Syllabus #192

Spring Break, an Inventory:

1 head cold, recovered

1 trip to dentist (no cavities!)

1 trip to eye doctor (no cataracts!...for now)

1 haircut (first one since August 2021)

3 trips to Lowe's

1 trip to Sherwin Williams

20+ hours invested in painting downstairs (buying supplies, choosing a paint color, removing art from walls, removing switchplate covers, moving furniture, cutting in around ceilings and molding and baseboards, rolling, touching up, cleaning up, vacuuming, mopping, replacing artwork and switchplate covers

1 tax return prepared (procrastinating the pain of actually filing and letting the IRS take my money)

3 toilets scrubbed

4 loads of wash fully executed, folded, and put away

Damn, I'm tired just listing all of this crap.  I say it every year, but Carson Daly really did us Millennials dirty, making us think that Spring Break was all boobies and body shots and fun in the sun.  Granted, I'm the cruise director here, and I have only myself to blame.  It's like whenever I have multiple consecutive days off, I feel like I have to justify my existence by doing every chore on the face of the earth.  My inner monologue is everyone's meanest restaurant boss, and every time I sit down to read, she's in my face sneering, "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean!"  Like, chill out, Linda, the Russian bus boys are in the shed getting shithoused on the dregs of customers' beer, why don't you go deal with that and let me have this moment.

Yea, 9 foot ceilings and elaborate moldings around numerous windows are cool and all,
until you need to paint around it

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Can we just not with these filters?  It's creepy and demeaning.  You are not a product, don't enage in falsely advertising yourself.  

I'm a huge sucker for Marimekko designs.  Fortunately for my bank account, I don't actually need any of the items created for this Marimekko/Ikea collab.

Ah, one can dream.

The biggest takeaway from this Paris Hilton interview is that she is the GOAT of prank calls.  I guess that's what hotel heiress money gets you - a phone that you use exclusively for making prank calls.  My days of prank calling waned with the death of the Yellow Pages and the advent of caller ID, but man those were some good times while they lasted.

Analog Reading:

Still tootling down the road with Imani Perry in South to America.  It's a slow read, in part because it's not exactly for me and thus there are bits that I have to pause and try to understand, but it's an important book.

Picked up Julie Otsuka's The Swimmers and it is so compelling and so strange.  It's a short book (some might consider it a novella, Stephen King might consider it a chapter...), so I'll probably finish it later today.