an end

Things I Did While I Was Drunk

Lost my socks

Took my temperature (and it was, indeed, lower)

Broke a video game controller

Read peoples' palms

Quoted Yeats

Quoted 50 Cent

Made a list of common synecdoches

Flipped a coin for a kiss

Lost

Got kissed anyway

Got neck-deep in snow

Missed someone I don't, by conventional terms, know

Didn't mind my empty pockets

"The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and hip fatigue. These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Dead on the page. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe that’ll be the point. Maybe that’s why they’ll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Today’s risks are different. The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the “Oh how banal.” To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law. Who knows. "

-David Foster Wallace

Things Not Worth Doing

Giving empty praise

Eating cinnamon candy

Waiting

Going to bed early

Saving words for later

Having faith in Congress

Watching television

Worrying about multiple sclerosis but not getting an MRI

Buying into absolute truths

Pretending to like Bjork

Following social obligations

Trying to make something that will last forever

Going to Madison

Reading Anna Karenina

Being reasonable

Doing some drugs

Not doing some drugs

Studying probability

Telling boring lies

Being cautious (sometimes)

non-starter

Goodbye tannery good luck we will miss you

(Mr. Wallace, I am having a hard time)