I Turn 30 Way Too Soon

May 6, 2008

shirt back

Please come swim with me in La Jolla Cove (map) to celebrate my 30th birthday on May 23rd. I’ll be jumping in at about 6:30pm.

After a quick swim out to the ¼ mile buoy and back, we’ll go to Hoboken Pizza at 8. After we eat pizza, we’ll go to Cass St. Bar and Grill. After that, we’ll probably play Mario Kart on the Wii at the Sundwall residence.

Oh, and I’ll give you a t-shirt like the one above if you promise to swim with me. Leave a comment or email me to pledge your swimmingness. The tremendously talented Eric Shansby illustrated the design for me (here’s a better look at it), and I’ll be printing it on some hand dyed American Apparel shirts for everyone interested. The text says “30 Years That Didn’t Hurt” in Spanish. It’s something of an homage to Kurt Vonnegut who said he wanted his epitaph to read “Everything was beautiful. Nothing hurt.”

It’s also a roundabout way of saying that these 30 years have been really truly beautiful—the proof being in that I have the best wife, an awesome family, a sea to swim in, and friends to eat pizza with.

If you want a shirt, but don’t want to swim, send me at least $15, and tell me what size you want. We’ve got men’s and women’s medium, large, and extra large. All proceeds will go toward an upgrade to Adobe CS3. You can PayPal to jedsundwall at gmail dot com, or just email me and we’ll figure something out.

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Alex Hunsucker

I’m not swimming in that ass cold water. I also have no desire to see you naked. Even the blurred photo gives me nightmares.

I will, however, buy a tshirt – because it’s cool, and it’s your birthday.
http://www.leefurwork.com Lee

FWIW, I’ll be there to stare into the abyss from afar. But I ain’t swimmin … I’ll totally drown and die and ruin your birthday.

Btw, get it in while you can – this is the scant period in our lives where I’m done with my 20s and you’re still basking in them!
Katie Nesmith

Jed,

Wish I could join you…the Hudson is nowhere near as good as the Cove. Happy 30!
Danny Paz

Hey Jed, you must be getting up there. Didn’t you use to do this at midnight??? I wish I could be there. I hope to see you sometime that weekend! Happy Birthday dude.
http://jedsundwall.com Jed

I used to do it at night, but it got too scary the second time around. I don’t want people dying on my birthday, let alone my friends who are nice enough to get in the water with me.

Thanks for the well wishes everyone!
Timmy V

Jed, you know that I have always been (along with you) one for swimming in oceans (preferably naked) at any possible opportunity. I am very sad to be missing the mighty 30 swim…would love be there. I may be able to swim from in Potomac to there, but we’ll see. Either way, mucho congrats on the big day.