When we were picking names for Beckett we wanted to avoid names that rhymed with anything bad. This is why we did not pick Chucker, even thought Chucker Baird really has a nice ring to it. We did realize that Becker the Fecker was a possibility, but since we don't live in England, we thought this might not be such a big problem. When I told me yoga class I was also concerned about Beckett being called "Beckett the Bucket," they informed me that I was "acting like a professor; thinking too much about it." So we decided to risk our little Beckett being called a bucket. But that is just an aside to what the post is really about.
You probably have seen the preview for the new movie "The Bucket List." I am so ahead of the times that just hours before I saw that preview, I was reading the Christmas-book-ornament our friend Monica gave us a couple of years ago. Each year we write down how we have spent the Christmas season. There have been some great ones, like when we swam with the dolphins and my little sister Dani in Hawaii, when we got stuck in the biggest snow storm in Salt Lake history on our way to Monica's wedding and hiking and skiing while pregnant. Anyway all of these adventures made me think "I want to make a list of all the ways I want to spend my next 50 Christmases." That afternoon I saw the "Bucket List Trailer" and got a name for my list.
The Great JEUCE Bucket List:
- Scuba dive with the whale sharks during a March full moon while they are breeding in Belize.
- Scuba dive at the great barrier reef before all the coral is killed by warming oceans.
- Take a scuba trip at the Red Sea where we alternatingly scuba and view ruins in the desert.
- Take the 18 day rafting trip down the Grand Canyon.
- Visit Baja California when the grey whales are calving.
- Spend a year living in France on sabbatical.
- Visit Guiling China.
- Make a first descent down an Alaskan slope and name it the Jeuce Deuce.
- Take heroin 1 hour before we know we are going to die.
- Respond to a student's question with "If that kind of question interests you, you should go take my husband's class."
- Decorate a float for the Rose Bowl.
- Go skydiving.
- Start a biotech company.
- Publish a paper in Science.
- Build a Japanese style tea house in our back yard.
- Spend the summer traveling around Europe in a VW Vanagon.
- Buy a Volvo XC70 that gets great gas milage at the factory in Sweden.
- Take a trip to Disneyland with all the Hardys and stay in the Disneyland Hotel.
- See a green flash.
- Sail around the South Pacific; get tan; eat tons of fish and coconuts and snorkel every day.
- Visit the Bilboa Guggenheim.
- Live in a modern (architechture) house.
- Sit in a Frank Lloyd Wright chair.
- Have a swimming pool in the back yard.
- Visit Nantucket. Meet the man.
- Go into labor (Jeanne).
- Choreograph my own Buto dance (Bruce).
- Buy a beach house.
- Write a screenplay.
- Live in a country with a female president.
- Go on a safari in Africa.
- Get diamond earrings as a push present.
- Listen to our son recite an Auden poem from memory.
- Sea Kayak in the San Juan Islands WITH ORCAS.
- Sleep in a snow cave. (We already slept in an adult-sized tree house).
- Stay in siloh suite at Santarella.
- Go to Tanglewood every summer.
- Read all the books on Modern Language Association List of the top books of the 20th century.
- See the Aurora Borealis in Norway or Alaska.
- Experience teleportation, or as the physicists call it, tunneling.
Well, that is all for now. Bruce wants to make sure we can edit it in the future!
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