Things that I still want to do in the near future even though I have taken little to no action on them to date:

• Spend at least two weeks and preferably two months doing Spanish immersion in Spain or South America.
• Take a tour of the South of France.
• Visit a bunch of Europe’s tiny states and principalities: Luxembourg, San Marino, Monaco, Andorra, and Lichtenstein, to be exact.
• Practice my French conjugation the way I used to in school, with drills and tables and such.
• Convert my ever-growing French vocab list (2,661 words and counting!) into an Anki deck.
• Read more than five pages of a book at any one time.
• Get back to running two or three times a week.
• Earn an income.

On the other hand…

Things that I have done in the recent past and/or am continuing to do in the present:

• Committed hundreds of new French words to memory.
• Learned my way around Paris. Though I still can’t keep the arrondissements straight and probably never will.
• Got out of town more than once, to bucket list places both near and far.
• Met a ton of new people.
• Started taking photographs with my video camera.
• Finished my first (small) paid assignment in Europe.
• Started my own documentary project, which can only be described as Grey Gardens, in Paris, with British people.
• Ate my weight in cheese.

Eight for eight: proof that for everything I have not done (yet!), I have done something else worthy. Because you know that my annoying brain is keeping score.

[The photo is from my documentary project.]