At long last a LiveJournal by Jeri Smith-Ready

The winner of the CD giveaway for Monroe's story is...alishsmom!  So just send your mailing address to jeri AT jerismithready DOT com, and I'll see that your brand-new copy of Alvin Youngblood Hart's Big Mama's Door gets on its merry little way.

You have until 9pm eastern tomorrow night to enter to win a signed copy of the phenomenal debut novel by Stephanie Kuehnert,  I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone.  See my interview with Stephanie for details.

Now...my birthday is Friday, and I'm hoping to get all my work done before then so I can take the day off.  I'm trying to figure out how I want to spend my day.  So far I have two ingredients:

1. Sending Chris to Sam's Bagels for breakfast sandwiches, coffee, and a dozen bagels, a treat I usually save for Deadline Hell.
2. Reading the entire Y: The Last Man comic series by Brian K. Vaughn. The tenth and final volume just came out a couple weeks ago.  I've read the first two, but then stopped and waited for it to be over so I could glom it all at once.  That's how I tend to operate with series.  Does anyone else do this?

Other than that, I'm coming up dry.  I'm so unaccustomed to days off that I don't know what to do with them, and I'm afraid I'm going to end up wandering aimlessly around the house, then accidentally fall into a mad fit of filing.

So I'm looking for inspiration.  If you had a free day with no responsibilities, how would you spend it?