My schedule is filling up!

... well, not really.  But there is so much to do in Paris!

• There are many, many sights to see.  I bought the Fodor's Paris guidebook.  I chose this because it has decent maps, doesn't waste too many pages on photos, and I like the organization.  Instead of prioritizing food and lodgings, it prioritizes sightseeing, and it organizes by neighborhood, which generally leads to more thoroughness than organizing by type.  It also has "focus sections", i.e. several pages devoted to a single major attraction, which is good for geeks like me.
• I have been poking through other guidebooks in the bookstore, which has led to a few pages of notes about less-famous attractions; in addition, other people have recommended things to me.  I have a list of lists.  You know things are getting out of hand when you have a list of lists.
• There appear to be lots of Americans in Paris, and one of the things they like to do is hold salons.  These seems to be most commonly on Sunday nights.  There are also philosophy debates, mostly in French, but a few in English.
• Tours!  There are guided tours, of the city itself and of particular neighborhoods and attractions therein.  I like walking tours, although there is such a thing as too much - they cost adds up and they and often slowly-paced.  But in New York I find they are good for learning about very specific subject matter or for doing things that I would not do on my own.  It might be good, in Paris, to take a generic walking tour to introduce myself to the city.  There is a nighttime biking tour that might be a fun way to spend an evening, less for learning than for seeing.  There is a bike tour to Versailles (you don't bike to Versailles, but you bike while you are there), which serves the purpose of allowing you to see more of the gardens than you would on foot, and also one to Monet's gardens.  I have the (perhaps totally incorrect) idea that a bike tour will be more likely to attract a younger clientele and therefore be brisker in pace; also biking is fun.  There is a chocolate tour as well, which seems not-ridiculously priced for something involving a chocolate tasting.  And there is a tour where a local person takes you around their neighborhood and talks to you about life in Paris.
• I have a list of bookstores. 
• And a list of crêperies. 
• Related to biking, there is exercise.  It is very important that I am able to get exercise in France, so that (a) I do not go crazy with idleness, and (b) I do not have to buy an entirely new wardrobe post-crêperies.  So I have been amassing information associated with running - running groups, running routes, running courses.  Also yoga.  Also I have gotten my trainer (I have been going to a trainer during my period of unemployment.  It is great: I pay a lot of money, and in return I cannot move any part of my body without pain for the following three days.  I love it, really.) to help me figure out a whole bunch of strength-building (or strength-maintaining) exercises that I can do without equipment.  Sadly, they are all of the extremely-painful variety, i.e. pushups.

I am feeling a little bit overwhelmed by how much there is to do, especially since the purpose of my trip is in large part just to be in Paris in a sort of zen-y way, and I am very bad at zenniness.  And I have not even started plotting my novel yet.  I have several ideas, half-formed stories, half-finished projects, etc.  There are a couple of things I could dust off for the occasion.  But I feel like I should start a new project for this trip.  I also feel like I should start it, or at least have some idea of what it is, before I leave.