My garden's a mess - should I waste my life?

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The grass in my garden is about four feet high, an ecosystem is developing before my very eyes. I would like to spend the next ten years watching what happens. I'm 24, in relatively good shape and live quite healthily. There is no history of illness in my family. I can optimistically look forward to another 50-odd years or so. My point being I would like to look back before I die and say I spent ten years devoted to a spurious project, given that I have a few to play with. The question is: what spurious project would you devote ten years to? Or would you?

― Matt, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I love the wild ecosystem

― anthony, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

trying to find out what happened to Enrique iglesias's mole in all his video clips. Or reading blind items

― Menelaus Darcy, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"what spurious project would you devote ten years to?"

My life, and hopefully more than ten years! :)

Oh and the graden thing, it seems like a cool idea. Though would you take out the hogweeds, and other killer weeds??

― jel --, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Writing some kind of book about music.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I would like to spend the best part of a decade in a university in order to produce a very long piece of work that bores me rigid and which noone will ever read. Along the way I would like to suffer emiseration and mental atrophy - O WAIT! I already did that! No more projects EVAH.

― Ellie, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You should blow me a glass bong in the shape of your own head in order to replace the one you destroyed, you visigoth.

― Jarl'rmai, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I promise I will.

― Insincere destroyer of bongs, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

To attempt to forego pithy little ironic quips as a kneejerk response to interesting questions. Though some in these forums could not last 10 seconds in that project. Look back on your life and be proud of your pathetic little ironies! They will write histories of you!

― With Held, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Irony..overload..must..sit..down

― Jarl'rmai, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ooooooh!!

― N., Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

do you mean...

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― Alan T, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*stifled laugh*

― Matt, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA that is SO saved!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://alantrewartha.20m.com/argentin.jpg

― N., Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Matthew, my boy, I’m ashamed of you. You already have a perfectly good spurious project, viz, spending ten years measuring the mental and physical effects of posting nonsense on Ask A Drunk. And here you are, dissipating your energies on – sob! – I Love Everything. Not for the first time, either. You obviously have problems with the concept of commitment – like so many of today’s spineless Lancastrian blissium-louts. Shape up, you disgrace to Her Majesty's uniform!

― Rex, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Watching succession in your garden is not spurious. It's a perfectly good biogeography project. Apply for funding! I am about to spend the next few years of my life doing much the same thing, but in a forest park (and I will get paid).

A good 10-year spurious project for me would be writing a novel.

― isadora, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dude! --rawk on! you totally need to keep watching the slight progressions of your mini-ecosystem! and do me a favor, will ya....name the first un-known species of mammal you discover morgan. thankies! rawk on everyone!

― *morgan, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A tribe of very small men. They, like me, have been out on the lash ALL DAY. I'm sorry, I'm not well. Nevertheless, there was a cardinal beetle in the garden a while back, quite rare apparently, but it was insisting that it was a "turntablist" so I was forced to kill it.

― Matt, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

That's not entirely commensurate with the initial goals of your question. You fail to follow through the abse tone, to whit, a thoughtful analysis of the development of garden, deflating the initial idea with a cheap joke. Shame on you.

― Wojcek, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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