30 May 2008

What to do When you are Bored IX

1. Realize you need 15 more things to do to reach an even 200.
2. Print out list and start checking things off.
3. Weed my vegetable garden so I don't have to.
4. Return the calls of the friend who keeps leaving messages.
5. Stop reading over people's shoulders, AHEM.
6. Realize that people make funny sounds when they are annoyed at you but can't stop reading over your shoulder.
7. Watch the annoying shoulder-reader-over move closer, so as to better read the screen.
8. Give the annoying shoulder-reader-over what's coming to them.
9. Realize you had the wrong person.
10. Feel bad, but never tell the other person you thought that.
11. Shove the annoying-shoulder-reader over in the shoulder. Hard.
12. Watch them move away, but still read.
13. Repeat #11.
14. Panic when person you thought was annoying-shoulder-reader-over moves in and starts reading over your smoulder.
15. Feel better when they start becoming an annoying-shoulder-reader-over.

What to do When you are Bored VIII

1. Create a time-capsule email. Write journal entries for a month, then email the account name and password to yourself on your usual correspondance email. Title it 'Do not read until [one year from the date]'. Put it up on your calendar and read it one year from now. You'll be amazed how much you changed.
2. Make an animated 'movie' with photoshop and a powerpoint program.
3. Eat all your M&Ms in colored pairs. Yes, there is a right and wrong way to eat M&Ms!
4. Move your pillow from the head to the foot of your bed. It changes perspective.
5. Pick a random topic.
6. Find out all there is to know about it.
7. Write a story all about it.
8. Write a minimum of one page story starting with the line 'I have only one eye. I lost it [action] [number] years ago. However, I have a 'fake' eye. Few would suspect it, but its the most high-tech thing one could possibly imagine. It...'
9. Submit stories to anyone.ichoose@gmail.com to be read and reviewed for a contest!
10. Write your friend a note in a completely foriegn language.
11. Watch their face as they open the note.
12. Refuse to translate.
13. See what they understood.
14. Demand they write you back.
15. Watch as they do the same thing to you.

27 May 2008

What to do When you are Bored VII

1. Eat M&Ms.
2. Go to Vegas. Double points if you're a minor.
3. Refuse to gamble.
4. Try to avoid nosebleeds from the dry heat.
5. Swim. A lot.
6. Go to the Ethel M chocolate factory.
7. Pig out daily at the expensive buffets.
8. Look at the architecture on the Strip. I know, sounds boring, but it's cool.
9. Hunt out Wi-fi to blog with.
10. Guess where I am. That's right! Not in Vegas!

(Bonus points: Photograph it and make a photo montage for your friends. Refuse to explain what a montage is.)