Debt, Presidents, Parties, and Falsities

'nuff said.

lhp

Tapes N' Tapes: Insistor

I dig. It nice.

Oh yeah, the 3DP is still going...quite swimmingly.  I make pun! Sexytime in your vageen.

lhp

3DP: Write Swimmingly: Day 10

OK, so I am sort of better now.  The nagging cough that was my bed fellow for almost a week, and the deathly fever that made me its bitch, are about gone.  So now back to the habit-making/breaking of this 3DP.

Starting tomorrow, back to the endeavor.  Since I have slacked, I will have to try to catch up.  Nothing too crazy, as I still want to make this 3DP legit.  Instead of 30 minutes of swimming, it will be 35.  Instead 1,000 words a day, it will be 1,100.  This should make up for some of the missed time, although not all, I know.

Give me a break, alright.  I was dead, dying and done less than a week ago.  Even Jesus took 3 days to come back from the dead.  Put it into perspective. (I might have been a little bit sacrilegious just now).

lhp

3DP: Write Swimmingly: Day 6

So I tempted the gods.  I said to them, "Hey gods.  I shake my finger at you...my index finger, for I am no. 1!"  I did not listen to them when they gave me a bit of a cough, a little itchiness in the throat.  No, I did not.  After my body was telling me chiiiiill on Day 3, after having finished my second straight day of doing my challenge justice, I decided to forget it.  So on to the pool I went.  Out I came.  Write, I did.  Sleep then wake, then work next day.

'Course fever I get.  It only surfaced fully on day 5.  Chills, sweats, hours and hours of daytime sleeping, about 4 movies, and many-a-pills and OJ-later, I faired much better.  I must give partial credit to my commendable DVD collection for helping out my immune system (thank you much Sideways and Anchorman...and you too, High Fidelity, you're a champ).

Now what?  Well, I am still halfway through death, but I am taking steps back rather than forth.  What is the lesson to be learned?  Just because you tell yourself illness is all in your head does not mean you convinced the rest of your body of that, too.  Unless you are one of those tibetan buddhists.  They are Superman-like.

lhp

3DP: Write Swimmingly: Day 1

The first day is gone, and so far so good. Yes, that is me up top, if you change my race, build, skill, and desire/or not to wear goggles and the swimmer's do-rag.

This first day served as a test of skill. I found out I CAN swim for 30 minutes straight, albeit with continually deteriorating form and increasingly girly whimpers. I also found out I can write 1,000 words on a whim, and even made a story out of it (it pretty much is a story about a drunk older lady who drinks too much wine, plays Credence Clearwater Revival really loud, tries to makeout with pizza delivery boy, and passes out only to wake up and ask for french toast from her startled grandsons). Yeah, it was a pretty moralistic story.

As of today, no six-pack yet. I also don't have that pretty bleached hair surfers sport. And I am also not great enough of a writer to find a better way of starting a sentence than with the forbidden "And." And that is all.

lhp

3DP: The 30-Day Project

After reading a very interesting article in Esquire, I have decided to embark on a journey. Well, many short journeys.

The article chronicles the times of a guy who decides to become a committed smoker for 30 days. By his second day, he smokes a full pack.

What a great idea! I will embark on a set of 30-day Projects, experiments if you will, as a means to expand my boundaries, tolerances, experiences, and reality. I will take up any suggestions that meet the following criteria:

-It can be seen as a way to improve myself, or at least open me to experiences that do not completely destroy my lifestyle (i.e. NO smoke weed for 30 days, get drunk for 30 days straight, beat myself up for 30 days straight)

-They can be done for a period of 30 days straight (i.e. NO getting drunk 30 days in a row, not sleeping for 30 days, etc)

-I am able to chronicle my experience on a consistent basis (i.e. NO living in a hospital for 30 days)

These examples seem far-fetched, but so far these are some options I am planning on acting on:

-Living off only vegetables, fruits, nuts, and water for 30 days

-Lifting weights for 2 hours a day everyday for 30 days/running 2 miles everyday for 30 days

-Smoking at least a cigarette for 30 days straight

-Read one book a day for 30 days

-Write 1000 words a day for 30 days

-Drink 2 drinks a day for 30 days

-Go without a car for 30 days

-Do not pick up a call for 30 days

-Go to a bar/club for 30 days straight

Etc etc

More than one 3DP can go on simultaneously.

WHY? Because I strongly believe limitations should be taken lightly. When you die, you remember what you didn't do, but you fondly remember what you did do.

I have heard that when you are old you finally have the time and pace to remember what you did, didn't do, and wish you did better. These memories fill up your time. I want my memories to be powerful and broad enough to entertain a cantakerous, wily, restless old man.

First 3DP:

Become a writing swimmer in 30 Days

Goal:

To write at least 1,000 words a day, on any topic, fiction or non-fiction, AND to swim 30 minutes a day for the rest of March. By the end of March, I hope to get my creative juices flowing, form a habit of writing constantly, and get re-acquainted with a taxing sport that I let go when I was younger. A published novel and six-pack abs wouldn't be bad either, y'know.

It will be hard to end up writing around 22,000 words by the end of the month, and swim for 10 hours, but it isn't supposed to be easy. It is also not supposed to be beneficial to me, but for this month, lets make it health-conscious.

Likelihood of me dying: 33%, by drowning or led poisoning.
Likelihood of me fully completing this 3DP: 75%. Writer's block, ADD, and ashy, chlorined skin, might turn me off.
Likelihood of me earning wicked stories out of this: 52%. Out of my own imagination, probably. Yes, 52% is not what some would call a vote of confidence, but I am honest. Now bugger off.

I will chronicle as much as I can and see where that goes.

Suggestions for future months?

lhp

ps No real names will be posted. Don't want to incriminate the many.

Vegas. Why Do You Seduce Me So?

It is settled.  I wasted four years getting a college degree.  Sigh.

lhp

Daft Punk Charleston

'nuff said

lhp