Guide to a Lousy Burn

Rule 1: Make Expectation List

- I expect to have my mind blown

- I expect to make the best friends I'll ever make anywhere else

- I expect everything I see to be unlike anywhere else

- I expect to have sex with strangers every other hour

- I expect to feel a warm, welcoming embrace from everyone

- I expect that all my neuroses will melt away

- I expect to be emotionally transformed

- I expect that I'll get over being shy/unhappy/sad/whatever, the minute I step on the playa

- I expect that all the plans I'm making now about what I'll do when I get there will actually happen the way I envision them

- I expect to run into the eight people I know who will be there

- I expect that the people I'm camping with won't be distracted by other things and never forget to include me

- I expect to be happy every waking moment

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A Guide to a Great Burn

  Rule 1: Make Plan

- I will plan for a unique experience, but I won't know what the experience will be or how to deal with it when it happens

- I will plan for my beliefs and boundaries to be questioned and possibly altered

- Regardless of how much I've planned and prepared, I plan that something may happen that was completely outside my plans and that it will be just fine

- I will plan to make the best of any situation, but realize that I'm my own limitation

- I will plan to let go of my expectations

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(Posted to BCWA email list by s1 on  8/12/08