Sentence examples for assigning myself from inspiring English sources

Once I'd adjusted to the heat and the slow pace, I began leaving my aerie at La Finca more often, assigning myself the serious task of choosing my favorite among the island's many restaurants.

But I think something about assigning myself Saturday as "yoga day" motivated me to go down to the yoga studio and sign up for a 10-class pass.

"When I go to sleep I assign myself a problem, without trying to solve the problem," he said.

Months later, I assigned myself the task of making five volumes, of forty songs each, largely to see what, if anything, my brain would do.

I remain, I who spend a large part of my day reading and writing, because I have assigned myself the task of describing.

I assigned myself the task of finding school backpacks, T-shirts and a 64-gigabyte iPod Touch, and I drove to a stretch of road in suburban Connecticut with a mall and nearly every one of the big-box stores.

Anticipating that this dinner was going to jump the shark, I had assigned myself the porchetta — roast pig — which I craftily planned to buy at one of those mobile butcher vans that are scattered at daily markets across Umbria.

Last year, I assigned myself the task of persuading him to overlook his disappointments with Obama and the Democratic Congress and vote for his local representative, a moderate (by downstate standards) Democrat named Tim Bishop.

Stravinsky once wrote that he could only be creative by working within strict constraints: "My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings".

In my 40s I assigned myself to tantric sex school, took lessons from gifted body workers and tantric masseurs and finally discovered the wondrous variety of orgasms my body had to offer.

(CODA: The next time I'm stuck awake at night worrying, I'm going to assign myself the task of assembling as many existing songs on the topic as I can think of and making a mix CD.  Suggestions?) Go to a comic version of this post » Read previous essays and comics by Jeffrey Lewis at the opinion series Measure for Measure.