OK, we're not even at Day One yet, and it looks like I'm in trouble.
I cannot make a paper crane.
I've been trying now for the better part of an hour. My desk is littered with crumpled scraps of paper -- none of which look anything remotely like a crane. Help!
This is the wrinkle I never expected. I figured I'd spend half an evening learning to fold an origami crane, and then I'd be off and running on my 100-day experiment. The worst obstacle I expected to run up against was boredom ... or maybe guilt at using so much paper.
Now I'm defeated before I even get out of the starting gate. I tried everything: written directions; how-to videos; Wikihow. At one point, you're supposed to open your already-many-times-creased paper square into a boat shape ("a canoe," one helpful video lady said).
I tried. And tried. And tried. Nothing doing. That damn piece of paper wasn't gonna cooperate. "At first it will seem impossible," chirped the directions, "but with patience you'll get the hang of it!"
Oh, yeah. Patience. A virtue we angry people have in abundance. And mine just ran out. I'm going to bed.
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