Good Morning! It’s Columbus Day, Here’s What You Should Do

Read: Maria Konnikova’s The Limits of Friendship as published by The New Yorker last Tuesday. It presents a question we’ve been asking since the first Facebook poke was transmitted from one IP address to another from a scientific point of view spearheaded by Robin Dunbar (of The Dunbar Number fame): what happens to our social skills as our digital social networks continue to grow?

If that’s too much for you for 9AM, why don’t you reacquaint yourself with Saturday’s reader submission titled, “Like a Woman.” Brunch chatter doesn’t sound like a bad idea either.

Make: a matcha smoothie because health food is de rigueur — trendier than cats, even. Also, it’s 9AM and technically speaking, you have nowhere to be until tomorrow morning.

Use: one cup of almond milk, two table spoons of matcha, a table spoon of chia, one banana and one date for sweetness. Image care of The Roasted Root

Chase that smoothie with a glass of red wine because, again, technically speaking you have nowhere to be until tomorrow morning. (But also because I recently read that drinking a glass can kick start your metabolism much the same way that working out does. I don’t remember where or whether it’s true but let’s go with it, YOLO.)

Buy: something frivolous because Yoox is currently offering 40% off already reduced merchandise and this particular transparent number by Maison Martin Margiela really wants to get to know you better. Or so it said.

Think about: Brigitte Bardot, in St. Tropez, posing on water, in breton stripes and jeans.

We can be that girl. Let’s be that girl.

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Get: a ten minute back rub. You deserve it.

And, finally, user engagement matters off of social media, too! Answer this –

No, but really.