Drafts

• Date: 6/3/10
  Title: Going Solo
  Premise: Reflect on the experience of leading a volunteer group. Draw parallels to working for the Park Service, except now you're a leader instead of a follower. Explain the exhilarating pride of moving up the ladder.
  Quote: "I stood in front of the semi-circle of high school kids."
• Date: 4/19/10
  Title: Day 109
  Premise: Describe the sex noises coming from upstairs. Compare it to a leaky roof, but for sounds instead of water. Use humor and a third-person narrative to reassure yourself that you're not a whiner. But really, you hate (and possibly envy) these fucking people.
  Quote: "His apartment had a leaky ceiling. Every now and again, drama seeped through the floorboards from above."
• Date: 3/15/10
  Title: Day 74
  Premise: Use first person. Reflect upon the recent experience of rejection. Use writing as a way of catching your breath.
  Quote: "I'm not going to publish this post. This isn't that kind of a blog."
• Date: 12/7/09
  Title: Billie
  Premise: Recount the conversation you had with the schizophrenic performance artist who hangs around campus.
  Quote: "deserted marines in 1967"
• Date: 11/6/09
  Title: Brothers
  Premise: Reflect on how you wished for brothers as a child. Compare that with your current living situation: two other dudes in a one-bedroom apartment.
  Quote: "He expected it to be something like summer camp, except every day."
• Date: 10/27/09
  Title: The Joy of Economics
  Premise: Explain your former philosophical/moral code that was based upon Economics. Critique its internal logic and self-justification.
  Quote: "The truth is that there is a lot of suffering in the world. The joy of economics comes from the reassurance that it's okay that I did nothing."
• Date: 10/21/09
  Title: Games
  Premise: Explain your general lack of competitive spirit, with specific regards to board games. Perhaps explore the dark, perverted nature of your love/hate for competition.
  Quote: "He liked to win."
• Date: 9/26/09
  Title: Current Pretensions
  Premise: Explain how you're a pretentious sonofabitch.
  Quote: "Igor Stravinsky and correspondence chess."
• Date: 9/21/09
  Title: (Untitled)
  Premise: Describe the guy you saw earlier today.
  Quote: "He walked down the street, false confidence in his stride. He held a bundle of flowers in front of him, gripped in his right hand like he was ready for battle."

Meta-List

Shopping

• ox-tail (for stew)
• used pants
• return textbooks
• a donut
  

To do (today)

• go to bank (deposit birthday check)
• go to post office (mail thank you card to Auntie Norma)
• go running
  

To do (this week)

• pack things for moving out
• move into Berkeley apartment
  
• negotiate work hours with employers
• celebrate 19th birthday
• hang out with Kyle
  
• withdraw from summer school

To do (this month)

• take Karyn somewhere nice for dinner
• get dad a birthday gift
  

Reading

• The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
  
• Why We are Hungry, Dave Eggers
• Fresh Air Fiend, Paul Theroux
• For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
• Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut