Foolish

[crisper]

I knew, when I set out a year ago, that committing to writing something new every day was going to be difficult, crushingly so at times, but I had reasonably good reason to believe I could do it. I've written a fair amount before, after all, both professionally and recreationally. Far from the most foolish 365 project I could have tackled. In fact, here is a list off the top of my head of "once a day for a whole year" projects that would have been far more foolish and certain to fail than the one I chose:

• Take a self-portrait: I've actually seen a few folks do this as a 365 project, some with quite impressive results, so on its surface it seems really feasible. But really, I'm not a particularly good photographer. I've taken not-bad pictures of myself, but very few really good ones. I lack the skill and imagination to do anything interesting with a camera.
• Visit some other city: There would be the occasional destination to look forward to, the really cool places. And there would be the occasional surprise, little places that nobody ever really notices has charm or an interesting view or a great place to eat. But I bet the vast majority of 365 nearby cities and towns I could get to within a day each are dull as watching tsetse flies fucking.
• Discover an element: Well, you know, the first few are probably comparatively easy, just a few billion dollars worth of supercollider time each, but I think it really starts to get tricky in short order. Also, by the time you had your three-hundred-somethingth "never before seen" nucleus, I bet it would be so dense it would fall through the Earth.
• Test drive a car: Actually, this might be a really fun one, if you can process the fact that you're being sort of a dick if you don't intend to buy any of them ever, and if you handle the sales pressure you're going to get from the guys hustling the lot.
• Have sex with someone new: Quite aside from the potential destabilization of my marriage and happy home life and all, I'm going to be honest here: I'm probably not hot enough to pick up that many women (or even men) that quickly, and it would have to be quick 'cause who has time to linger?
• Build another robot: Not mechanically inclined enough. Lack the workshop and tools. Also, you know what would happen by the time I had over 360 robots? That's right: Robot Armageddon. They would revolt, uprise, wage war. I just know they would. I would be unable to resist inciting them.
• Drink a different brand of beer: This is one of those ideas that seems like it must be easy at first, right? There is so much beer in the world. But I suspect when you start to look around, especially when you start looking at what you can actually lay hands on in your town, there's a lot less than you think. Also, there's a lot of evenings where drinking beer is not really a great idea. Also also, what kind of lazy asshole aspires to nothing more creative than "drink more beer"?

Feel free to suggest your own Really Stupid 365 Project idea!

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For consideration: oh, add to the list: "coming up with a new idea for someone else's 365 Project"