vlogbrothers

20.  Read 5 books recommended by Austin Kleon

21.  Read 5 books in the genre that I am making my NaNoWriMo in

22.  Read a book on Parenting

23.  Read through an entire Marvel comic series

24.  Read or remove all the books that have been left unread on my bookshelves

25.  Get the illustrated Harry Potter books

26.  Re-read the Harry Potter series or listen to the entire series on audiobook

27.  Complete a Listography book

28.  Complete the Steal Like an Artist Journal

29.  Complete 3 challenges from The Art Assignment

30.  Create a stippling drawing

31.  Buy a classic collection of poetry and then “black it out” to make it into something new

32.  Complete a drawing journal

33.  Fill my poetry notebook for Sara

34.  Complete the Gen 7 National Pokédex

35.  Participate in an official Pokémon VGC event

36.  Contribute / participate in a Lego building contest / exhibition

37.  Post an idea on the Lego Ideas website

38.  DM a D&D campaign

39.  Win NaNoWriMo

40.  Participate in February Album Writing Month

41.  Post-it Note Art

42.  Make a piñata

43.  Submit a piece of art to a local art contest

44.  Recreate a picture from childhood

45.  Create my own board game

46.  Go on Kickstarter and contribute to something

47.  Learn Hiragana

48.  Learn Katakana

49.  Learn the Kanji for 50 words

50.  Learn the ASL alphabet

51.  Learn the ASL signs for 25 words & 5 phrases

52.  Read a book in Spanish out loud

53.  Read / watch each General Conference during the list in Spanish

54.  Add 5 movies to our Animated Movie Library

55.  Add 10 books to our Children’s Book Library

56.  Add 5 books to our Graphic Novel Library

57.  Add 5 games to our Board Game Library

58.  Watch another Ken Burns documentary series

59.  Go through a large, well-known art museum (MOMA, Guggenheim, etc.)

60.  Kon Mari my virtual stuff (everything on the computer)

61.  Kon Mari my physical stuff

62.  Create a Feltron Yearly Report

63.  Send an email to Dear Hank & John

64.  Complete an online courses from one educational website (for example, Khan Academy) on one subject

65.  Watch all the videos on Crash Course in one subject

66.  Film 1 second a day for a year

67.  Learn 5 songs from our currently-owned piano books

68.  30 days of original Lego creations

69.  30 Pokémon drawings in 30 days

70.  30 days of hidden faces

71.  30 days of sharing inspiration

72.  30 days of no added sugar

73.  30 days of TED talks

74.  30 days of clarinet

75.  30 days of piano

76.  30 days of haikus

77.  30 days of Shakespeare

78.  30 days of sharing knowledge & awareness about different communication disorders

79.  Take out my old things from mom and dad’s place

80.  Give a thank-you note to all of my teachers

81.  Donate a minimum of $5 to my top 5 favorite content creators on the internet

82.  12 days of donations

83.  Volunteer at the TRC

84.  Create a savings fund of at least $5,000 for an important, adult thing

85.  Create a savings fund of at least $150 for something fun and unnecessary

86.  Make a daruma for one of my goals

87.  Make and complete a fitness goal lasting at least 6 months

88.  Modify and follow my own version of the “Alton Brown Culinary Way of Life” for 6 months

89.  Become a Boy Scout Merit Badge Counselor in some subject

90.  Learn to change a spare tire

91.  Visit Arches National Park

92.  Visit Glacier National Park

93.  Visit Yellowstone National Park

94.  Visit Dinosaur National Monument

95.  Read a supplement to the Sunday School Lessons for 1 year

96.  Read the entire Topical Guide

97.  Read 3 church history books

98.  Read 50 journal articles related to SLP work

99.  Read through 10 subjects on the ASHA Practice Portal

100. Watch 10 videos on Master Clinician Network

101. Participate in at least one local election and the 2018 mid-term election