The Sunday of Sloth

Yep folks, this is it. It's my last Sunday before school starts this Thursday, and I have errands to do the rest of the week in preparation. I haven't had the kids this weekend. I have had nothing to grade. The house is already clean because...I haven't had the kids this weekend. Yeah, I should get some syllabi all set up for the five classes I am to teach, but I figure I'll do that while I'm waiting for my car tomorrow (time to do a lot of maintenence stuff to my car...timing belt, etc...yes, I will be broke when they are done).

So many options to just be as lazy as possible! It's very hard to choose.

Thus far, what I've done this weekend has largely been eat, sleep, talk to Alex on the computer, talk on the phone, drink alcoholic beverage, read, and go to the grocery. It'll probably be some variant thereof that I do today.

My cat has suggested to me the Old Cat method of relaxation today. That means that I sleep nearly the whole day and get up only to use the bathroom, move to a new location to sleep, or eat. He likes my bed, the sofa, and my feet at the computer stand. I draw the line on the carpet by the computer stand, but I can do the sofa or bed.

After reading the first five City Hunters (old Japanese manga from decades ago, but good shit!), I also have the Ryo Saeba method of doing nothing in there. I like Ryo's style. He can eat as much food as three people. He spends his waking hours trying to grope, feel up, and screw the opposite sex. When he sleeps, he sleeps in the nude, sprawled all over his bed, snoring, hands in inappropriate places, and is impossible to wake up unless you do something like wave a porn magazine under his nose. Yup, gotta love Ryo. He has that lazy ass stuff down PAT!

Other methods of being lazy today might mean more action, but more fun as a result. I live in South Carolina, so buying more alcohol is not an option today. I remember my daughter once asking me why there were no alcohol sales on Sunday but it was ok for the rest of the week. We were in the grocery, staring at the darkened beer area, and she had wanted to know why the lights were out. I told her. She said, well, if you can do it the other six days, why is it bad today? I said, well, some folks think you shouldn't drink on Sunday in particular because it's supposed to be God's day and I dunno, maybe there's some sort of fear you'll go to church drunk or not show up to church if you had too much alcohol. She laughed. "That doesn't make sense!" she told me loudly, much to the disgust of the older woman ahead of us. I made the older woman far less happy when I responded, "Yeah. I mean all it does is make the alcoholic have to plan ahead!" Anyway, the more action but more fun thing means something like...leaving my house right now to fetch a Sunday paper and some krispy kreme doughnuts. Ahhhhh! Or later on eating something out. Wait, that doesn't sound right. I mean, eating FOOD at a RESTAURANT or something. It means I'd have to shower and actually put clothes on, but hey, showers feel good and that would fit in with the whole do-nothing, feel-good plan.

Or maybe I'll do a great bubble bath, bowl of ice cream, and a good book! And light up candles around the house!

If Alex were here, I'd have a whole host of other options available to me right now. Sigh.

So, now it's all about figuring out HOW I want to do nothing constructive on this last Sunday before classes.