a cross-out life

Whenever i complete an item on a to-do list, i strike it through rather than check it off. There is such victorious closure in that gesture. If something becomes irrelevant or impossible for my list, i scribble it out, sometimes until it's unreadable. Maybe this comes from my tendency to reverse-self-investigate (e.g. if anyone wanted to discover why or when i did this or what i wrote here, they couldn't discover it in this way but would have to think about this other thing). Too much Sherlock Holmes as a child, perhaps?

A couple of weeks ago i made a list of lists to make (while driving).

• things that go through a cycle of being bad, reaching a prime, and then being bad again (as opposed to being awesome at first and then declining, or things that get better with age)
  
• things that get better with age
• things that are awesome at first then decline
• unusual things that can be done safely while driving
  
• eccentricities to try
• languages to know
• things to tell kids about life
  
• things not to buy

I want to start saving quotes from books that i read and organizing them into easily accessible format. The easiest way of doing that is making a blog post and labeling it, so don't be surprised if that starts happening.

i'm It: 7 random things

Thank Amber for this nonsense.

1. The high school AP Stat student in me is uncomfortable with this use of "random." There is no way to make any of these seven things about myself be equally probable to be listed out of ALL the stuff about me that there is (assuming that all the stuff about me is quantitative). I will proceed under the assumption that "random" here means "nonchalantly chosen."

2. I just looked that up to make sure i had a point, and am reassured to know that the equal-chance definition applies only to Statistics, and that in everyday usage "random" means "chosen without method or conscious decision" (Mac dictionary). Procedimus.

3. Listing is one of the activities that i enjoy. Last week i made a list of lists i would like to make. I also have started a list of "human things," things that we all have in common.

4. My deepest irrational fear is that fish will bite off (or just nibble at--ugggghhh) my toes whenever i'm in geological bodies of water.

5. One of my most melodramatic internal dilemmas (which you are familiar with if you've been a faithful frequenter of this blog) is my reckless love for the ocean and all things maritime, especially adventures therein, thereof, or therabouts, and yet my deep detest for any (ostensibly) edible thing that comes from it.

6. An endeavor that i have considered untertaking is writing an alliterative dictionary. Maybe there aren't enough words in the English language to make that a real possibility.

7. My favorite thing to do in ballet class (among many wonderful things) is pique to the 5th.

Hate to be a wet blanket, but i don't know enough people who blog for fun to perpetuate this tagging business. I think Susie should start a blog. Then i would tag her.