Thursday, 05 June 2003 | A letter to myself

Listen up. Just because you don't have "plans" that involve another person, that doesn't mean you don't have plans. What I mean is, it's okay for you to occasionally decline an appealing offer to hang out with interesting people and instead stay home, because it isn't fun to be exhausted, overwhelmed, and unhealthy. It also would be nice if you would start chipping away at Stale Email Mountain, maybe sit down and read a book, go to bed early, or even do one thing in a single given moment, rather than constantly multi-tasking. It's not surprising that you fed some strange envelope to the ATM and can't remember doing it, because, of course, you were distracted by the phone that was delicately balanced between your left shoulder and ear. It's sad that sometimes you choose not to wear a scarf because you can't simultaneously wear a scarf and perform this phone trick, because somehow it seems essential to have the use of both hands while talking on the phone.