Things I did in the aughts:
- lived in ten different places
- got a master’s degree
- successfully lived with a cat
- ate dog
- dressed up in a bee costume
- taught English to Korean children
- fell in love four times
- ate roasted grasshoppers in Bangkok
- bought a boat
- sold a boat
- touched the Western Wall
- shed my fish allergy
- became an award-winning filmmaker
- became a published writer
- had a gun pulled on me in Savannah
- watched one of my films in a tunnel in Mexico
- struggled to maintain my sanity
- screamed at a giant peanut statue in Georgia
- read the entire Bible
- ate pork in Jerusalem
- made absinthe
- took Arabic lessons in South Korea
- appeared on South Korean television
- appeared on Cleveland television
- worked at MTV
- saw a lunar eclipse in Tucson
- had a run-in with monkeys in Kyoto
- aged ten years
…and other stuff.