David Sedaris

And I suppose the only good thing you can say about it is you don't know what it will be next, right?

Like it never occurred to me that the walking, I mean, I always walked everywhere, but it didn't occur to me that

I would simply have to walk a minimum of 10 miles a day before my friend Dawn came to visit and she had a Fitbit.

And it never occurred to me that I'd have the Duolingo thing until Dave, who was trying to learn Spanish, I was on a tour of the UK and he's my tour manager there and he showed me and signed me up on his program.

The day before that I was free, you know.

And it's been all my life, it's been one thing or another.

What was it before?

I'm trying to even think.

Because it's hard for me to give them up once I have them.

Well, like even writing in my diary, right?

I started writing in my diary one day when I was 20 years old.

And I've never not done it.

I mean, every now and then, let's say if I go to Australia...

A time difference will cause me to lose a day every now and then.

But, oh my goodness, the thought of not doing that.

Boy, again, the earth would just spin off of its axis.

Can you explain to people what Duolingo Max is?

And then I want to read a little bit from the book.

Sure.

Duolingo is a language learning program.