Dérive by JJason Recognition
January 16th, 2008 12:25 AM
So there I was, in the worst place in the entire world.
No, that's not entirely accurate. Let me begin again.
So there I was, in the Mall of America. I'd come to check out the local sears, to see if they had anything I wanted spend my Sears gift cards on,* but having done that I was looking for something else to do. Now I've found that tasking is always a good fall back position when bored, but what task? After some thought, I decided to Dérive. So off I set.
While Dériving, I worked to induce a feeling of wonder, innocence, and openness in my self, so that I could better follow my whim - I usually plan my actions out fairly in depth, so abandoning all of my usual reasons for movement took some effort. I fear that I occasionally dropped into a more planned action, but generally I did fairly well. The story of my travels is laid out in the pictures. I'd recommend that you view them one by one, instead of making the photos larger - I think the story will be more effective that way. Most of the emotions and impressions described in my tale are accurate, although possibly exaggerated.
It should also be noted that it was freaking cold that day.
*Not really
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That Mall is depressing. What a ruddy awful, flourescent-lit place to shop.
Votes though.
You got that right. I largely try to avoid it.
Basically, I think it's fair to conclude that MN0 regards the Mall of the America as an excellent place for one thing only: tasking. (see also: Nintend0)
You can feel the stupid cold biting your ears off, but the pictures of the roof are the only ones that feel more or less right to me.
A vote inspired primarily by your description of Ikea.
It's just some oak and some pine.
Also, a handful of norsemen.
Why Susy, you mean one of my favorite completions came from Ikea?
Perhaps I should have gone to Ikea instead of Santa Monica.
I don't know about anybody else, but when I submit a task I usually have a general feeling about how many votes I think it deserves, and a few things in mind that I particularly enjoy. And then if it gets less/more than that number of votes I become sad/confused, respectively. I similarly get sad if nobody else seems to enjoy that things I like in the praxis. I usually don't bring it up, because that'd be whining.
I bring it up because I'm glad that one other person in the planet liked my Ikea description.
I thought the description was perfect.
Vote for dealing with the dilemma of not planning where to go. That's one reason I haven't done this task yet.
Congrats on level 3.