Experiday Recap

Erin proposed that it would be interesting to try to do all of the Experimonth experiments together in a single day. I agreed it would be pretty doable to fit them all into one day, but probably too hard to keep up for a week or a month. So that’s how it started. And we set the day of December 28, 2009 to be our Experiday. Here’s a recap of how my day went yesterday:

• Woke up at 5am (June, check). Immediately went out for a mile walk (May, check), then came back in and did 10 pushups (October, check). And for the first hour of my day, while walking and doing pushups, I didn’t talk to anyone or consume any information either (November, check).
• I tweeted a haiku first thing in the morning (September, check), during my raw breakfast of clementines and a banana.
• I continued to eat only raw food and watch no television throughout the day.
• I went out to dinner with my sister (February, check). We went to a sushi restaurant, but I ended up having sushi rolls instead of all-raw nigiri, and a glass of wine (wine is raw, but it goes against by December experimonth). I decided I needed a real meal because I was feeling pretty lousy by this point in the day. I had a bad headache all day and was feeling really weak. I’m not sure how I got through all of January eating only raw! Yesterday was hard for me and about halfway through the day I figured out that I must not have had enough a) sleep, b) caffeine, or c) protein. So I will give myself 75% credit for January and 75% for December (because I’m still planning on donating the $7 I spent on the glass of wine).
• During dinner I took a picture of my sushi meal (March, check) and interviewed my sister (July, check). Interview: “What would you like to have happen by the end of the day?” “Eat sushi and watch the basketball game.”
• After dinner we went home and watched the UNC basketball game on TV. That was my only TV of the day. If the no-TV experimonth had been during basketball season, I wouldn’t have done it, so I allowed myself this exception (August, check).
• Before going to bed I wrote a letter to a friend. The letter is in the mail as of this morning (April, check).

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