Not only does dropping ballast lighten your load and allow you to be fast and smooth, but the splash it produces in the water behind you propels you along the way even more.
*raises glass*
Here's to being streamlined.
A photo of Pygmy and I out and about the other night.
Goals are about to be ticked off.
101 Things in 1001 Days: a List of Goals
- Pay off all debt
- Go swimming more days in a month than not for at least one month
- Be able to do a backflip
- Take a hiphop dance class
- ride a mechanical bull
- swimming with the Jellyfish in Jellyfish Lake in Palau
- live / work in Costa Rica
- Be able to hit a small target with a playing card from 8 feet with regularity
- Make a stereoscopic / Viewmaster portrait of someone
- Make custom designed t-shirts
- Finish a feature length film script
- Have a photograph of myself taken as Saint Sebastian
- Learn how to play the trumpet
- Write at least one album's worth of songs
- Take argentinian tango lessons
- Take muy thai lessons
- Take brazilian jiu jitsu lessons
- Start putting money away as investments
- Start putting aside money into RRSPs
- see Leonard Cohen in concert
- Make my own pasta
- Have a piece of travel writing published
- perform in a circus
- Go to Carnival in Quebec City
- Go on a summer road trip to all the top waterparks in North America
- Learn the one handed cut and shuffle for cards
- Make one piece of clothing for myself from scratch
- Take a class on massage
- play a secret game of frisbee in the inner courtyard of the Dutch royal palace
- have a 8 handed massage
- Eat at the French Laundry
- Eat "La Mediatrice" in New Orleans
- Complete a full length 1 hour radio play and have it broadcast
- party it up at the Edison in L.A.
- see Bob Dylan in concert
- publish an article in Perfect Sound Forever
- Take a class on Lecoq's physical movement
- go to Long Beach, BC with a girlfriend
- hike the West Coast trail
- Go White Water rafting
- make an experimental pornographic film
- go to Burning Man
- attend the Victoriaville Musique Actuelle festival
- visit the grave of Joshua Norton
- publish a series of instructional videos of all 85 ways to tie a tie
- have a regular cocktail night at my place
- visit a floatation tank facility
- get hired to a really stupid job and get fired in the most glorious way possible
- shoot off some fireworks into the night
- try LSD
- compose a piece of music
- smoke salvia
- Experiment with nootropics
- be comfortable using Final Cut Pro and Avid
- perform in a band
- visit the following cities - Prague, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Berlin, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Kyoto, Tokyo, Sydney
- build a geodesic dome
- have a full body massage
- visit a real sugar shack
- learn to surf in Australia
- finish reading In Search of Lost Time by Proust
- go see the Monarch Butterfly reserve in Mexico
- attend the Day of the Dead in Mexico
- run up the same temple stairs in India that Grant Morrison did
- pick a lock
- make a terrine
- get a tattoo
- have my portrait painted
- do a trek through the Costa Rican cloudforest
- retrace Basho's journey through Japan on bicycle
- grow the most impressive beard I can
- become an NLP master practitioner
- put on a marionette performance
- take a culinary program
- have a threesome
- make a marionette
- learn how to pick pockets
- fly a WWI style biplane
- get down to 185 pounds
- publish a book of fetish photography
- stage dive/crowd surf at a concert
- write a novel
- publish a cookbook
- participate in a ping pong tournament
- learn 3 trick shots at billiards
- take lots of E and dance all night long
- take some yoga classes
- become an expert in nutrition
- grow a bonzai tree
- visit Machu Piccu
- be able to read/speak Spanish
- perfect my French grammar skills
-watch all of Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Run with the Bulls in Pamplona
- Participate in the National Tango Competition in Buenos Aires
- Own a house that's also a geodesic dome
- Become a shibari expert
- Save enough money so that I can live off of the interest and never have to work again
- Take a Trip on the Oriental Express
- Seen the Northern Lights in the Yukon Territories
- Do the complete pilgrimage on foot from France to the Compostela di Santiago
- play in the World Series of Poker
- Visit the Hermitage Museum in Russia
- Have proficiency with throwing knives
- Go to a shooting range and fire handguns
- Go on a hot air balloon ride
- Take a meditation retreat with Shinzen Young
- Do indoor skydiving
- Go on that crazy spinning ball ride at La Ronde or somewhere else
- See Bjork in concert
- Visit the Tripoli theme park in Scandinavia
- See the paintings in the Louvre
- Have a picnic in the gardens at Versailles
- Visit the Rothko Chapel
- Visit the Roden crater
- Get a picture of me next to the Nikola Tesla statue in Niagara Falls
- Grow a rare orchid
- go skydiving
-have an authentic Philly cheese steak
-swim with the dolphins
-drink Guinness at the factory
-spend Bloomsday in Dublin
Things I've accomplished farther back in the past:
- run for mayor
-do work at the United Nations
there is also something to be said for the glorious comfort of acquisition, see: i have skype and a webcam now! so we should chat.