project 365 : one photo a day for an entire year

I began this exercise to take one photo a day for the rest of 2009. Even though I didn’t get started until January 10, I’ve been steadily adding to the calendar of images.

Why do it?

• As a personal challenge
• To be able to look back on the year. I tend to remember the big events; not so much the little details
• To improve my photography and post-processing skills

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list no. 1

1. I have recurring dreams that I have to use the toilet but it’s broken. I also dream that it’s the end of the world. I find this ironic because (1) I am not pee-shy and have relieved myself in the most squalid holes you can imagine, and (2) I’m an optimist.

2. I think cocktails have gotten too complicated and frou-frou in recent years. Sometimes all I want is a beer.

3. Call me a musical heretic, but I don’t like either the Beatles or Bob Dylan.

4. I have seen Mount Everest from an airplane. It is so high it punches right through the jet stream, and there is almost no snow on its summit.

5. I know far more about Buddhist monks than is appropriate.

6. I think I must have broken my right pinkie finger as a baby. It has always been bent at a weird angle and prevents me from doing the Vulcan salute.

7. I get bored easily.

8. I’ve only been to the gym once. People looked very unhappy doing their workouts. I have never been to a gym again.

9. I have never gotten a tattoo because I have a fear of long-term commitments.

10. I am embarrassed to admit that I went from being a punk to being a deadhead because the drugs were better.

11. It gives me a tremendous sense of satisfaction to tuck my cats under a blanket when they are sleeping.

12. One of my nephews married a celebrity in Spain and used to appear in all the tabloids. He was sort of like K-Fed, and not very much liked. I regret not selling a photo of him as a little boy sitting on the toilet in mid-poop. I could have been rich!

13. My mom’s youngest brother drank himself to death because a woman he loved had spurned him.

14. I have an incurable congenital disease that affects 1 in 100 people.

15. I never liked children’s things when I was a kid. I never wanted to go to Disneyland. I disliked the circus. I thought kids’ shows were stupid.

16. I despise singers who over-emote.

17. I envy people who, as children, knew what they wanted to be when they grew up. I think I was overwhelmed with options. I am still undecided.

18. I was flat-chested until I hit my 30s. Then, “kaboom!” Instant tits.

19. Graduating from college was one of the most anti-climactic events of my life. Being in college, however, was awesome.

20. Yak meat gives me indigestion.