ON THE MIND:
Walking around the Lake listening to this. Twilight lights and a strong rain. Loving thy Oakland.

Beside the bed
  • Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
    Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
    by Richard Sennett
  • Afterburn: A Novel
    Afterburn: A Novel
    by Colin Harrison
The List (ever-updated)
Sykdive from 15,000 ft.
Bungee jump

Run a Marathon
Compete in 2 Triathlons
Shave my head
Hike the Appalachian Trail
Iceland
Cuba
Barbara Hepworth's studio
Patagonia
Bike from S.F. to L.A.
Cappuccino Monastery
  in Sicily
Slovenia
Ireland
Scandinavia
Find the love of my life Bike across America
Visit the Everest Base
  Camp
Learn stone walling
Rosen Method
  Certification
Finish Anna Karenina
Finish my thesis
Speak French fluently
Speak Spanish fluently
Celebrity dinner
Climb Mt. Kilamanjaro
Publish a book
Get arrested
New Orleans
Burning Man
Buy a car
Buy a motorcycle
Learn to yodel
Shoot a gun
Win a chili cookoff
Paraglide
Drink water from a river
Poke Around

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Things Our Imaginary Admin Really Could Do That Would Perfect Life (guest author)

  1. Kitchen and living room ant displacement
  2. Waxing and haircut appointment-making
  3. Electrolyte replacement
  4. Constant perfect-craigslist-score trolling
  5. Dog poop picking up
  6. Dog downstay teaching
  7. Strategic implementation of the interruption of the cat litter distribution
  8. plan
  9. Dinner
  10. Tactical conception of air conditioning substitution schematics
  11. Sleep enforcement
  12. Caffeine restriction


Words I Like Today

  1. reem
  2. surrender
  3. frog
  4. thumper
  5. typrewriter-keys
  6. mugwumpin
  7. cattywompus

Numbers That I Think I See More Than Other Numbers

  1. 12:34 am or pm
  2. 1421
  3. 7 x 3 = 21
  4. 1111
  5. 6405 <-- definitely, without question

Things With Which We Are Dissatisfied, That We Are Not Going To Do Anything About

  1. Umbrella Design (breaks, disposable/wasteful, legs get wet, easy to lose for some reason)
  2. Designer Eyewear
  3. The price and the need for health insurance
  4. Not being able to take pictures in some places
  5. Ambiguous over-checking (email, attention to detail of items on a table [for instance], phone to see if new text messages have arrived)
  6. Aesthetic Injustice (do you have 1 minute for aesthetics?)
  7. Listening to people talk about things I don't really care about
  8. Other people's insistence that they exist
  9. Retail baby, retail.
  10. Plastic wrappers