Twenty-Five in Twenty-Five.

1. Get a tattoo

2. Get a driver’s license, finally (groan)

3. Make a souffle

4. Take a corny picture in a phone booth in London

5. Start (and perhaps complete) the Novel That Is In My Brain

6. Become the kind of person who can fold completely in half

7. Successfully eat a lobster

8. Sell the sofa, buy the desk

9. Buy flowers every Friday

10. Write and publish a feature-length article, with interviews and everything like a grownup

11. Spend more time outside

12. Drink more water, read more books, eat more donuts

13. Learn to use the sewing machine to make things besides curtains and pillows

14. Learn to use the camera to take pictures of things besides the tops of buildings

15. Come out of this year with one photo of myself I actually like

16. Do something with the wall in the hallway, even if all that means is scrubbing the scuffs off

17. Get the record player to work

18. Make it to California

19. Be a little gentler with myself

20. Be a little gentler with other people

21. Publish something scandalous under a pen name

22. Learn a new game

23. Remember how much I like going to random concerts

24: Make some huge-ass art for the huge-ass bedroom walls

25: Remember the following: u b u. i’ll b me.