# HOW DID YOU BOOK-OF-DAYS YOUR CAREER? 1214: entered jobs into Experience section 1215: reorganized whole resumé folder into Ulysess, arranged and clarified the sections, tweaked some wording 1216: copied revised overview into Linkedin; put OM into volunteering section 1217: tweaked time breakdown of substitute teaching in Experience section; updated separate Experience sheet; added Capoeira to volunteering # THINGS TO DO EVERY DAY 2.0 - book of days - texts about anything *except* how crappy I feel & what a big loser I am - “book of days” the career stuff - this is Morpho’s Xmas present. He can share with the girls. # THINGS TO DO EVERY DAY 1.11 - listen - connect - write - photograph - work - exercise - TCOB - tell the truth # dad said think about major changes so far I’ve got: - move to cape and rent their house - go into business with harold and angie and e - get rid of the car - *on a more realistic note,* see a specialist about ADHD # What to do if you don’t know how to repay someone? # Dosage is *critical* Yes, you should talk with your best friend, over whisky. Or whiskey, whatever, I don’t give a fuck. But if you lack the experience, self-awareness, or plain willingness to balance on the alpine ledge between its being about the talking and its being about the whiskey, then no, you shouldn’t even mess around. Just do something else. # heaviness of the human animal Before subjecting a detainee to interrogation, a 2002 cable notes, C.I.A. officers sought assurances that he would “remain in isolation and incommunicado for the remainder of his life.” # a guy named Rejali said this about torture “Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.” # This is how I think of teh-dsa, too > Think of [the site] as an object like a sculpture or a building. You walk around, looking from this angle and that. In your head you are putting together a rounded representation, even if you don't take the time to inspect every cranny. That is the way we usually learn about anything complex. # jogar that time on the beach when phil said “you do it tight!” and dexter said “you’re one of us now!” physical things are so clear, so obvious. you know if you did the thing or not, you don’t have to have a committee discuss and debate and drag in the whole educational system and the president and standardized tests and and professional development to say whether you’re qualified. you just, you just do the thing that’s supposed to be done at the time, and if you do it, then you did it. ***Is there any way to take that into the realm of words?*** “Comedy is the greatest way to attack anything like a totalitarian regime,” said Ray Bradbury. “Courage doesn’t do it. Laughs do.” > One afternoon in 1995, while watching a terrible movie on TV, he and Rogen agreed they could do better. So they went upstairs to Goldberg’s sister’s pink bedroom and began writing a script on the family computer. It wasn’t a hobby. It was their future. # but “i don’t want to pay your bills” > governments currently spend about half a trillion dollars a year on subsidies, mostly hidden and economically unsound, for fossil fuels... yes, it's true: our taxes are paying industries to burn coal and oil. > But in the twenty-first century, in many areas the alternative to government action is not individual liberty; it is corporate power. And the role of large corporations in this story has been mostly negative, a tale of self-interested obfuscation and short-sighted delay. The atmosphere is a classic case of a "commons": in the old shared English meadow, any given individual was bound to gain by adding more of his own cows, although everyone lost from the overgrazing. In such cases the public interest can only be protected by public rules. *Cael’s got something I’ll never have,* the old man said. hard work is a big piece, but not the whole pie. there’s also feedback or guidance, motivation or willpower energy or health timing luck emotional decoupling (think of work as work; tools as tools, aesthetically enjoyable but not fetishized) somewhere way down on this list is the dreaded “specialness” that you are afraid has been paralyzing you for years Take any small-town police blotter (particularly of the conservative-paranoid-midwestern type) and use one of the entries as a seed, for example: > ### Sunday > #### 6:52 pm > A woman kicked her boyfriend out of her residence on the 500 block of East College Avenue. He then reportedly took her car without permission and said he was going to crash it. I love people! you beed t asotre ae thar mrbtak stuff tajers ebergy t\tii # how it all started Sure, the three legged stool is stable in a topological (?) Sense, but look--(indicates extremely lopsided three legged stool)--that's not a stool anyone would want to sit on. So I think a polyamorous five-person arrangement is actually best, he thought, while waiting for the doctor in an exam room staring at stuff. There was a five-wheeled stool, and a light on a five-wheeled base. If it’s enough stability for a doctor’s office, it’s gotta be enough for the rest of us, right? # Handleman’s So he went to Handleman's, but not to look for lovers. He went to talk to Suzanne Handleman. He called her the “owner’s wife” one time, and she kicked him out of the bar. Skinny, straight-haired, plain-faced and judgmental, but there’s something about her he kind of likes? Maybe? # ephemeron 225750 as he walks through the middle room with the pool table towards the hidden little back room where he knows he’ll find Suzanne, he hears people talking around the oak table. Two of the people are sitting in the carved-out oak stump chair. He forgets what they were talking about.