The Theory of the Day experiment is the notion of privileging certain ways of thinking and (therefore) conclusions and actions over others (and, ideally, over the paralyzing effect of having 500 Theories Every Day). A "what-if" made as concrete and non-negotiable as the weather. In the experiment, I'm also hoping to analyze each theory on its strengths and weaknesses both in relation to me and in relation to time and tasks.
Most broadly, I am tangled in the liminal. I get tied up in categorizing, sorting, prioritizing, and managing the things that can't easily be articulated or contained. Physically, it's the projects in progress, the pieces that would, in the age of Teh Internetz, receive multiple tags. I don't do well with recognizing borders, though I am drawn to them and dance around them. I don't do well with endings (and what else are borders?). And I don't do well with rote, simple tasks and things that have no flirtations with other categories. I want my foods and things and tasks to be more that just what they are. I need to be able to read more into them, project more onto them, get more out of them. In that, they are the ends as well as the means.
Because I'm not great at borders and categorizing, I tend to be all tangents. Rather than being a circle with clear borders and solidly filled color, I'm threads and lines of different colors that, at a given distance, will look like a circle. The side effect of pieces of life thick with meaning is that they're also full of questions and challenges. I'm constantly trying to articulate who I am in the world, and this self-definition is always in a conversation with the world. I examine my borders of who I am, and the world challenges me right back. Grocery shopping is a political and ethical dialogue, job hunting places me in discourse with my religious beliefs, going to the bank makes me reconsider my relationships and human evolution.
