Today was a typical lazy day of summer vacay.
The sun wakes me up at a little past 9:00 am. Note: waking up past nine am is not really sleeping when you fell asleep past 3:00 am. My "summer vampirism", as a I've termed my tendency to stay up late and wake up late in the summer, is in full effect. The only thing to cure it is for me to go on a trip. And since I've got less than two weeks until I'm off to Paris, I'll just go with the flow.
I wake up, eat some yogurt, and turn the TV to the numbingness of CP24. Rilo curls up on me and we both fall asleep while my fave summer guilty pleasure "The View" is on TV.
I decide to take myself out for lunch 'cuz, heck, why not? I finish book #23 of the year after lunch. It was pretty meh, but I liked the author's description of going on a vacay to Paris after her divorce. (Did I mention that I'll be in Paris in less than two weeks? Ha-ha. The excitement's sinking in.)
My favourite part of writer's trip to Paris is her description of government posters in hotels and restaurants that say "Beware! Alcohol kills slowly." Someone had graffiti-ed below this: "We don't care. We're not in a hurry." Awesome.
Then I decided to get a ginormous coffee and a celebrity-smut magazine and enjoy them both in the little park near my place. As I walked to the park I thought "I love this neighbourhood, I'd love to live here forever." I should have picked up a lottery ticket with that magazine since property values around here are sky high.
I listened to Neko Case (so addicted to her these days) on my iPod as I drank coffee and pondered at what a complete and utter douchebag that Jon Gosselin is. Yuck. I've never ever watched that show, and Kate seems abrasive, but at least she's taking care of her kids and not running around with cheap-looking 22 year olds while wearing tacky Ed Hardy shirts. Team Kate all the way.
I wander home and decide to blog before I tackle the unhappy task of cleaning my apartment. However, when I'm done, I think I'm going to walk to a little market and stock up on fruit and buy myself some flowers. Then, I'm going to start reading my next book, which I believe will be "The Book of Negroes" by Lawrence Hill. It's the summer reading selection by my staff bookclub, and I'll have to take notes so I remember it when we meet in the fall.
Tomorrow night I am oh-so-excited to see the new Harry Potter movie. I know the ending, since I'm a big fan of the books, but I'm pretty sure I'll cry at the end of this one.
p.s. Does anyone know how to underline in blogger? There's no underline button!! What demonry!
8 comments:
I fall asleep during The View every morning too. Try as I might, I can't make it past the hot topics. I love summer holidays!
Christa
I think underlining is hard in HTML. Underline looks like a link.
hi
Who's this Obat Kanker person?
I was going to say try "ctrl u" but that doesn't work either - what the hell!
Also your day sounds amazing....sigh. Still so jealous.
Paris is such a beautiful city I just love it! Depending on what you like to do and how much time you have I would suggest a lazy stroll through Pere Lachaise cemetary it's gorgeous!!! As well there are the creepy catacombs though it's a bit of a hike back up there stairs and they will check your bags to make sure you didn't steal any bones. Clearly they've had problems with this in the past...how odd!!
The stairs...not there stairs!
I will have to borrow "summer vampirism" when I'm describing my state of being to my family and friends.
The Book of Negroes is a great read. I liked it. Aminata is one character you will never forget.
if you switch to the HTML editing tab you should just be able to use 'u' and '/u' each enclosed in 'greater than/less than signs' around what you want underlined.
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