Hejinian, on 1: "[E]veryday life is hard to define and too multifarious to be adequately described. In its porosity, it accepts whatever arrives in it, and, in its plentitude, it obstructs attempts to assign it exemplification or location. It defies both metaphysical conceptualization and ontological specificity, even while it comprises the grounds for concrete existence and proffers life's requisite material and contextual relationships."
expanded upon on 37: "Any set of predicates [...] or list of qualities or characteristics attributable to, or descriptive of, everyday_life will turn up binaries and contradictions. It is a terrain of heterogeneity and incommensurabilities, of seemingly assimilated unassimilables or invisiblized visibles."
Also this, on 36: "Everyday life is composed of the sub-historical details of numerous strata of experienced and unexperienced life. But it is everywhere a product of history-shaping forces (class dynamics, technologies, received and inherited ideas, established practices, derived expectations, established roles, current ideologies, etc.); the forms of everyday life and practices that are undertaken as an expression of those forms, even when the practices deform them, are suffused with history"
"the everyday is perseveringly quotidian, banal, filled with insignificance; it is the microcosm of biological maintenance. And that, of course, is utterly binding on us."
we are involved in "[t]he microcosmic business of staying alive"