Things You'll Need:
- a dial up internet connection
- computer
- half a brain
- sense of humor
- contact information for H.G. Wells
- sketchbook
- dirty laundry
- grocery list
- and a list of things you have not had a chance to get to before now.
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Step 1
Do you have some time to kill?
I have had some un-forseen difficulties working online this week. I hade some trouble with my high speed internet connection and it took the cable guy a week to repair it. I have been using a dial up connection all week.
With all of the complaining I did- you would think I was using an old 14.4 modem. I lived a lifetime between each email.
Now that my internet connection is finally fixed and I am zooming along once more- I took the time to make note of all of the things I found the time to do while waiting on pages to load. I thought the list might be helpful for those of you still operating with a dial up connection. -
Step 2
The main list of things:
Make sure you finish these things first.
1. take a walk
2. paint a picture
3. use a whole roll of film- always good for inspiration
4. survive an intervention because you picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue
5. work in your sketch book
6. visit a gallery
7. contact H.G. Wells to transport you back to 6, 999 BC and see how well you like your meat uncooked
8. read a book
9. fix a pot of coffee
10. astral project to Antartica to introduce yourself to a family of penguins
11. talk to another artist
12. write an autobiography
13. build a house to hang your paintings
14. graduate from college
15. read War and Peace
16. raise a family of 3
17. prepare a Chinese meal to feed 20 people
18. paint a 30 ft mural
19. make a complete journey to the center of the Earth
20. identify all of the unknown species in the ocean that paleontologists have yet to discover
21. live to see pigs fly
22. run the Boston Marathon
23. wash two loads of laundry
24. re-arrange your furniture
25. discover the meaning of life
26. be reincarnated as a dung beetle
27. watch The Godfather part I and II
28. build your portfolio
29. resolve all conflicts in the middle east
30. cure the top five most fatal diseases
31. grocery shop
32. clean your car
33. clean your bathroom
34. start an art movement
35. market, produce, and hang an entire corporate art collection
36. throw a lump of clay into a beautiful pot
37. restore a ‘55 Chevy
38. create a presentation to approach an art gallery
39. rewrite your resume
40. clean the old names from your mailing list
41. build a frame for your newest work
42. come up with the next KooKoo for Cocoa Puffs advertising slogan
44. solve a Rubik’s cube
45. mow your lawn
46. finish writing your artist’s statement
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Step 3
The most important thing:
Make sure this is the last thing you do
47. lighten up- things could always be worse because I sure got a lot done this week!
