Why I Do Such Things

As the sameness of my work and environment closed in on my mind and soul, feeding the now formidable flames of my cynicism and disaffection, I knew something had to be done. Something life-changing. The answer? This Book Will Change Your Life. Written by the intentionally obscure authors Ben and Henrik, this book is a 365 step guide to truly living. Each day I am assigned a task from this book- anything from trying a new fruit to bailing a stranger out of jail, or navigating an entire day without the sense of touch. I will hand deliver my emails for a day, pick up a hitch-hiker, get into a fight, and learn ballet. Hellen Keller says "Life is a daring adventure, or nothing." I plan to make it the former... (to read more, click here)

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Compliment Day #2

Day 41

Today, I invented an entirely new compliment. This was difficult because it had to be both a compliment, and original, which is made much harder by people like Shakespeare and other people who write about love and crap like that. I'm pretty sure any compliment that would actually be taken as a strait compliment, and not anything else, has already been said. If not by poets and such, by the other people who've gotten to day 41 before me, so I figured I could go one of several routs:
Kind, yet complicated: Your hair blossoms like a winter lily on the side of a chateau.
Weird: You are the most elephanty person I have ever met. Your wrinkly gray skin can protect against mosquitoes like no one else I know.
Questionable: You have the claws of a tiger in your bosom, lying in wait to relinquish your fierce passion.
Conditional: You're the smartest person I'm talking to right now.
Comparison: You're better at eating cereal than all of the other Jacobs I know.
Cultural Acceptance: 哇，你居然翻译这个！干得好。你也有太多的空余时间。这算作一种恭维，因为我说好。
Obscure: You are so very adiaphorous, and you're probably the most leptorrhine person I know.
(Very) Rural: Yall looks like nut butter on a fresh-fry june-papper-bug-thang!

Let me know which one you prefer.  


P.S. I live in rural Wisconsin.
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  1. Beautifully BrokenMarch 10, 2011 at 8:44 AM

    My top choice would have to be the Weird one but that conditional one was quite clever--

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  2. Janie TippinsMarch 10, 2011 at 4:22 PM

    I go for the weird one. It sounds a bit like my skin...but the best thing is no more mosquitos!

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