For some reason people around the office started talking about drafting their bucket lists (I hope someone’s not seriously ill and I just don’t know about it). Some of the entries were hilarious, in particular one person’s desire to get a pet pig named Bacon. <\/p>\n
It made me realize that I want to get a dog and name it Indiana.<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
Beyond that, there’s not much I can think of that I really would put on such a list. I’m not a big travel person, or a list <\/em>person for that matter. Write a novel maybe? (A good<\/i> novel). I don’t know, I guess I just don’t like the idea of setting my life up like a checklist (especially since I have set up the milestones for my thesis completion that way, and failed miserably!). I just live each day as it comes.<\/p>\n Plus if it was set up as a series of checkpoints and goals, I’d probably be very disappointed in how things turned out (e.g., I’m 30 years old and still in school!). Yet I don’t think <\/em>I’m disappointed in my life.<\/p>\n Am I? Should I be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For some reason people around the office started talking about drafting their bucket lists (I hope someone’s not seriously ill and I just don’t know about it). Some of the entries were hilarious, in particular one person’s desire to get a pet pig named Bacon. It made me realize that I want to get a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}