Daily Archives: April 28, 2003

Tantek’s being clever again…

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My friend Tantek put up this very interesting post a while back.

He came up with some categories for organizing his life:

grow
restore
maintain
prune
close

You should read the whole post to get his thoughts on it. But I found this framework to be really thought-provoking.

Sometimes, a new perspective, a different way to approach the problem, can give you a place to begin. So, I’ve been trying out this new categorization idea. Taking a look around my life, it becomes apparent to me that there are some things I want more of (to grow), some things I want less of (to prune) and some things I really want to get rid of altogether (to close).

It is one of my life-long habits, to look at the shape of my life and try to adjust it to what I really want. It is very easy for all of us to get into the cog of doing what is next on the list.

But what about evaluating the list?

So these categories give some tools to evaluate the list.

Thanks, Tantek! You have inspired me to get closure on cleaning my patio.

_Never Been Kissed_

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As far as I’m concerned, the whole point of this movie is when Drew Barrymore is standing on the pitcher’s mound and everyone in the whole packed stadium is applauding her wildly.

That ALONE is a huge-normous fantasy fulfilled.

And it’s the first scene of the movie.

The rest, except for the very end, is flashback.

The whole thing is fantasy fulfilled. For everyone that’s looked in the mirror and come up with the perfect response to yesterday’s taunt, here is your movie. Everyone would like to go back and do it right this time.

High school was so tortuous, we all have things we’d want to do over. So that’s what Josie (aka Josie Grossy) gets to do.

It’s cute, and it’s horrifying to remember all that high-school drama. And the crying in the bathroom scene! I swear, there could be a whole documentary about girls crying in the bathroom.

Naturally, it’s all cathartic, and she emerges an empowered woman, finds her true love, etc. etc.

And that’s what makes it such a good movie. I’d watch it again.