Things to do on a weekend alone

1) read the New York Times for hours, sentence after sentence, story after story
2) drink tea, without interruption, while it’s still hot
3) take a long nature walk with the dog, walking briskly all the while, without coaxing/dragging/carrying a non-cooperative child
4) consider the ethics of making veal stock and then veal demi glace
5) reject the project on the basis of its complexity, not its ethics, although those questions remain unresolved
6) see Squid and the Whale, which husband refuses to see
7) have a Ben Stiller- Owen Wilson film fest: Starsky and Hutch, Zoolander (which husband would refuse to see, were he here to protest); wallow in their sublime idiocy
8) see Casanova for another Heath Ledger fix; husband would never agree to that one
9) eat breakfast (brunch? lunch?) at noon; eat lunch (dinner? linner?) at 4
10) indulge book-buying vice online
11) lose time staring at the ceiling fan and thinking about who knows what, but thinking complete thoughts without being interrupted
12) Read Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Bistro cookbook and realize that entire cooking concept has been flawed for entire life up to this point
13) daydream about having a new kitchen
14) consider, and then reject, many cleaning and sorting projects on the grounds that they can be done tomorrow
15) SLEEP to the fullest; sleep when tired; wake up when rested!