Saturday, September 6, 2014

Escaping Suburbia


Lately I have made it a goal to try my best and devote one day of my weekend to a series of events I like to call Escaping Suburbia.  Just yesterday I brought my favorite wilderness companions along with a quest to make it to the Eternal Flame Falls (a second attempt to a previously unsuccessful mission).  Long story short, we made it, and it was magnificent.  It was a memory that I will hold fondly forever and I found myself think on the way home how deeply sad I was that it was over and I had to go back to my “real” life being a student and working and dealing with Aunt Petunias. 

This steered my thoughts in a direction that lead to a list of things I would rather do than go back to school and work

Without further ado, here is…

The Long List of Things I Would Rather Be Doing Than My Civic Responsibilities

1)      Forage for my own food

2)      Yodel on top of a mountain

3)      Climb the highest tree I can find

4)      Learn how to back flip

5)      Stare at the moon

6)      Stare at a pineapple

7)      Stare at anything that isn’t my teachers

8)      Watch grass grow

9)      Dress up as watermelon

10)   Run into a Hollywood film set and flip every table I can find

11)   Build a larger than life replica of a Furby

12)   Develop night vision

13)   Knit a sweater

14)   Knit two sweaters

15)   Wear the sweaters to a sweater party

16)   Learn how to speak fluently backwards

17)   Make lunch with Michele Obama

18)   Ride a hippogriff

19)   Get my Hogwarts acceptance letter

20)   Comb my eyelashes

21)   Get struck by lightning (and live!)

22)   Bro fist Bill Nye

23)   Talk to my stuffed animals

24)   Churn butter

25)   Hand dip my own candles

26)   Buy the Bills and force them to perform Alice and Wonderland for me

27)   Build a house deep in the forest for nomads

28)   Be able to pay my college tuition…

29)   Have Donald Trump pay my tuition

30)   Discuss the philosophical resonance of children’s movies with Ellen DeGeneres

31)   Meet a centaur

32)   Inhabit Beyoncé’s body

33)   Free fall into a vat of Jell-o

34)   Go down Niagara Falls in a barrel (and live!)

There you have it… feel free to share with me your list of things you would rather do than whatever you’re supposed to be doing!  I hope one day both you and I will be able to do most of the things on our respective lists.  Until next time, my friends.

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