Woohoo, No School! (Columbus Day Version)

1. Wake up. Realize that it's Monday and not Sunday and that you have the day off. Almost giggle and go back to sleep.

2. Coffee and some lesson planning (good to get the dirty work over with first).

3. Strut to Clinton Hill in new kick-ass pimp coat in search of a cozy coffee shop and some pastry.

4. Settle in in a very welcoming, neigborhoody cafe on Dekalb. Early Grey tea and a raspberry almond muffin. Grade 1st period's benchmark assessments. Blown away by two new students' work.

5. Full of muffin and semi productivity, head off to DSW to spend money.

6. Spend money (new boots!).

7. March up Atlantic Avenue, checking out new and closed businesses in route to Trader Joe's. Make mental notes on the new coffee shops you need to try out on your next day off.

8. Deal with the craziness that is Trader Joe's Brooklyn. You are one of them, and yet you hate.

9. Become paranoid that the eggs are going to be crushed in your awesome eco bag that Jessica gave you (update: they survived).

10. Experience the best B65 bus karma of your life thus far.

11. Oprah and Mike Tyson. Surreal?

12. Cook up some mushrooms and spinach for Moeller's wraps.

13. Continue in the healthy/tasty bran muffin experiment (version 6.0). Will the organic blueberry preserves be the final "it factor?"

14. Write a new blog post to unload brain.

15. Smile at the fact that perhaps the greatest gift of a day off is that Tuesday becomes Monday, which feels like a freebie.