things you should do

i'll tell you a secret. whenever you have a chance to selfgovernment-imposed long weekends, spend it at home doing absolutely nothing. i swear, those three or four days will seem forever. bore yourself with making faces in front of the mirror. look at your ceiling and pick the color that you want to paint it with. again the secret is not to act on it. watch tv until your fingers hurt in switching channels. imagine where you're supposed to be right at that moment when the picture on tv become hazy. sit in front of the computer and read people's blogs until you realize that you are half-stalking them. look at how many people are online and read all their stats. click the stat if it has a link. look at the pile of clothes laying on the floor. play with your hands and imagine the clothes folding itself and walking straight to the hamper. count the number of shoes that you have and make a mental list of the shoe that needs to be washed. turn your stereos on and blast it to full volume. dance. sing. lip-sync in front of the mirror. be crazy.

but never, never, never think about your life and how it has become. never think of anything that has something to do with how, what, and why you are feeling the way you are feeling. never do the things just mentioned WHILE chugging on alcohol.

never.