11/15/09

•November 15, 2009 • Leave a Comment

an action a day (action 328)

McDonalds Performance: eating my first McDonalds in over a decade, while thinking about SuperSize Me and guerrilla-style factory farming footage.

it takes me 1381 chews to eat a McDonald’s Angus Bacon CheeseBurger and Fries, the first 365 of which take me 5 minutes and 38 seconds (3:02 pm).

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11/14/09

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an action a day (action 327)

it takes me 6 minutes and 33 seconds to stir my favorite breakfast du jour, cottage cheese and mandarine slices, 365 times before eating.  result:  very bubbly cottage cheese (10:52am).

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11/13/09

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an action a day (action 326)

it takes me 7 minutes and 34 seconds to rub my tummy 365 times.  result: tingly and slightly numb mid-region (8:57 pm).

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11/12/09

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an action a day (action 325)

it takes me 2 minutes and 43 seconds to walk 365 steps from Capitola to 42nd, and from 42nd along Grace with a bag of groceries balanced on my head (6:21 pm).

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11/11/09

•November 15, 2009 • Leave a Comment

an action a day (action 324)

the 365th word of the article I am editing is “psychoanalytic.”  it takes me 3 minutes and 3 seconds to count this out, while trying not to let me ambivalence towards this article take me over (4:13pm).

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11/10/09

•November 11, 2009 • Leave a Comment

an action a day (action 323)

it takes me 2 minutes and 50 seconds to count 365 diamond shapes in Susan’s bedspread, while Dumpling sits purring in my lap (9:46pm).

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11/09/09

•November 9, 2009 • Leave a Comment

an action a day (action 322)

it takes me 5 minutes and 03 seconds to count 365 scales along the trunk of a palm tree, while out on Alta street taking a walk with Lulu (4:28 pm).

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11/08/09

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an action a day (action 321)

comparative counting: it takes me 2 minutes and 37 seconds longer count 365 strands of a bush of strandy things (total time: 5 minutes and 49 seconds) than to count 365 dead bits of twigginess in a set of dead-something bushes (total time: 3 minutes and 12 seconds).  while walking on the Westside (11:50 am).

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11/07/09

•November 9, 2009 • Leave a Comment

an action a day (action 320)

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11/06/09

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an action a day (action 319)

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