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The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity. -- Marcel Proust

Sunday, May 11, 1997

Laundry is a mundane enough topic, but it always seems like a terrible chore to me.

Let me tell you a bit about my place. I live in a co-operative apartment building. and have lived here since 1990. It's a really nice place, but the laundry room is in the basement, where a member of the co-op lives that I would rather avoid. There are only two washers and two dryers now, which while a one hundred percent improvement over the previous level, is still not a lot. I have a natural tendency to procrastinate on things. Add all these factors up and I don't do laundry very often. Instead I have vast quantities of underwear and socks, several pairs of jeans and a large stack of T-shirts with Freddie Baer designs on them. This simplifies deciding what to wear.

The way my tendency to get into a rut intersects with my imaginative side is that if I find a solution that works, I stick with it, so I don't have to think about it any more. That way my imagination is free to think about whatever my current obsession is, instead of having to decide what to drink at a bar, or what to put on. The drawback would be sticking with a solution far past the time when it ought to be re-examined.

So today I did three loads of laundry. I need to get stocked up on clean clothes, because I won't have time to do much during the film festival.

Later in the afternoon I took the bus downtown to see "Austin Powers." It held up pretty well over the hour and a half running time. Seattle is having one of those beautiful weekends it gets about five of per year.

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