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Sundays are dumb

YoursTrulyYoursTruly
edited June 2014
why are they

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  • 000000
    Sunday is the best.

    Fewer social obligations. You get to stay home, do the laundry, nap and read the paper. We worked out at 8:30 this Sunday, that was cool. Now my arms hurt too much to hold the paper up.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I'm not good at idleness, in spite of how lazy I am
    I want to be better
    it's all because I don't have a good book going right now
  • 12341234
    1. get on the computer
    2. drink a beer
    3. work out
    4. pat your dog's head
    5. call josh and see if you can hang out with Calvin
    6. if josh says no, call Jessica and ask again
    7. drink a wine
    8. stay in your gym clothes all day
    9. think about pizza, but eat a healthy salad
    10. read that boring book you are procrastinating on
    11. walk your dog to get an iced coffee (for you, not the dog)
    12. tell the barista you'll have "what she's having" not realizing she ordered a fucking QUAD SHOT ICED AMERICANO. Ugh, who does that... my heart is POUNDING.
    13. invent a new internet project and email all the people (writer, photographer, developer) you'll need to make it happen
    14. think about writing something, realize you drank too much coffee and you're not in a good place for that right now
    15. think about spending too much money on a "summer t-shirt" for your dog
    16. wonder if you can teach your dog to jump through a hoola hoop
    17. get a little stressed about not having an idea for your next column, then blame that stress on the iced coffee
    18. contemplate you might need some downers after that coffee
    19. and maybe a snack, like tacos?
    20. there is no such thing as idleness, only idle bodies (the mind never stops!!)
  • 000000
    SUNDAY!

    try to name a company
    move furniture around in the rental upstairs
    find beer
    laugh while mike eats salad and you eat pastries, mashed potatoes, chocolate and beer
    lay in sun
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    I love a Sunday!

    sleep in til noon
    be hungover, body feels like bag of sand
    bf comes over to make me an omelet and becomes my hero
    long walk
    get iced coffee
    suddenly animated, such talking, garbage feeling is suppressed
    stop at pet store for a new cat's collar
    fun/harrowing dip into fred meyer
    pick flowers on the way home
    drink some sparkling water
    paint my nails
    put big star on the hi-fi
    get ready for yet another poetry reading

    JUST CHILLIN THE FUCK OUT

  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Went on a chill 13 mile bike ride yesterday* so I feel super OK taking it easy today.



    *Chill except for the part where a three car accident almost happened and I almost had to watch my wife getting smashed by a car going really fast. WATCH OUT WHEN CROSSING N PORTLAND RD UP NEAR MARINE DRIVE. PEOPLE ARE TEXTING AND DRIVING OUT THURR.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    stare at computer
    finish re-reading Lucky Jim for second time
    stare at computer
    forget to eat lunch
    feel gross
    sit and stare for awhile
    walk dog
    take bath
    sunday can stick it
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I think because I was supposed to have coffee with an old friend but then he canceled at the last minute and then I was shiftless because I was like "oh good I'll get work done" but then wasn't in the right head zone.

    I shoulda gone on a fun trip with uncle boats. I blew my sunday!

    Yesterday made up for it though, with a canoe ride that was second to none

    now i'm doing laundry

    nothing to fear but fear itself!
  • SchlabeSchlabe
    I wake up early and play basketball, it is awesome. then I have a few hours to myself - in this case outdoors and electronics work, and then I have game night with the dudes. I love Sundays!
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    yt you better start Hild
    it is good
    I promise
    it will fix yr dumb sunday
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    I woke up in DC, got brunch, bought Capital in the 21st Century and a cool Carl Sagan book, got on a plane, and now I'm back in Portland and hanging with the kitty.

    Washington DC is awesome! I liked it more than NYC! Surprising!
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    The National Mall with all the museums is pretty sweet.
  • 12341234
    I heard a thing on the radio (actually a podcast) about how buildings in DC can't be taller than the street they are on is wide. That seems like a cool weird law!
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_of_Buildings_Act_of_1910

    Sasha said she thought the law was that buildings couldn't be taller than the Washington Monument, but it looks like it's the width of the street! So weird. I like it though! Makes it feel like Paris or some shit. Didn't DC have the same designer as Paris?
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Yeah, the Illuminati.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    Shay Shay guess what? I already read Hild like AGES ago, I've been meaning to tell you/give it back to you. Read it in what felt like one sitting!

    THANKS
  • SchlabeSchlabe
    I wonder if that law has to do with sunshine and shade? It's the one thing I worry about with all these tall condos popping up here in PDX.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I get you, but it's kind of funny to think that that's what we consider "tall." When you go up to the top of the big pink building and look down at the East side, it still looks like some little old timey shanty town.
  • curtcurt
    The building-height restriction is a large part of why it costs so much to live in DC. It severely limits availability of housing in the District. This results in a limit to the number of residents paying city taxes in DC and forces people to commute (quite a few by car) from Maryland and Virginia suburbs.
  • zinzin
    Right, and it's counter to urban planning that promotes density, and it's a facilitator of gentrification. Not that anyone's got gentrification licked, but inadequate housing stock is a powerful force for it.
  • distant_shoedistant_shoe
    edited June 2014
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  • zinzin
    Christian neighbors are my dealbreaker
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