Currently, dancing means Argentine tango, the dance that teaches you to walk. Over the next four years I intend to get damn good at it, and along the way see if I can improve still further by adding five more sports to the mix: running, biking, swimming, boxing, and tai chi. When the study of each starts to improve the others, that'll be a magical moment. Ultimately, of course, the goal is to box three rounds in the early morning, run a triathlon during the day, cool down with tai chi, and then dance the night away.
Law means both lessons learned in my work and the study of various legal classics. Making Section 3 proud since 2009. I've promised away at least 4 more years of my life to this profession, and I'll be damned if I don't make a good show of it. For good measure, I might include the study of chess and Go in this category -- the cut and thrust of mental combat.
As for literature, I don't think it shows too much hubris to think I could get through the Great Books and the Library of America series by the time I'm 30. The Great Books of the Western World series is 54 volumes (I may eventually pick up the others from the second editions), and the Library of America series is around 200 at the moment. That's roughly a book, or 900 pages, per week for five years. Tricky -- to actually pull off that pace, I might not be able to read much else for a bit, but even if I don't quite make it in under the time, I'll still get through quite a chunk by 30. I've already read quite a few of them, and the worst-case scenario is that I don't get through some of the lesser American novels.
To life, and its many deaths.
