To Do (Longterm List):

There are some important artists/concerts I need to see live before I die:

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Billy Joel

Neil Diamond

Nickel Creek

There are some important artists/concerts for which I'm going to have to die in order to see "live":

Michael Jackson

Louis Armstrong

Frank Sinatra

Gregory Hines

There are some important artists/concerts I hope I never see regardless of life status:

Air Supply

Michael Bolton

Kenny G

Dan Fogelberg

There are some authors I'd give an arm and a leg to as a few questions of/talk to:

Carson McCullers

Pearl S. Buck

John Steinbeck

There are some places I must live:

A few select locations back east

Nowhere cold or snowy

South America

There are some extended vacations I must take:

The Louvre and other scattered art museums (2 months)

Washington D.C. (1 month)

Peru/Machu Pichu (3 weeks)

Africa (1 month)

There are some graduate degrees I must obtain:

Children's Literature

Early American History

Physics

There are some languages to master:

Hebrew

Spanish

English

There's more stuff to say but it's 11:23 and I'm tired and my brain is shutting down. You know what? I'm going to head off to bed. But before I go, do you have anything you'd like to do? Merry Christmas to all and to all a Goodnight!