magic on sunday: anatomy of an impending cold
wake up feeling off. take zinc immediately. gargle with salt water. down 3 glasses of water. take vitamins.
go to work. make tea. raid various office kitchens for your preferred flavors: wild sweet orange and refresh mint. hoard at least 5 of each to hopefully, maybe, carry you through the day. add copious amounts of honey.
eat a salad from sweetgreen every day for a week. despite the expense, convince yourself that flooding your system with green nutrients will keep this impending flu / cold / sinus infection / whatever / at bay.
take a hot yoga class, drench your mat in sweat, and marvel at the toxins leaving your body.
put yourself to bed early, wonder why you don’t go to bed at 10pm every day.
wake up on saturday morning, one eye at a time and assess the situation. assure yourself that you’re likely just a little hungover from the 3 glasses of wine you had the night before, that you’re really probably ok.
but regardless, make tea. take zinc. take vitamins. take a walk, knowing that the morning sunlight is a life-giving force and it certainly must do the trick.
order a coffee at your favorite neighborhood spot that you only go to on the weekends. decide that you are in fact sick, when you start to feel faint and can’t focus enough to comprehend the joke that the barista is trying to make with you.
go home. shower. despite better judgement, trek into manhattan and walk 3 avenues in the pouring rain to visit a gallery.
eat a healthy lunch/dinner/whatever it’s called at 3:20 pm. go bar hopping, but order a coffee first, then just have one beer.
call an uber at 6:15pm, go home and relegate yourself to the couch, knowing that all along, this is where you should have spent your day.
wake up on sunday. take it easy. dump epsom salt into the bathtub, put on kings of convenience, and read the book you’ve neglected since november. soak for an hour.
get dressed. leave your house for the first time at 6:30pm. walk to the closest coffee shop, order a tea, and ask your readers for all of their tips on beating an impending cold.
magic on sunday: 02.11.18
for you - free cake for every creature
lost my head there - kurt vile
in the midst - sir was
suck the blood from my wound - ezra furman
american guilt - unknown mortal orchestra
tossing tears - twin peaks
until sunday,
meghan
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