Ten Things About Staying at Home

I've been at home more days than not in the last ten since I got back from Barcelona, so here's a list of the things going on in my life in no particular order.

1. No, the dishes really won't just wash themselves. You have to get up and scrub them or face the passive-aggressive wrath of your otherwise less-hygienic roommate.
2. Resting on the laurels of your supposed levels of hygiene as an excuse not to shower for four days is unacceptable.
3. Coming up with new ways of making the same ten ingredients in your cabinet will make you feel like a rocket scientist, except that if you share your discovery on social media, no one will care.
4. You will not fuse to the sofa regardless of how hard you attempt to.
5. Any activity that warrants actually leaving the house calls for a bath in cologne, even just a stroll to the supermarket.
6. It is entirely possible to trick yourself into thinking that you've been productive because you found new music, watched a show, and cleaned the house one afternoon. Don't fall for this.
7. The more time you spend at home, the more enticing buying cheap trinkets to decorate it with online becomes. Don't fall for this.
8. You will suddenly find yourself in a routine and get bored of being in your routine with no seeming recourse from it. You will then get bored of being bored of it.
9. Inspiration will strike at random and run away from you just as quickly. Do something with it right away instead of thinking better of it and procrastinating on what you think you ought to be doing instead.
10. The more hours you spend on it, the more you realize that instead of interacting with people on social media, you're just interacting with lists and half-baked articles on blogs and "news" sites, like this one.