And now, without further ado (but in fact with heaping scoops of much ado about nothing!) are the lists of things people want to do, never want to do, and even one list of something someone never wants to do again. Enjoy.
From my friend Pat:
Things to do in my life:
1. Give Josh a nickname in quotes (Josh "Danger" Eisenberg) : Done.
2. Become the head of the ACLU and bring it down from the inside (Any group that sues a school for allowing its football players to wear crosses one day and two months later sues another school for NOT allowing a player to wear a Jewish Star deserves to die, and vice versa)
3. Get to a point where without thinking about it I automatically pronounce it "Sammich." This will come out mostly when I yell, "Hey, Louise! Get me a sammich and a beer."
Things I don't want to do :
1. Acquire a taste for beer
2. Marry a woman named Louise
3. Ever ever ever EVER finish "Ellen Foster." Or "Ethan Frome." Or anything with the intials EF, which is shorthand for "painful, pathetic shit."
4. Get mistaken again for The Boy Culkin... Has not happened since Home Alone, and if it does, there will be trouble.
5. Grow facial hair. I don't want to, okay? I COULD but I don't WANT to. Shut up, goatee boy!
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From Micah:
Don't want to do's:
1. Be a contestant on "Fear Factor"
2. Lose a fingernail (or a finger for that matter)
3. Develop a taste for anchovies, squid, or headcheese
4. Wear a thong
5. Get liposuction
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From Carla:
List of Things I Want to Do
1. Clean the bathroom in a prom dress
2. Support myself by winning sweepstakes
3. Win a poetry contest
4. Eat at Charlie Trotter's
5. Have a house on the coast of Maine
List of Things I Don't Ever Want to Do
1. Go to my high school reunion
2. Be the featured singer of the national anthem at a televised ballgame
3. Speed Skating
4. Earn an advanced degree in Astrophysics
5. Create a mood with dry ice
List of Things I Don't Ever Want to Do Again
1. Have an affair with a married man
2. Eat more than my weight in ice cream
3. Be in the same room as Mario with a microphone
4. Lose a favorite earring
5. Climb Mt. Everest (See what I did there?!)
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And last but not least (and not because it was sent in late!) from Angela:
List of things I Don't Ever Want To Do:
1. I wouldn't want to wear a bathing suit in front of people I work with
2. I wouldn't want the made-for-TV movie about my life to be titled "Mafia Princess."
3. I wouln't want to survive the nuclear Holocaust with the only other two people to survive being Jerry Springer and the Reverand Al Sharpton
It was hard to decide a clear winner for this, so here's the deal: For best "Don't ever want to do" I'm gonna say that Angela won. For best "Want to do" I'm saying that there was a tie between Carla and Pat. Angela is getting the phone cord (well, she lives in New York, and I'm not sending milk halfway across the country), Carla and Pat are each getting a carton of milk (soy for Carla), and for coming in 4th in a four person contest, Micah is getting a packet of those Listerine breath strips. Thank God this contest is over.





