David Sedaris

So when I'm on tour...

Let's say I get back to the room.

I've signed books.

I get back to the room at one o'clock in the morning.

And then someone's taking me to the airport at seven o'clock in the morning.

Well, then maybe I have to get up at five o'clock in the morning.

And then I can usually walk like, I don't know, three, four miles in the airport.

And sometimes I can walk in the

Uh, but I still need to get a bunch of steps in before we leave for the airport.

So, you know, and then sometimes you're in a city and you don't really know the city very well and it's dark, you know, so you're walking around the hotel around and around, you know, just that block.

Or sometimes you see that you're going to have time later in the afternoon, so you can kind of parse it out.

But I have writing to do, and I have Duolingo, and I have the walking to do.

So it's a lot.

What languages are you reading and saying aloud?

German and Spanish and French and Japanese.

That's a lot.

Now, this new obsession you have with hitting your step count via your Apple Watch and then also doing Duolingo, I'm curious, is this a stand-in for some kind of OCD that you may have?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, it's been all my life.

It's been one thing or another.