I don’t really feel like thinking about work, and I don’t feel like working. When I get like this, I like to think about all the things I could do if I didn’t have to work, like if I suddenly came into a giant hunk of money and didn’t have to worry about health insurance…

What I would like to do if I didn’t have to work:

• Spend time with my 85-year-old Granny and interview her so I could write her biography.
• Travel — mostly to see and spend time with friends, but also to see the world.
• Exercise regularly, maybe even get a personal trainer.
• Focus my chi at sunrise tai chi sessions with people who’ve been practicing for 50 years
• Volunteer three times a week
• Read every book in the literary canon

What I’d likely do if I didn’t have to work:

• Visit with my Granny but forget to write down her interesting stories and be too self-conscious to ask the good questions that would give me the real insight on her life
• Schedule last minute trips to see my friends where I would have to fly in and out at horrible times of the day and not get enough time to visit them. Plan visits to countries I don’t know much about without really doing enough research and end up coming home not having seen the things I would have most enjoyed
• Exercise occasionally for a couple months then lose interest all together
• Sleep too late to get to tai chi or yoga, watch too much daytime television
• Volunteer once every other week and feel overly important about it
• Struggle through Tolstoy and then get sucked into Diana Gabaldon novels