The List

• Clean up computer of viruses (and spy programs?)
  
• Back up everything
  
• Defragment
  
• Move pictures & files off laptop onto desktop
  
• Organize SF pictures
  
• Upload my cousin's wedding pictures to SnapFish
  
• Buy smaller desk and larger bookshelf
  
• Clean closet
  
• Go to Pearl Paint for arts & crafts supplies to continue making projects inspired by Teacher Institute and also to get back into jewelry making
  
• Experiment with Digital Video
  
• Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty
  
• Fringe Festival
  
• Lincoln Center Out of Doors
  
• Movies in parks/piers
  
• Summerstage
  
• Find guitar teacher
  
• Find a yoga studio that I like, on my commute from work, with classes at my level at good times for my teaching schedule, for not too much money
  
• Bowery Poetry Club, etc.
  
• Rollerblade
  
• Appalachian Trail
  
• Hall of Science
  
• Liberty Science Center
  
• Explore neighborhoods I haven't been to very often, like Astoria
  
• Shakespeare in the Park and Shakespeare in the Parking Lot
  
• Buy running shoes
  
• Run
  
• Plan Blackout Party (bring candles, board games, and whatever's in your fridge)
  
• Read read read - Middlesex, the new Brian Greene, A Home at the End of the World (before the movie comes out), Island of the Day Before
  
• RNC?
  
• Coney Island?
  
• PLAN PLAN PLAN PLAN PLAN
  
• Contact new teachers + other science teachers I know are working in NYC to see if they want to get together to talk about planning for next year...
  
• Reflect on past year to prepare for meeting of returning staff
  

Yes, this is how I relax.