Townley

7:45 am

I wake up at 7:45, and actually physically get up out of bed at 7:55. I ask my boyfriend Corbyn how his poker game was last night, he lost. I ask him how my friend Ed did, he lost worse. I get up, go to the bathroom, go back to lay in bed awake and do the wordle. I didn't get the wordle today. I finally get up again at 8:20. I get back up, brush my teeth, put on my deodorant, brush my hair, and get changed for yoga. 

8:40 am

I walk with my roommate/best friend Shiloh to yoga, we talk about the fact that one of these days we’ll leave the house early enough that we won’t have to haul ass to yoga before they lock the door.

10:05 am

Yoga was nice, not as much of a burn as last week but really nice. Almost farted in downward dog, but I stayed strong. The instructor complimented us on our flow, not sure what that means but I’ll take the compliment.

After yoga we walk to a nearby coffee shop, then get two coffees and a bagel. I got a 16oz latte with whole milk and caramel syrup, Shiloh got a 12oz pumpkin spice latte but it was really a dirty chai, (I wondered halfway through my drink if maybe we grabbed someone else’s order by accident) and then we split a toasted everything bagel with scallion cream cheese. 

We sit outside and eat our split bagel, and talk about a creepy guy on the fringe of our friend group, and our general disdain for my friends not distancing themselves from him. After we talk loudly enough for enough time to get some odd glances from passersby (that’s the plural of passerby?? tf?) we walk in the direction of home while we keep talking about the guy. 

10:45 am

We get back home, walk upstairs. Corbyn is in the kitchen. He asks how yoga was, we tell him about it and about our gossip sesh. Once I settle in at home, I’ve got about an hour before I have to leave the house again. 

11:30 am

I get changed and gather my things for DND (dungeons and dragons). I walk to my car, which is a block away. I drive to my friend’s apartment. I run into a ton of traffic and have to detour past city hall and just take S Broad all the way down. 

12 pm

I get to my friend’s house. One of the campaign members, Matthew, isn’t here today so I get to steal his comfy chair. When I get here, Kevin C, Jena, Riley, and Ed are already there. Kevin P comes in a few minutes later with food. He got me a bbq pork banh mi for lunch. 

Today’s DND session is a continuation of our Halloween session since we weren’t able to meet last week. It’s a Frankenstein’s monster inspired session. Halfway through the session Jena got Chinese food, I asked her to grab me a pork egg roll. 

3:30

We end the session around 3:30 which is a little earlier than we usually end. The session was fun- we beat the monsters we were battling and made loose plans for our next session. 

4 pm

I get home around 4. I come home and Shiloh is in the kitchen making soup and Venezuelan pastries and sweets, it smells really good (oddly, the dulce de leche and the chicken noodle soup specifically smell good together). I go upstairs and Corbyn is working on a freelance project, he’s a video editor. I give him the second half of my banh mi that I didn’t finish. I lay in bed for a little bit, and watch brain rot on my phone. My arms are sore from this morning and I’m super tired. 

4:30 pm

Around 4:30, I get up and head to my room. There are some chores I’ve been putting off for a while (I got sick last weekend though so that’s my excuse!).

I start some loads of laundry, clean my room in the process, and water some plants that have needed water for quite a bit. I didn’t completely finish cleaning my room but I made a lot of progress, I can see my floor!

5:30 pm

I go downstairs and I help Shiloh and Corbyn make obleas from communion wafers I ordered on Amazon and dulce de leche cans from a Mexican grocery store Shiloh and I went to on Saturday. I probably ate more obleas than I actually helped make.  

The last chore on my to do list for today (that I’m actually going to get to) is inventory the produce/perishables in the fridge. Shiloh, Corbyn, Kevin P (previously mentioned from DND), and Kev’s friend (and my acquaintance) Josh are going to Vegas on Thursday for a Fallout New Vegas Festival, so I want to make sure I can get through the groceries in the fridge and that none of it goes to waste.

7 pm

I do a little bit more tidying up in my room, and then come back downstairs and make dinner. I reheat some chicken pot pie I made the night before. It tastes way better than it did yesterday. It’s got delicata squash, leeks, shallots, and those bougie multicolored carrots. It looks like a bowl of cat vomit with puff pastry on top, but trust it’s delicious and tastes a lot better than it looks. I sit on our kitchen stool and hang out with Corbyn while he does dishes.

8:30 pm

I go upstairs and play some Fortnite with Corbyn and Kevin P. We won one game and lost many. Shiloh came in, then we started talking about our familial lives. Because I was still on discord with Corbyn and Kevin P, the conversation turned into discussing logistics for Vegas. 

9:30 pm

I wrap up for the night, brush my hair, go to the bathroom, and brush my teeth. I migrate over to corbyn’s room. He’s back to working on his freelance video editing project. I read A Little Life while he tells me more about the video he’s working on. I don't recommend A Little Life. I’m on page 733 out of 814. I feel very strongly about this book not being good. It definitely evokes strong emotion, but I think the tragicness of the book gets conflated with it actually being good, but it’s dog shit.

I don’t finish the book before I go to bed, but I’d like to finish it before I leave for the trip so I can pack a more reasonably sized book in my carry on.