cycling to the beach/park/whatevergetting to the beach by any other means available/necessary(!)becoming a better cook, by a daily process of trial and (sometimes) error
Horace Walpole allegedly wrote, "The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."I want to meet both thinkers and feelers--but best of all, those who do both.An interest in the arts wouldn't hurt.....
Belle & Sebastian, eels, Richard Thompson, Joni Mitchell, Pat Metheny, Tindersticks, Thelonius Monk
in no particular order... Lola (J. Demy) Loves of a Blonde (Forman) Nashville & McCabe and Mrs. Miller (both R. Altman) Rules of the Game (J. Renoir) Ugetsu (Mizoguchi) My Night at Maud's (E. Rohmer) In the Mood for Love (WKW) several by Bergman half of Buster Keaton's 'oeuvre' Quai des Orfevres (H-G Clouzot)
reruns of simpsons and seinfeld.
Brideshead Revisited; Candide; shorts by Flannery O'Connor; nearly anything by Robertson Davies, Ivan Klima, Kundera, Hrabal
a bit skeptical of this...