Edited by author 02-26-2003 11:24 AM
Well, some of those are pretty attainable. Driving stick actually isn't that hard. Just get yourself a friend with an old stick car they don't care too much about and futz around, you'll get it, I promise.

Constellations aren't too bad, just start simple - like Orion for instance - and go from there.

As for cooking, it's mostly just following directions until you know what you are doing. Just watch the food channel a couple nights a week and you'll pick it up (not that I'm a cook, mind).

The instruments you have listed are kind of a crap shoot. Drums aren't hard to learn, necessarily, but I don't think everyone was meant to be a drummer. It takes more coordination than a lot of people have. Sitar would be cool to learn, I think. I suppose it wouldn't be too bad if you have ever played any other stringed instrument.

Other listed items are a little more hairy. I think you have a better chance of learning to move objects with your mind than understanding your boyfriend or saying no to a Krispy Kreme. :-)

 Men are dumb, that's pretty well all you have to know (trust me, I am one ;-). If you keep that in mind when they do stupid things, and remember that guys don't think like women do, you should be OK. Guys (at least in my experience) think in a random stream of loosely related (and sometimes completely unrelated) thoughts. I've found that even when I'm "dwelling" on something bad, other things enter the stream and bring me somewhere else. Hope that helps explain some things ;-)

Perhaps this could be the basis of a new web site, where people meet to teach each other things. "I'll teach you Spanish if you teach me how to cook Indian food." I think that would be a really neat idea. Of course it'll be a crap shoot as to whether or not you get someone who is capable of teaching, but it's not like you're losing any money on the deal.