How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Taylor Tomlinson

Taylor Tomlinson, the comedian and writer who has hosted the CBS speech and assortment amusement “After Midnight” for 2 seasons, has lived successful Los Angeles for 9 years. But acknowledgment to a robust stand-up docket (her now-in-progress “The Save Me Tour” has 76 dates booked crossed North America and Europe done January, including an L.A. hometown amusement scheduled for Aug. 10 astatine the Greek Theatre), she’s lone astir L.A. for astir 20 Sundays a year.

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“I effort to bash 2 weekends connected the roadworthy a month,” Tomlinson said. “But sometimes it ends up being three. Usually my Sundays are spent flying home, and I’m doing my leisurely things connected a Tuesday astatine noon.”

She was much than blessed to crippled retired a Sunday program that doesn’t impact “a layover sitting successful a java store successful the Phoenix airport.” It would commencement with making immoderate matcha and caput toward a adjacent with sushi and a movie. In between, she’d deed a flea market, a bookstore (to people immoderate spiral-ring notebooks) and the outdoor spaces astatine the Huntington.

This interrogation has been lightly edited and condensed for magnitude and clarity.

9 a.m.: Whisk up immoderate greeting matcha
In my cleanable world, I’d autumn dormant astatine midnight and get 9 hours of sleep, which would beryllium perfect. I americium not idiosyncratic who tin grip java due to the fact that I get headaches. So I usually marque matcha astatine location with unsweetened almond milk, and I adhd cinnamon and usually usage a small spot of vanilla macromolecule shingle arsenic creamer successful it. And I bash it iced.

I spell to a batch of java shops erstwhile I’m connected the roadworthy and ever person to inquire if their matcha is presweetened, due to the fact that a batch of places marque it with chromatic oregon sweetener already successful it. But much mainstream places are getting unsweetened, ceremonial-grade matcha, and that’s what I use. I’ve got 1 of those bamboo whisks, and I similar the full regular of boiling h2o and past whisking successful the matcha powder. I truly consciousness similar I’m doing something.

9:30 a.m.: Back to furniture with a book
Then I’d bring my matcha backmost to the furniture and I’d work for a bit. I truly conflict with letting myself work for fun, because, for a agelong time, I wouldn’t work thing that wasn’t teaching maine thing oregon had immoderate benignant of self-improvement constituent to it oregon was astir drama oregon business.

I’m moving connected a publication of my ain close now, truthful I’m presently speechmaking Chuck Palahniuk‘s “Consider This: Moments successful My Writing Life aft Which Everything Was Different,” and for amusive I’m speechmaking “The Dragon Republic,” the 2nd publication successful R. F. Kuang’s “The Poppy War” series.

10:15 a.m.: Self-scramble immoderate breakfast
I similar going retired to meal erstwhile I’m connected the roadworthy but, erstwhile I’m home, I similar to navigator for myself. So I’ll bash a scramble with immoderate eggs, turkey, zucchini, spinach and doorbell capsicum and past apical it with immoderate avocado.

11:45 a.m.: Make for the Melrose Trading Post
This mightiness [sound like] a truly basal Sunday, but I’m not successful L.A. precise much. So I would spell to the Melrose Trading Post [flea market] implicit astatine Fairfax High School with immoderate friends of excavation due to the fact that it’s a mode to socialize. Zach Noe Towers and Sophie Buddle and I bash [stand-up drama on] the roadworthy a batch together, and erstwhile we’re location connected a weekend, this is thing we bash together.

I’ve bought a batch of leather jackets there. I person mode excessively galore jackets — an insane postulation of jackets. It’s a existent problem. I bought a weird lamp there. I deliberation the past happening I bought determination was this wardrobe [from J. Martin Furniture] that was green, and they said they would overgarment it immoderate colour I wanted and person it delivered. So I had them overgarment it a dusty roseate that matches the flowers connected these vintage pillows I had conscionable gotten for my bed. The wardrobe fills retired the 1 blank partition I had near successful the bedroom. It’s truly cute and makes maine truly happy.

They person nutrient and euphony and worldly to portion too. Last clip we went we got immoderate Thai nutrient from a motortruck and hung retired for a bit.

2 p.m.: Vroom implicit to Vroman’s
From determination I’d caput to Vroman’s Bookstore successful Pasadena, which I hadn’t been to until precise recently. It’s a immense autarkic bookstore, and they person virtually everything determination — books, gifts [and] stationery — truthful I’d astir apt bargain a notebook. I’ve got truthful galore notebooks. The 2 things I overbuy the astir are vintage jackets and notebooks. I usage antithetic types of notebooks for antithetic [purposes], but they’ve each got to beryllium spiral-ring.

I similar [notebooks] that are agelong and skinny for my acceptable lists. I similar stenographer’s notebooks for caller jokes due to the fact that [the pages] person a enactment down the middle; I usage 1 broadside for jokes I cognize enactment and 1 broadside for jokes I’m not definite astir yet. And I similar a truly large notebook to diary in. Then determination are the benignant I find astatine flea marketplace vendors erstwhile I’m connected the roadworthy wherever they crook aged children’s books into notebooks and permission portion of the [original book] substance successful betwixt the [blank] pages. This 1 [she holds aloft a spiral-ring notebook with the rubric “Peter Pan” connected the cover] is by Red Barn Collections. I deliberation I picked it up astatine a flea marketplace successful Salt Lake City.

3 p.m.: Head to the Huntington
If I didn’t beryllium and constitute successful the cafe astatine Vroman’s, I’d caput to the Huntington. I’ve been a subordinate determination for years, and sometimes erstwhile I person a full time off, I’ll spell determination for awhile. I’d either spell to the broadside country wherever determination are a fewer chairs and beryllium and work oregon spell to 1 of the benches that place the Japanese garden. If I was writing, I’d bash that successful the cafe.

5:30 p.m.: Sushi successful Studio City
Since the Huntington closes astatine 5 p.m., I’d caput to this sushi spot successful Studio City that I emotion called Sushi Tomoki that opens astatine 5:30. I similar to get determination close erstwhile it opens due to the fact that it fills up truthful fast. And it’s truthful good, and the work is accelerated adjacent erstwhile they’re packed.

7 p.m.: Take successful a movie astatine Universal CityWalk
Since I’m successful Studio City and my radical of friends and I are each AMC Stubs A-List members, I’d spell to Universal CityWalk to drawback a movie. CityWalk is what it is, but it’s adjacent to the sushi place. And the AMC theater determination is truly good. If you spell with a clump of friends, you tin divided the outgo of parking. I emotion to speech astir the movie afterward, truthful alternatively of conscionable lasting by the car talking astir it, we tin locomotion astir [CityWalk] and speech astir it. The past happening I saw determination was “Paddington successful Peru.”

10:30 p.m.: Tea clip earlier bedtime
At this constituent it’s astir apt beauteous precocious erstwhile I get home, truthful I’d astir apt portion immoderate beverage — I bash a licorice oregon a ginger beverage astatine nighttime — ablution and past work for awhile. Or possibly bash immoderate journaling oregon doomscrolling successful bed, depending connected what my temper is. And hopefully autumn dormant by midnight.