Originally Posted by EasternATC

OK, forum experts, how would you handle this routine situation?

You are in a Skyhawk five miles southeast of your destination, an uncontrolled airport with standard traffic patterns. You've been listening to the CTAF and know that the wind favors runway 36, and that it's typically busy for a pretty Saturday morning, with two transient arrivals and one closed traffic already in the pattern. How would you enter the pattern?