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24 September 2010

#268 Find new uses for rooms

Your job should be more fun, your workplace more decorated and your longing for the weekend a bit less desperate now at the end of "Seven things you can do at your workplace".

Just because it is called a “sidewalk" doesn’t mean that you can only use it for walking. You can do a thousand other things but because some bastard decided to call it “sidewalk” it limits your thinking on the spot. It's up to you to find the secret entrances, the hidden carrots in the background and the keys to unlock new levels in the game.

Every time after I'm out running, I stretch in the courtyard in front of our house. I usually start with the back leg and then lift my leg up and put my foot on the table into the yard where the big angry cat usually sits. It's not called a stretching table. At my old job I used to go into the telephone room and read comic books. At my work before that I used to have lunch in the cool stairwell. Invent your own functions for things and find bonus dimensions in existing rooms.

- Meditate on the toilet when the air outside feels too intrusive.
- Do push-ups behind the Coke machine at the entrance.
- Take a break and read a paperback on the roof when the sun is blazing.

Text: Navid Modiri

Required time: 
1 day or less
Cost: 
Free
Cons: 
Some may think that it’s not suitable to sit in the bathroom and do things that are not related to rectal or urinary functions.
Pros: 
Your world expands.
Taggar: workplace, printer distal, new purpose, new dimensions, meeting rooms, comic books, canteen, 365 things you can do
31 August 2010

#242 Write a book

When I was little, I had trouble sleeping. I had nightmares about shelters, burglars, men who beat their wives with acoustic guitars and large dragonflies that exploded. To be able to sleep, I started reading comic books. And as you know, comic books often lead to heavier things such as children's books, youth novels and finally there you are eight years old with an 700 page book wondering, who the hell is Stephen King?

The nights grew longer and longer. I didn’t sleep. I wanted to read. After a while I started to ask myself who were these people who had their names written on the books. I realized they were writers. I was told that it was possible to be one. I learned that this could be a profession.

After that I had my dream in my hands.
I decided to become a writer.

Required time: 
1 week or more
Cost: 
Free
Cons: 
It takes a long time to write a book. If you don’t write a short book. Then it takes less time.
Pros: 
If you write and publish two books, you will be part of the Swedish Writers Union and can apply for scholarships or borrow their Writers' apartment in Paris where you can eat bagels and say Oui! Oui!
Taggar: 365 things you can do, baguettes, fantasy, writers' union, nightmares, Paris, comic books, writing a book, Stephen King