What are you going to do?

It's been five days since the school year ended, and I've already been asked countless times (by friends, family, students and strangers) "what are you going to do all summer?". My response has been: whatever I want. However, let me expand here.

I'm going to. ..
wake up whenever I want to and stay in my pj's for as long as I want. Stay up late to watch movies and devour books like my mom's chocolate chip cookies fresh from the oven (and maybe work on writing more authentic similes). Eat whenever I want, use the bathroom whenever I need to (not when a bell rings), and check my e-mail how ever often I want. Lay in my hammock, in my bathing suit, as often as possible. Attend happy hours: at noon, four or nine o'clock. Fish. Or at least be in the boat. Walk, bike, run, rollerblade, drive or skip to various locations. Plop down in a chair at B&N, hope not to fall asleep, and browse through deocrating books. Think about what I can do better next year to reach more students. Take my niece swimming and lay for hours on the floor watching my nephew roll himself over.
Visit my out-of-state nieces and family members. Walk around Ridgedale, try on clothes, and not buy anything--for hours. Enjoy random happenings and then blog about them.
Allow someone with little kids and a huge cartful of groceries to go in front of me and say, "It's okay, really, I have the time."

So the point is, I don't have a plan for the summer. And I don't have to.