Thing-a-Day

My mom says I make the rules

thingaday — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:58:15 +0000

I don’t believe in spending a significant amount of your life on something you don’t enjoy. I gave this project a fair shot and I am no longer enjoying it, so why continue? It doesn’t make sense. I make the rules and I decide to retire this project way way before the deadline.

Jonny’s going to give me shit for this. Good thing I don’t care.

Day 19

thingaday — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:30:38 +0000

Elephants are my favorite animals. Today I made this elephant out of aluminum foil. His name is Ernesto and he makes me happy.

Day 18

thingaday — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:55:03 +0000

I got a really stupid assignment in Government to “lobby someone for something” – persuade them without them knowing. It was vague and complicated and I didn’t do it but I wrote this pretty impressive (and pretty silly) piece of BS to turn in instead. For your viewing pleasure:

Lobbying is slow process. A process of suggestion and implication. Since the time this assignment was assigned, I began planting the idea of a nice dinner out in the minds of my parents. I placed ads for delicious looking food all over the house. Every time a commercial for a restaurant came on, I would groan in desire and say, “Ohh, that looks so good!” Soon my parents started to agree. I saw a zombielike compliance in their eyes – I could see that soon they would acquiesce to my ever so subtle demands and take me out to a delicious dinner.

Tonight I instituted my attack. When my parents came home from work I stated loudly that I was “so hungry!” and asked my parents if they were hungry too. “Yes we are, all knowing daughter” they answered in unison. Yes! I had control. “Where shall we go to eat, though, parents?” I asked, sinisterly kneading my hands. “Please tell us, all knowing daughter, where you would like to eat.” Their vacant eyes turned to me, their brains (after long and careful manipulation) ready to be filled with my every demand. After telling them where I wanted to eat I snapped them out of their trance for the drive over (friends don’t let friends drive entranced). They seemed confused as to why they were driving us to a restaurant, but accepted the situation.

Throughout the night I got my curfew extended, my allowance increased, free use of either of their cars, and my little brother Zack guaranteed as my personal slave. The process of lobbying was surprisingly easy. Maybe my parents are exceptionally susceptible to manipulation, but I was shocked at how quick it was for them to agree to my every suggestion. Lobbying is great!

Day 17

thingaday — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:36:34 +0000

Today I made a pinwheel, or, as I like to call it, a whirligig.

It’s got some wet oily stuff on it that was on my desk. Weird.

Day 16

thingaday — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:09:47 +0000

Today I made these fire hydrant decorations with Jenna and Jonny:

Recognize those glasses? Put to good use!

It was for this cool thing I do called sf0. You can check it out at sf0.org. It’s fun and you do things you wouldn’t think to do otherwise. It’s like pre-made adventures!

Happy April Fool’s Day!

Day 15

thingaday — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:39:20 +0000

Today, at the request of my barbershop coach Ms. Fish, I made this thank you card for Ms. Love, who organized the entire Hawaii tour.

Outside:

Inside:

Day 14

thingaday — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:02:26 +0000

A year is a long time.

Two things contributed to tonights midnight snack. First, I went to a very early dinner party at Charlie’s house, so I got hungry at night. Second, my sleep schedule is all messed up after spring break so I couldn’t sleep.

So I made a snack:

It was a sandwich roll thing and a brownie.

To prove that it’s midnight:

Day 13

thingaday — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:44:23 +0000

Remember those graph pictures you used to do in math class? I made one today. I didn’t know what it would turn out to be. It turned out to be a crazy looking bird.

Courtesy of this random website.

Day 12

thingaday — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:39:14 +0000

I decided I wanted some new glasses.

So I made some.

Day 11

thingaday — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:31:56 +0000

This was today, which means I’m all caught up.

Today I wrote a poem for English in the voice of E.E. Cummings. WordPress doesn’t like my typesetting so this is a slightly modified version.

sprIng

little loveflowers open with
wet-ness,and,full-ness
and little i takes little You
into little places of nooneelse

and little i tells little You
little stories of nooneelseknows
and) little birds sing
to little You and little me

big forever gets lost in little now
and big Why gets lost in little idontknow
and big

sp
r
I
n
g

gets lost in little
youandmetogether