About a month ago, a friend posted a blog idea on to her facebook page. This woman had decided to take part in what is known as a 'Day Zero List'. Intrigued, I looked at what this was. The idea is simple; write a list of 101 things you would like to do over the next 1001 day (approx. 2 1/2 years).

I don't know what it was that gripped me about this idea so thoroughly. I think it is very easy to feel like you drift from day to day, doing the same old things for no particular reason. The very British idea of 'getting on with it, what-what'. I've never been one to desire a life like that, but it is not necessarily an easy thing to find your way out of.

Having done my (current) share of travelling and working in coffee shops, I am now settled as a (slightly) mature student, about to go in to second year. As such, my potential for being able to go off and adventure whenever I want has been somewhat severed. Nothing in me feels as though I am in the wrong place, but particularly recently, I have been feeling more restless and lacking in direction. It is probably because of this that I found myself so captivated by the idea of getting myself some goals, whether they be frivolous or serious.

I technically started this on the 1st of August (felt right, beginning of the month being a Monday), but so far I have not done much. It was the same friend who initially posted the idea who suggested to me that I write a blog on my experiences, almost as a form of accountability. I must admit, the idea of posting things on the internet as a sort of diary has always been odd to me. My thoughts are my own. They are private. No one should be in my head. Bless them, if they were it would not take long to find the monsters lurking at the back. However, I have no intention of writing to the world about how much I luuuuuuuuurrrrve James Franco/shopping/my boyfriend/cats etc., so it's more of a journal of my day zero experience than it is a diary of my most intimate thoughts.

So, here I am, writing my first ever blog entry and wondering whether anything I have to say could be interesting to anyone at all. For the moment, I shall publish my list, and then go and eat the lunch I should have had 2 hours ago. http://dayzeroproject.com/user/hannahelizabeth