day 7 is in the books! is that an expression? on the books? one for the books? either way, it is DONE and wow, what a delightfully varied day it was. here are some thoughts from day 7!
i'm hoping that i'll be able to do a blog post tomorrow but i have an EXTREMELY long day of walking, so don't worry if i can't get to it or if it comes at a bizarre time! you can always check my instagram for (slightly) more regular updates. see you soon!
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it's day 6 and i am halfway through my project and halfway through my project and NOT halfway through my project. i'll get into the nitty gritty of what that means exactly down in my thoughts from day 6!
okay! time for stretching, snacks, and probably watching some run bts episodes. i listened to the new psy song that suga produced like 2,700 times this morning. what a bop. wowie zowie, i walked A LOT today! i'm actually still about two miles from my resting place for the night, but i'm having a bit of an airbnb odyssey (thus the evocative blog title) that i'll get into down in the daily bullet points. here are some thoughts from day 5:
i'll check in with you again tomorrow!!!! see you then! day 4, day 4, day 4! i had the latest start so far today - i didn't need to be on the road until after noon but my body has gotten used to getting up early. it probably doesn't help that i'm still conking out around 9 PM lol. i had a pretty chill morning of getting rick rolled in a dunkin' donuts while i mooched off of the free wifi and a really lovely walk to my first interview of the day!
here are some thoughts from day 4:
see you here tomorrow for more updates (hopefully with fewer blisters)! day 3 on the road dawned absolutely grey and gloomy! what beautiful weather to walk a mere 13 miles...or so i thought. after a nice long rest on day 2, i was excited to get back to walking feeling relatively fresh, and for the first mile or so i did feel pretty good! here are some thoughts from a roller coaster day 3!
Against all expectations, I got out of bed this morning! There was a brief moment where I thought "Uh-oh! These legs aren't going to DO what they're supposed to do!" But I was out on the streets of Long Island by 5 AM and wow, who knew there was a quiet time? Or a time without bumper to bumper traffic? I ended up walking down some little suburban road called "Intervale" and began to worry I might have entered an alternate universe.
Here are some overall thoughts from Day 2!
And that's everything! One interview tomorrow! Hey all! It's Elena. I'm stopped for the night and I had a shower and FINALLY! put my feet up. Wow, today was hard! Definitely fun, definitely interesting, and definitely hard. It was one of my longest mileage days right off the bat, which was no joke! I felt really, really good for the first 12 miles and after that, things slowly got slower...but: here are some amazing thoughts from a great day.
What is a Cult based on thirty seconds of internet searching
By: Elena Faverio, Aged 28 I realized instantly that I don’t know what a cult is, so I googled cult definition. Then I realized I don’t want definitions, I want transfiguration of meaning through time so I googled “cult etymology” not entomology which is about bugs. The word cult comes from Latin “cultus” which meant first: tended, cultivated, tilled - like a field is then: care, labor, cultivation, culture, worship, references And from French “culte” which is worship, homage, and late a particular form or system of worship. Popular before the 17th century, obsolete for two hundred years, and then revived in reference to ancient or primitive systems of religious belief and worship in the 19th century. I wonder at the difference between ancient and primitive, how the words couple and converge along Caucasian feelings and findings. I have gotten most of this information so far from exactly one (1) website: which is: entymoline.com under cult (noun) And it looks hella plagiarized as I read it back so please leave me alone. This is how information is passed in these non ancient and non primitive Western societies. This is how we learn about shit, and learn it good. I am not convinced by any of these definitions so far, but we’re in luck because NEXT UP is Hugh Rawson, who apparently wrote something called Wicked Words, which I will pause and research. According to fifteen seconds of googling and the top link (Amazon, surprise surprise) Wicked Words: A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-Downs, and Other Formerly Unprintable Terms from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present by Hugh Rawson is availed in Paperback form from $24.44. Condition: Good. Sold by Bay State Book Company. And Amazon. What the fuck is an Anglo Saxon? Hold, please. According to the Oxford Dictionary and Google - Anglo Saxon is an adjective (what the fuck? an adjective? Okay) relating to or denoting the Germanic inhabitants of England from their arrival in the 5th century up to the Norman Conquest. Or a noun (yes this is what I thought):
Hmmm. Old English is hyperlinked for bozos like me who are on a late night Wikipedia odyssey of terms that they only sort of know, definitely have an idea of what it encompasses in their head, but could never adequately or accurately describe or convey that knowledge to another person. We’ll leave it for now. Back to Hughie Rawson and his wicked words! According to Hugh, the word cult means “an organized group of people, religious or not, with whom you disagree.” Incidentally Hugh wrote this definition in 1993 which is the year of my birth which means it’s time to talk about me. NICE. According to Hugh, here are some things that are cults:
Wait, what the fuck is a despot? Oh okay, according to Oxford it is a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way. So I was using it correctly. Although wait apparently there is also a rapper known by the stage name Despot, birth name Alec Reinstein, who was born in Queens in 1982. Not much info on him. Oh shit, I googled him and he’s a white guy. Weird. Is it ever possible to be a white rapper and not be constantly appropriating from and profiting off Black culture? Some more cults, according to me: -White suprematists -Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers -Parents who yell at Board of Education meetings -People who want to have children -People who’s favorite season is not fall. -People who liked the film LalaLand. I would turn in this valuable research, but I learned about Despot on Wikipedia, and my teachers always told me that’s not a viable source of information. |
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