My Cosmic Autumn Agenda

To do this fall:

• continue watching Gilmore Girls DVDs
  
• drink things with some kind of spice in them
• go to a concert and wait outside in the cold, underdressed, for an hour before the doors open
• take a day trip to Princeton, try to pass as a student, browse the Record Exchange, keep eyes peeled for Joyce Carol Oates or Paul Krugman
  
• watch Rushmore
• watch It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
• watch Night of the Living Dead
• have my annual work-related meltdown
• make another attempt to enjoy drinking red wine
• carve a Rudy Giuliani jack-o-lantern to scare away neighborhood kids
• find a quad somewhere; walk through it while wearing a scarf
• come up with a clever Halloween costume on November 1
• listen to "Alice's Restaurant"
• eat 5 pounds of stuffing (preferably on Thanksgiving)
• come to the conclusion that autumn is overrated; start looking forward to winter