Date: 2014-03-09
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¢We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.¢ - Terence McKennaIn the spirit of preparing for the AT:1) I've been sleeping about 10-11 hours a night.2) Made zero schedules - I get to it when I get to it.3) Eating lots of chocolate, tons of coconut oil, and consuming eggs ill-advisedly like Rocky Balboa (no, I'm not serious. I enjoy cooking my eggs).I've been lucidly dreaming every night for the past week and think this will probably continue throughout the AT. There's a chance I snore or worse - hysterically laugh in my sleep. Sorry if I do, people! I've been waking up in the morning literally laughing out loud. Fortunately for all you shelter people, I intend to tent. I didn't really have dreams I could recall for the past several years and I attribute that to always being in a state of borderline burn out. Kind of hard not to be in a funk when you're constantly disturbed by the thought that you're not living/using your body the way it's naturally intended to be used. It's a never ending battle of self conflicted feelings about the way we live... let's not get into hippy talk of we're destroying the Earth and ourselves. I'm just really looking forward to a long distance backpack. I don't want to care anymore. One of the first metaphorical revelations I've had in my life was from playing n64 as a kid. I realized that you can figure out if you're going the wrong way if you run of bad guys to kill or if the game stops resisting you. What's that thing Winston Churchill said about having enemies? Something about not having enemies means you're not doing it right. Well, I'm not exactly making enemies but there's certainly a lot of life resistance against doing the AT. I'm taking that as a good sign for leaving a monotonous life in the wrong direction. Hello bonus level! Who knows what's going to happen down the road when I finally defeat the federal student loan boss with $29,000 hit points remaining. I'm going to do it on my own terms and that takes fighting some demons.Less than 3 weeks to go. I intend on writing a blog entry on the Appalachian Trials site about my nutrition game plan. Not going to tell people things as if I know what's best, but hopefully I can get more people to consider the foods they choose in a different light. What will my staple source of nutrition be? Coconut oil. Please feel free to message me about anything you would to see me talk about.