nan's tips for a good day:
1. Wake up and lie in bed for a while.
2. Have some coffee in bed and read a zine or a newspaper while you determine if you want to call in sick to work.
3. Call in sick to work.
4. Get up and play with your cat for a while. You could take this time to give him/her a brushing which you never do.
5. Take a walk around the neighborhood, once you've gotten dressed of course. You could always wear the blond wig you stole from Christine if your hair is too overwhelming.
6. Come back to the apartment and make chocolate chip pancakes. Share them with your cat.
7.Call your bandmates and your significant other at work and say that you just COULDN'T do it...you couldn't give in to The Man today. Draw a still life of your leftover pancakes while you talk on the phone. Put it on your fridge.
8. Get out your guitar and play for a while. Revisit the first songs you ever wrote and realize how far you've come since John Denver covers.
9. Think about cleaning your room. Decide against it.
10. Write your morning pages. You know, 3 pages every day of anything at all, just don't edit yourself. You read The Artist's Way, and that was the best exercise in it. Well actually, it was the only exercise you remember.
11. Think about a way to get all the girl bands in New York City together ---think about trying to have some kind of East Coast Ladyfest for 2001. But you'd have to watch out that it didn't get too Lilith-like. Must think about this more.
12. Call up Farrell from Moxie and see what she's doing. She doesn't answer so leave a message in French.
13. Sing Le Tigre's "My, My Metrocard" at the top of your lungs.
14. Go to rehearsal with your band. Work on new songs and older songs. Appreciate the language you've developed together....feel proud that you are making up songs that mean something to you. Wish you could let other young women know that they can do this too; they can SUBVERT THE DOMINANT PARADIGM......they too CAN RAWK.
15. After rehearsal, decide you must go to Kiev and have potato pancakes with sour cream and applesauce.
16. Go home and practice handstands. Notice your stomach is a little full and try to modify.
17. Your significant other comes over and brings chocolate crepes.
18. Get your SCHWERVON! Get it on! Notice your full stomach doesn't bother you anymore.
19. Sing "Did you ever know you were my hero?" to your lover and your cat. Try to hit all the different harmonies in the shower.
20. Call Farrell from Moxie again and leave another message in French.
21. Unplug your alarm clock before you go to sleep. You have decided you must quit your job immediately so you can do this again tomorrow.