an action a day (action 364 and 365)
action 364: it takes me 20 seconds to write 365 on the window of a car in Montreal in honour of today.
action 365: it takes me 10 hours and 24 minutes to go through every action performed this year while regularly being called away by family.
an action a day (action 363)
it takes me 2 minutes and 15 seconds to gently rub the softness of a Poinsettia in Kitchener Ontario 365 times.
an action a day (action 362)
it takes me 7 minutes and 35 seconds to count 365 spines on the cactuses at my mother’s house while thinking of the ones back home.
an action a day (action 361)
it takes me 2420 steps to walk along Frederick from Weber to the Frederick Street Mall and back. the return trip is spent contemplating the sad sad state of health food affairs in Kitchener and missing (missing!) Staff of Life in particular and health food stores in Santa Cruz in general. At every 365th step a little jump was taken. total time: 28 minutes and 02 seconds.
an action a day (action 360)
in honour of 12/21/08: this time it takes me 25 minutes and 33 seconds to do 365 jumping-jacks, in sets of 25 only.
an action a day (action 359)
it takes me 20 minutes and 17 seconds to count 365 trees while riding the train from Kitchener to Toronto.
an action a day (action 358)
christmas light meditation: it takes me 6 minutes and 18 seconds to count to 365, letting my eyes rest lightly on a lightbulb for each count, as my mother prepares the tree for its formal dressing. this activity is designed to keep me calm in the face of my mother’s frantic qualities, which are now coming back to me full force.
an action a day (action 357)
ate my mother’s fabulous red bell pepper soup in 365 spoons, after watching the movie “Julie & Julia” and feeling a bond over obsession and food. started with half spoonfulls but quickly had to change to eighth-to-sixteenth spoonfulls not to eat to much too quickly. total time: 10 minutes and 46 seconds.
an action a day (action 355 and 356 for the the mysterious day that I seem to have lost)
355: from this position on the couch, i can count 162 ornaments and lights on the tree that Sherri, Renie, and Sha just put up. it takes me 4 minutes and 26 seconds to count 162 of them, 3 minutes and 12 seconds to try to count them again, but finding 167 this time, and 1 minute, 51 seconds to pick out my favorite 36 ornaments.
356: the 365th word of the text i am currently working on is “the.” it appears in the following sentence: “I find Bourriaud’s performance of curator-critic a very interesting topic in the context of debates on the role and function of the curator/ curator-artist today.” it takes me 37 seconds to determine this.
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