august 3 lmk

It's a fake holiday in Ontario, so we went outside with no real plans because outside is where the things and the people are. Yes, there are also people and things inside, but not as many as there are outside. Today is a quantity play. Ideally, my days include both quality and quantity but sometimes I just want to be overwhelmed by the world. Do you ever get like this? Do you ever yearn to be obliterated by options and dazzled by choice? When you end up people watching, is it because you went outside with that express intent or is it something that just sort of happens because you're tired, or it's raining, or whatever else? I wonder about this sometimes. I wonder if people go out to people watch or is it a recumbent, reflexive, secondary kind of thing? I used to think that thinking about things like this made me odd, then I grew up and realized that everyone is pretty odd even if most people in my experience do not allow themselves time and space to get deep into their oddity. I was…