The List

One of my goals this year, which I've shared with my friends is to make a list of everything we want to do in New Orleans and do it.  We're going to try to cross off one item per week.  Already, though, I find myself struggling to balance school obligations and enjoy my last five months in New Orleans to the fullest extent.  Why does it always seem to be a trade off between what you want to do and what you have to do?  One of my New Years resolutions is to find a balance between the two, and make what I want to do part of what I have to do.  

Here is the list as it exists right now.

1.  Go to NOMA (and hopefully spend the whole day enjoying City Park)

2.  See a show at Tipitina's

3.  Go to Preservation Hall

4.  Go to Snug Harbor

5.  Go to Rock & Bowl (hopefully with the Green Club)

6.  Go to the Maple Leaf

7.  Order a sazerac at the Sazerac Bar

8.  Go see a horse race (and make a bet)
9.  Go to the insectarium
10.  Go to the casino
11.  Go to a midnight movie at the Prytania Theater

(While I realize that many other people in other places drink, it is striking that so many of these list items, while pertaining to other things, also have one thing in common - alcohol.  When I was home over break, and went to the liquor store with my friend on New Year's Eve, she commented that people were doing "last minute shopping" and I asked her what she meant (it was only 6 o'clock).  She told me that it was state law that liquor stores close at 7 in South Carolina, and added, "you can't just go through the drive through!"  Really, though, don't the SC laws seem just a little bit uptight, even if drive through daiquiris seem a little bit (or a lot) lax?)