i’ve been reading about polyphasic sleep and the benefits of not sleeping for more than 6-7 hours at a time. according to Seth, your consciousness leaves your body for too long, rendering you feeling detached and groggy. sleeping though the night is an invention of the industrial age, so that we can have more working hours in the daytime, imposed by wholly artificial means.
i’ve been going to sleep later and waking up later too. if only i had jetlag to help me…
Connie's Life List
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1. become a morning person.
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2. start a conversation with a complete stranger for the hell of it
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3. apply to grad school
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4. find work I'm passionate about
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5. get a job i love
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6. Not care what other people think
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7. write more love letters
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8. Take more photos
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9. make new friends in Hong Kong
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10. be confident and courageous, consistently.
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11. take more risks
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12. speak better Chinese
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13. make someone's day
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14. be more politically active
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15. Learn to identify plants, flowers, and trees
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16. Create more and consume less.
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17. Make a postcard and send it to Post Secret
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18. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
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19. make cheese
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20. learn to play the fiddle
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21. memorize and play the Goldberg Variations
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22. wear more skirts
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23. Knit a scarf
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24. Find real communities in Hong Kong
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25. find a darkroom to develop my photos
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26. read new authors
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Recent entries
this is really hard...
3 years ago
inspiration
3 years ago
this is too cool! from project runway contestant diana eng’s blog , a scarf based on the fibonacci sequence.
Make a list of 43 things I know very little about, & then learn at least 3 things about each of them
ciao!
3 years ago
i’ve realized that i do this all the time, but am too lazy to write them down. and i already spend enough time looking for information on the internet anyway, but it was nice reading all y’all entries.
