My Return

Its 4:12 in the morning and I'm lying on the pullout couch in my parents new house in Sarasota, Fl unable to sleep from the uncomfortable mattress and metal bars protruding through it and partially from the rumbling of my stomach, the consequence of eating a McDonald's strawberry sundae six hours earlier. I've combed iTunes for any free shows or media that would help me fall asleep. I tried iTunes U as I was able to fall asleep sometimes while being present at a boring lecture in college, which on the other hand feels like a distant memory even though it has been less than a year since I graduated. I consider my self an adventurous person when it comes to trying new things and traveling. However, I want to be more spontaneous and actually go through with things. I remember saying to my BBYO adviser after I was elected to a board position that talk is bull shit and actions are the true measure of success (in a less eloquent manner using some additional expletives). This has always been my problem, I think I am more motivated than I really am. I come up with ideas but rarely see them through. I tell myself that I want to do this or that but end up doing neither and feel regret for wasting time, the most precious resource (physicist will tell you that time is not linear but ask them for an minute or an hour back, its more bullshit). So I am going to post here the things I want to get done within the next week and I will write back next week about my progress.
1) Swim laps - an exercise that I love to do and enjoy more after I'm done, good for body and soul
2) write a handwritten letter to an old friend - I'm think to one of my first friends Maria Claudia , haven't really communicated with her in the last 5 years and would really like to catch up. And/Or Mordy, another childhood friend who made aliyah to Israel and haven't seen in years, though talked to in winter of 2008, still way too long ago.
3) plant cilantro, mint, basil and maybe chives, my three favorite herbs which I hope will lead to me cooking more
4) make a new friend - after college its a little more difficult to make friends as people, myself included, get tied up in their old group of friends and don't branch out much
5) rock climbing - 1/2 fridays with ethan, been saying we would go for months and haven't

So I give myself a full seven days and will write back next week with a progress report.