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.