shabbat

It's Saturday, and the same old question arises, much like Friday but even more vast and pregnant with possibilities for disappointment. How to spend this day so it doesn't feel wasted?

On the one hand, we just want to sit around reading at the computer, puttering, and (one of us) watching TV. On the other, well -- there's all that Saturday-evening letdown looming: Here we are facing another harried week (starts Sunday morning, with school beginning at 8 a.m.) and we haven't taken real advantage of our paltry day-and-a-half weekend. It's that fear that gets people into their cars for a trek out to the country somewhere, despite the horrific traffic jams as all return in the evening. That's not for me -- I'd prefer to spend the day emptying my veins in the bathtub.

So what to do with the day?

Gotta get to the gym. Gotta visit the in-laws. What else? The park? The beach? The zoo?

Oy, anybody for another cup of coffee?