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“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. […] Nothing has worked. Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and the vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. In other words, I don’t improve; in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable. I set this matter down not to instruct others but to inform myself.” – John Steinbeck

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February Fun-A-Day

February 1, 2010 by vtinjp

I am hereby participating in the NYC February Fun-A-Day.

Here’s a description from my friend Jessie –

“please join us!!!

Taking inspiration from our comrades in Philly, we are putting a call out for the 1st Annual NYC Fun-A-Day so that we can all make it through the end of winter.

The concept is simple: Choose one fun thing to do each day for the entire month of February. Share the final product(s) at the Fun-A-Day Show on March 1st (location TBA). If your fun-a-day is to make artwork or produce something, bring those things to the show. If your fun-a-day does not result in a final product, make a record of your product in some way to share at the show. While this has primarily been an arts-based activity in Philly and other cities, we really want to see people doing all sorts of fun things (and even challenge artists to do non-artistic fun-a-days) so think outside the box. this is not another NYC gallery show.

Check out what Fun-A-Day is all about and what others have done in the past from the Artclash Collective, the brilliant founders in Philadelphia: http://www.facebook.com/l/00a3d;artclash.com/”

My fun-a-day will be studying Japanese everyday this month. It’s been almost two years since I’ve picked up my Japanese For Busy People workbook. My vocabulary has all but disappeared and I want to change that!