Wednesday 9:09 pm

Some thoughts right now:

Knee, knee, knee, no knee, no knee. I notice my knee 80% of the time these days, and have even gone a couple hours without noticing it at all. This is an accomplishment. I'm beginning to feel more like a mammal with several parts, rather than a mammal with one part.

9:15

I've been thinking about status updates, likes, filters, hashtags, etc., and questioning how authentic any of these methods of communication are. I find myself writing emails to Facebook friends, asking how they really are, somehow expecting a different kind of truth. A real status update. 

9:24

Part of my "job job" involves perusing lifestyle blogs for inspiration and networking opportunities. These blogs are geared towards white, 30-somethings with a bit of extra money to spend on overly designed childrens' rooms and the perfect pair of burgandy booties. The images within these blogs are aspirational and pristine. Everyone looks too beautiful and skinny and the squeakiest of clean.

I'd like to see some lifestyle blogs dedicated to poor families, struggling middle-class families, non-white people, postal workers, immigrant families, women in the Congo, people on drugs, people who train parrots, people who work at Taco Bell, people who are lonely, people who have 8 jobs to survive, tired people, people who haven't had a break in ages, people who don't want to do their dishes or their hair. I want to see their bedrooms in the morning, their beauty routines, their favorite things right now on the internet.

9:26

And then of course, there's Gem and the Holograms. 

Ideas for survival

Find candid snapshots of strangers and reenact their pose while wearing some sort of furry uniform.

Pack a suitcase for a very long trip then go absolutely nowhere. Stay there for a while. 

Write Tony Robbins a letter using only your teeth. In the letter make sure and compliment him on his teeth. 

Approach someone on the street and ask them to give you directions to the place they were last.  

Sink your feet into the cracks of a sofa and stand there for at least an hour.  

Convince yourself that the world is coming to an end. Build upper body strength so you can scale tall buildings and mountains with the ease of an Olympian, eat only the food you've grown or killed yourself, spend an hour a day rotating your eyeballs to improve your vision. Call it the apocalypse diet. No cookbook required. 

Mood Masks

Every morning I dress myself in clothing to reflect my mood. I think it would be fun to do this with various masks throughout a week (or maybe even a month) at some point in the future. I'd just pop on a mask and live my day like I normally do. Breastfeeding in a mask. Doing the dishes in a mask. Eating cereal in a mask. Board meeting in a mask. You get my drift.

Below are a few I would choose from: