If you don't have a job

Here are some things you might do:

1) Wake up at 8:45.  Decide to keep sleeping until 10:30. Or 11.

2) Make coffee. 

3) Look at recipes for leftover turkey, and make a grocery list.

4) Go online to check email.  Don't respond to email, because, hey, you have all day.

5) Listen to NPR stories about how terrorists fund their operations through minor illegal activity, such as ATM robbery, Credit Card Fraud, Tobacco Trafficking, etc.  Think about other parts of the world.

6) Drink coffee.

7) Look at dishes in the sink.  Observe crumbs on the floor.  Notice piled up recycling.  Get mad at roommate for generating all this mess.  Decide not to clean it up to "teach" him a lesson instead of talking directly to him.

8) Drink more coffee, check facebook page.  Think about going out for breakfast.

9) Recall that roommate put away dinner dish you left on coffee table, and didn't complain to you.  Decide to take the "high" road and clean up after roommate...which he does a lot of with you.

10) Think about applying for job.

11) Check bank balances online.

12) Decide not to go to grocery store. Decide not to go out for breakfast.

13) Get dressed in casual, working at home outfit.  You may workout, so best to not shower until you've made that decision.

14) Check outside temp.  Damn, it's cold.  Too cold to power walk?

15) Think about the sauna on the ships and warm weather and contemplate a job on the cruise ships.

16) Re-engage with writing assignment for ideation agency.

17) Get bored.  Look up more recipes.

18) Start to watch Lost Season 4 Finales.  Shout out "No Becky, turn it off, get to work."

19) Realize this is the first time you've spoken out loud today.

20) Email friend about movie and lunch date next week.  Hope he will offer to drive (again).

21)  Think about used bookstores where you can buy xmas presents for parents.

22) Consider selling CDs for money.

23) Check email.  Don't respond again, because, hey, it's only 1.  You have all day.

24) Think about xmas gifts for rest of the family.  Oldest nephew teased you about Borders gift cards.  Is it time to stop giving them?  What would he like more?  When did you become the not-cool aunt? Or, by virtue of nephew teasing, are you the super-cool aunt?  Are you a bad aunt?  Should you move back home?

25) Check email.  Check lineage of Royal Family.  You did not know that after Edward abdicated to marry the divorcee, Wallis Simpson, he was governor of the Bahamas for five years.  Think about your trips to the Bahamas.  Think to yourself, wait, was it Bermuda or the Bahamas?  Go onto Wikipedia to confirm.  Get distracted by reading of the parallels between Edward and Wallis and Charles and Camilla.  Consider the claim that Edward had Nazi sympathies.  Also, think about Rose Kennedy, wife of then-Ambassador Joe Kennedy, would not dine with Wallis.

26) Buckle down, really, and start writing.

27) Lunch time!