Spring was recently released upon our happy heads, but that’s beside the point for now. What matters today is that a new agenda is born, and not just any agenda, oh no! This agenda is as ‘green’, weird, dysfunctional, irritating, big, ugly, and unethical as an agenda can be.
The key word, however, is ‘green’. We all love green, or well, at least I do. Have you ever needed an agenda to keep track of all your extremely important feats, holidays, meetings with people you’d love to kill? Have you ever been forced to have an agenda to keep track of all your undoubtedly important classes and assignments? Have you ever wanted to make that agenda just that little bit more awesome? Then definitely keep on reading, as that is, more or less, what you’ll be getting!
Agendas are one of those items that a lot of people carry, every day, day in day out. Most of these agendas look the same: bland.
Man behind desk: “What’s your occupation?”
Me: I fight blandness
Wouldn’t that be an exhilarating experience, telling your grandchildren and anyone else that actually doesn’t give a plastic bottle (new expression right there!) that your occupation is ‘blandness fighter’? I sure think it would.
First afternoon of school arrived, and as I came home, freshly packed with new found reasons for depressing thoughts, I thought to myself: there must be something I can do to give that agenda a bit of flair? In the view of our modern day ‘recycle minded society’ (of which the intentions aren’t always that ‘recycle minded’) I was preparing my hands and brain to use something that would normally be thrown away, an everyday object often overlooked as agenda styling material. I made myself think out of the ‘think outside of the box’ thinking, making me come up with something vastly more unexpected than a normal ‘think outside of the box’ mentality would have made me think of. Cut-out water bottles, I spluttered.
What you will need:
- a few plastic bottles (search for pretty ones!)
- a pair of scissors/ a sharp knife
- an agenda
- some strong tape (you can choose the look and wideness)
- a good pair of knees (you’ll need to suppress that plastic!)
How to work:
1. Make sure you have enough plastic to cover the back and front of your agenda, you would not want to come short just that tad. Cut out the plastic in such a way that it curls the least possible. It will be hard if you’re taking it from a bottle, but you can always press it down later.
2. Arrange the plastic on your agenda so that it covers everything nicely, don’t forget the spine!
3. Take out the tape and cut pieces before hand, you will need your two hands once you begin putting it on the plastic.
4. This is the step you’ve been waiting for: it’s time to harass your agenda for real now. Put your knees on one of the pieces, flatten it as much as you as a mortal person possibly can, and tape it down firmly. After the first piece, quickly and swiftly as you can move to the next, while still putting some tension on the previous piece and chain it to the paper. Repeat this for your whole agenda. You’ll notice (or maybe not, I was unprepared when I did this) that some pieces will come loose, if they do: just put your full body weight and some extra sticky plastic on it and it should stay calm.
5. Admire your work and thank me for this wonderful, though probably still not extensive enough, explanation. You did well, young thinker!
The result (well, my explicitly flawed result anyway):
I went for an, uhm, spontaneous look...
I hope you and your brain enjoyed making this as much as me and my hands did, even when doing the lunatic-ish pose of holding curling pieces of plastic down with your knees.
As if the world just wants us to keep on intersecting our conscience from our actions…
