In the past eight thousand seven hundred and sixty hours
I have....
...kept one job since February 8th
...driven
3616 (idaho and back, twice)
2083 (culver city to pensacola)
468 (pensacola to tampa)
995 (tampa to west virginia camp, though this is a rough estimate because there were detours in Tennessee and Kentucky, namely Muffin and Mammoth Caves)
583 (west virginia camp to my aunt lisa's in greenfield, nh)
320 (greenfield, nh to paupack, pa aka the poconos)
3067 (the poconos to camp in oregon)
833 (camp in oregon to home aka culver city, ca)
miles
...gotten three
* first, for "almost causing an accident" (so not true) and not yielding to the cars who had the right of way
* second, for driving in a median
* third, for going 92 mph in a 75 mph zone
I'm afriad this list, when compiled, makes me look like a terrible driver...really, two out of three were just terrible misunderstandings...
...been to 28 states
...moved once
...read
* The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern
* Marilyn Monroe's Autobiography
* Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
* Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
* The Body by Stephen King
* Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proux
* Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
* The Sadness of Sex by Barry Yourgrau
* A Man Jumps Out of An Airplane by Barry Yourgrau
* A Series of Unfortunate Events Book One and Two by Lemony Snickett
* Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism by Paul Collins
* The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex: What You Must Know to Be Sexually Literate by June Machover Reinisch
* The Day I Became an Autodidact by Kendell Hailey
* Smack by Melvin Burgess
that I can remember...
...successfully grew out my hair well past my shoulders
...discovered antique markets
...finished and semi-distributed a zine
...protested the war
...went to a Radical Socialist Feminist meeting
...turned seventeen
...saw snow coming out of the sky
...went to in LA
* Deerhoof
* Sleater-Kinney
...stayed in
* one in Tampa
* one in Chicago
* one in Eugene, OR
...had my first train ride
...built a bookcase
...experimented with internet dating
...seen sand tornados
...explored part of the largest series of underground caves in North America
...grown up a little
...sent a secret to postsecret.com
...smoked my first cigar
...got drunk
...walked the night streets of Chicago alone
...stayed in 8 shady hotels
...camped
...spent the night with two other people uncomfortably trying to sleep in my car while escaping from the rain
...kept one job since February 8th
...driven
3616 (idaho and back, twice)
2083 (culver city to pensacola)
468 (pensacola to tampa)
995 (tampa to west virginia camp, though this is a rough estimate because there were detours in Tennessee and Kentucky, namely Muffin and Mammoth Caves)
583 (west virginia camp to my aunt lisa's in greenfield, nh)
320 (greenfield, nh to paupack, pa aka the poconos)
3067 (the poconos to camp in oregon)
833 (camp in oregon to home aka culver city, ca)
miles
...gotten three
* first, for "almost causing an accident" (so not true) and not yielding to the cars who had the right of way
* second, for driving in a median
* third, for going 92 mph in a 75 mph zone
I'm afriad this list, when compiled, makes me look like a terrible driver...really, two out of three were just terrible misunderstandings...
...been to 28 states
...moved once
...read
* The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern
* Marilyn Monroe's Autobiography
* Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
* Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
* The Body by Stephen King
* Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proux
* Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
* The Sadness of Sex by Barry Yourgrau
* A Man Jumps Out of An Airplane by Barry Yourgrau
* A Series of Unfortunate Events Book One and Two by Lemony Snickett
* Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism by Paul Collins
* The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex: What You Must Know to Be Sexually Literate by June Machover Reinisch
* The Day I Became an Autodidact by Kendell Hailey
* Smack by Melvin Burgess
that I can remember...
...successfully grew out my hair well past my shoulders
...discovered antique markets
...finished and semi-distributed a zine
...protested the war
...went to a Radical Socialist Feminist meeting
...turned seventeen
...saw snow coming out of the sky
...went to in LA
* Deerhoof
* Sleater-Kinney
...stayed in
* one in Tampa
* one in Chicago
* one in Eugene, OR
...had my first train ride
...built a bookcase
...experimented with internet dating
...seen sand tornados
...explored part of the largest series of underground caves in North America
...grown up a little
...sent a secret to postsecret.com
...smoked my first cigar
...got drunk
...walked the night streets of Chicago alone
...stayed in 8 shady hotels
...camped
...spent the night with two other people uncomfortably trying to sleep in my car while escaping from the rain