May 01, 2005

Rules for living:

1. Do not piss anyone off so badly that they are still mad the next day.
2. Find someone that you love and hold on to them tightly. (don't
screw up, don't screw up)
3. Find at least one thing that you are passionate about and make
sure that you make time to do it most days.
4. Stay alive.
5. Realize/remember/reflect on the fact that you did not make
yourself but were made by your Creator.
6. Don't play too many video games. (Go outside)
7. Be nice to your family, you are the reason you are screwed up more
than they are.
8. Remember that things aren't really that bad, you are just an idiot.

03:32 AM

December 29, 2003

Todo while on vacation

  • Clean out the apartment
  • Hang out with new friends
  • Write old friends that you have neglected
  • Do some writing {family, christmas}
  • Organize the study in terms of books
  • Go see a movie
  • Drive downtown and take some pictures
  • Catch up on Bible readings
  • Read up on technical stuff
  • Get up early every freakin day and do something

There is a list even when we have taken time specifically to get away from the list.

02:31 PM

July 30, 2003

Assignments

  • Write a five day journal of a woman starting an internship at a design firm in New York.
  • Write a small piece about a man walking around drunk trying to find his apartment.
  • Write a story about two people breaking up - and about one person breaking up.
  • Write a story starting with the word 'Watermelon'.
  • Write a story about a man too afraid to go out of his apartment on his second month of doing so.
  • Write a story about someone eating breakfast.
  • Write a story about someone's first day at a new school or place.
  • Write a story about somebody hysterically crying in the street.
  • Write a story about someone hysterically crying at home alone.
  • Write a story about someone that you know but don't really know. Lots to choose from.
  • 10 stories about us. Different ways we would have fallen in love.
  • Write a series of essays that defend the common usage of the phrase "irregardless".
  • Write a story where every other sentence you use a number.
  • Write a story that is one sentence and one sentence only and is over a page long.
  • Describe in great detail the home that you grew up in.
  • Write a story about your neighbors growing up and what you thought of older people.
  • Write a story about what it feels like to lose your grandmother.
  • Write a story about where you fit in the world.
  • Cry a little, but don't write about this.
03:42 PM

July 29, 2003

  • Write some more stories.
  • Think up some ideas for stories.
  • Get some paper or a thousand-dollar machine to record all of these ideas for stories.
  • Think about how much writing up a list of ideas is like writing the actual stories.
  • Laugh out loud about how silly it would be to write a story about someone with writer's block.
  • Stop laughing suddenly - some of your best friends have had writer's block - besides this, you are in an internet cafe and people are watching. In a related note, the internet here is delicious.
  • Pour a little on the ground for your friends with writer's block.
  • Think about how tragic it would be if you were writing on a piece of paper somewhere - writing ideas or a story - and it was lost from you by some wind or a really agressive bird, and then you had to rewrite whatever you were writing and you couldn't remember it all and you thought it was really good and now the bird has it and can't even understand it.
  • Save the document you are working on every three seconds like a nervous tick. Ctrl-S, Ctrl-S after every sentence.
  • Who taught you that keyboard shortcut Ctrl-S, can't remember, getting off track now.
  • Write down a new idea about how weird it would be if the bird stole your pen instead of the paper, and then you were left not being able to finish whatever you were working on - and the bird would have a really modern-looking nest, it being made with a pen and all.
  • Write a story about a really artsy-bird who took his songs too seriously and all the other birds hated him.
  • Change the list of ideas that you are working on from an ordered list (with numbers) to an unordered (without little dots by default, not dashes which is what most people do when they write notes - nobody colors in little dots - don't kid yourself) since these sort of things aren't really sequential.
  • Change it back, since the ideas flow from each other they should be in order.
  • Realize that you don't have a disk and go print out your list.
  • Go to the printer, which is broken and besides that out of paper.
03:52 PM