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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

 

A recipe for vacationalizing time?
As Lindsay and I sat in the raised, carpeted area in the front window at Kopi Cafe (where you take off your shoes and sit on pillows) this Saturday, watching people walk by through the big, fogged up windows, she said that when she moved here, she was worried that life wouldn't be the way that it was when she visited, but that it is. I agreed that many weekends lately have seemed quite vacation-like. That morning we had retrieved her computer from the post office, visited a typewriter repair shop to get a ribbon for her awesome yard sale typewriter, found some treasures for both of us at the Chicago Filmmakers Co-op sale (pretty film reels and canisters for me, another typewriter for her), planned the menu for the following morning's brunch, and escaped the cold and scored a nice sunny table at Kopi. Not normal vacation activities per se, but really enjoyable anyway.
What does it take to turn regular life into vacation-feel life? Spending time with people you don't need to explain yourself to? Going to places off the beaten path? I need to think about this, and try to make more days and nights feel that way.

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