I'm doing 43 things
How can skip/dumpster diving be worthwhile when the stuff inside is – by definition – worthless?
dglp's Life List
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1. endure
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2. survive at least one more day
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3. survive beyond this week
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4. survive beyond this month
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5. survive beyond the next three months
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6. get through the next six months
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7. make it through the year
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8. stop this descent into poverty, anxiety, illness, whatever.
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9. get out from under
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10. live, and keep on living
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11. find something that will improve my lot in life
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12. find a better way of living
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13. find a decent job
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14. find a better place to live
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15. make payments on loans
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16. earn some money, enough to save some of it
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17. find a reason to keep living
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18. inspire and be inspired
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19. find a place to call home
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20. stay cool
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21. remain calm
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22. know that everything is going to work out fine
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23. laugh
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24. love, laugh, and be loved
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25. love, laugh, and wonder
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26. wake up in sunshine
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27. wake up feeling refreshed
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28. wake up and get out of bed
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29. breathe, deeply, more often
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30. go to burmingham
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31. fuck off
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32. get old and cranky
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33. get over myself
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34. rediscover the power of biliousness
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35. be happy in spite of myself
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36. thumb my nose at the world, the universe, and everything
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37. be idiotically happy
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38. resist all pressures to be bubbly, sparkly, perky or professionally upbeat.
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39. be a namby-pamby, po-faced idiot, just once!
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40. Attend a Uriah Heep concert!
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41. be a bitch, just this once!
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42. revel in curmudgeonry!
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43. Refuse, and keep refusing!
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Recent entries
Got the two volume Shorter Oxford English Dictionary for £10 at a book fair in Milton Keynes about four years ago (t’were printed in Bletchley, so maybe it had been hanging around the office a while). Can’t say as I’d want the full unabridged set.
My favorite instance of using this book (as distinct from an electronic version) is only a couple weeks old. I discovered gubernator while looking for something else. I had previously thought this word was invented for Arnold Schwarzenegger. But no, it’s a bona fide word that’s considerably older than Arnie’s tenure:
[a. L. gubernator, agent-n. f. gubernare, gubernat-, to GOVERN.]
A ruler, governor.There it was, on paper almost as old as Arnie hisself. And here are some dated citations showing just how long it’s been in use:
1522 J. CLERK in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. III. I. 304 Who is in Spayne, and chief gubernator there vnder the Emperor. 1623 COCKERAM, Gubernatour, hee which gouerneth. 1678 GALE Crt. Gentiles III. 5 The wise Creator and Gubernator of althings. 1886 W. J. TUCKER Life E. Europe 281 Whenever our freedom was called into question, or our rights trespassed upon..by our Woiwodes or Gubernators to whom was intrusted the administration of the principality.
for all the happy idiots out there. It’s not fair to explain, to rationalise, when idiotic happiness is based on something other than words, intellect, et cetera. Hence, no explanation.
