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“To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish”
DFW

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day."
DFW

bookmarks:
listography GIVE A GIFT OF MEMORIES
fromblownspea... travel (places i want to see)
books (that i read in 2024)
travel (smithsonian's 28 places to see before you die)
books (1001 Books You Have to Read Before You Die)
  • Designate a book notebook (small, black) and in it write: Title, Date Finished, Meaningful or Not, Key Themes and Metaphors, What It Made Me Think About (Questions That It Raises).
  • Make real efforts to improve my Japanese. [DOABLE]
    • Read short Japanese novels (not anything that I've read in English before, because I'll get bored, and not while also reading an English book, because I won't read it very carefully).
    • Create a notebook on 敬語, on writing Japanese emails, on the grammatical/stylistic differences between English and Japanese and how these shape the way the languages are understood.
  • Create artwork based on the play counts of songs on music players--analyze for themes, symbols, allusions, dualities, and somehow express that in distinct works of art.
  • Buy world map and put Post-Its on it detailing the setting and time period of the books I read. [IN MOTION]
  • Take a picture every month of Inogashira-Koen, or maybe the walk to ICU, and get it developed at the end of the year. Take notes of how I felt at the time so I can write them on the back when they're developed.
  • Create a reading algorithm (when in a rut) by Google or Amazon-searching "book _ [first word on page 69 of the previous book]." Or, search for a book with the same character name that I come across in the first page I randomly open.
  • Engage in a Soylent fast for a whole month, record observations and how my habits come to change.
oct 19 2014 ∞
oct 23 2014 +