My favorite Listserve email was from Luke Neff on June 7, 2012. It was the fifth Listerve I ever got, and I loved it so much that I decided I would do something similar if I ever won the lottery. A little over two years later, here I am. Thanks for the idea, Luke. :)
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09-04-11
"What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person."
…56 translations later we get:
"I think I am kind."
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07-28-12
Comic idea
Workers are clearing a road. They start bulldozing through a hill and bones start spilling out.
“What do we do, boss?” Boss shrugs. They’re on a timetable, so they should keep going.
Later, a worker cuts into a steak. Tiny bones start spilling out.
A worker does laundry. When he lifts up a portion to put in the wash, a skull tumbles out.
A workers mows his lawn. Instead of grass clippings, bones spray out.
The road is abandoned.
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08-16-12
Simon Says alarm clock
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09-11-12
What actually drives happiness: relationships, unique experiences, feeling self-validated, achieving personal goals.
And again: I wonder how much our current mental state is dependent upon our ability to imagine a happy/fulfilling, realistic future?
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11-16-12
in the future, we must pick what information to store in our brains.
love? emotions? do extra abilities take precedence over those?
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11-28-12
12:01am
can you try? i don't know you anymore, you know. don't i try? you can.
life - is it worth living? this is what i ask myself. ask i, "what? is this living worth it? is life?"
palindromes are hard. how to? how hard are palindromes?
can you believe? what is this? this is what: believe you can!
3:31am
you swallow pills for anxious days and nights, and days, anxious for pills, swallow you (aric maddux)
3:58am
for the past couple of weeks i've been chewing my mouth raw
biting the insides until they're too sore or they bleed
i've been eating jalapeño pringles
it hurts
4:02am
am i tired? i am.
i am tired, though. will i live? i will, though tired am i.
am i tired, though? will i live? i will, though tired. i am.
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01-04-13
what if in the future, we had to choose what cyborg we are
iHuman or Android or µHuman or whatever
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03-05-13
I don’t want to enter that room if I don’t know how to get out
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04-14-13
robert said
you haven't been this sad in a long time
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10-12-13
Ideas
Tissue shirt (for comforting other crying people)
Brown sugar mochi in poop shape
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10-18-13
Sometimes at night I get so lonely I cry. I browse the internet through my tears, searching for people who hold the same opinions I do or share stories of things I have experienced, just to feel a connection to someone.
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11-20-13
i just ate a cronut
my life is a mess
a cronut is like 600 calories
i'm going to die
i'm dying
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12-21-13
I’m always unsure where triangles will take me
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05-25-14
Silly Cone Valley
Ice cream flavors:
C (chocolate)
C++ (double chocolate)
Java (coffee)
Groovy (rainbow sherbet)
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08-02-14
robert said
i'm glad you aren't as sad as you used to be
but you're a lot less creative now
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I love biking, ice skating, crocheting, drawing, and programming. When I was eleven, I wanted to be a pediatric oncologist. I became a software engineer. I dislike avocados. I've dealt with crushing depression. I'm passionate about accessibility, blood/bone marrow donation, hospice care, and mental health awareness.
Feel free to email me with fragments of your life. :)
San Francisco