To Do List

Hmm... let's look at the insanity. (Well, not really. But my list does go to show that tasks can pile up even when you supposedly have oodles of free (unemployed) time.)

Wash dishes.
Do laundry.
Make another set of curtains.
Figure out something to do with the windfall apples before they rot.
Yoga.
Eat both breakfast and lunch.
Do research for a winter class proposal (yes, you did read that right).

That's probably enough for today, but here's a few other things hanging over my head:

Update Quicken.
Continue entering keywords for photographs in Photoshop.
Add additional recent photos to the files.
Burn a CD-ROM with pictures for my dad (his computer went kablooey).
Wrap and mail my dad's birthday present (now over a month late) along with CD.
Back up my own hard drive.
Burn the rest of the photos to CD-ROM.
Write actual letters to the family members who don't have email about our new address.
Clean up the garage.
Organize the basement. Those towering piles of old notes are frightening!
Put up curtain rods in my office.
Make curtains for the bedroom, my office, the kitchen, and D's office.
Revise my stooopid former dissertation another freakin' time and try to get it accepted somewhere.
Resume reading and editing a friend's manuscript (so sad I'm behind on this; it's fun work, not bad work).
Write several articles I've had swirling around my head.
Get said articles out to editors. Cross fingers.
Learn to write better query letters.
Buy plant bulbs for spring and plant them.
Write the 5 questions I owe people from the 5 Questions Meme.
Make appointment with the dentist.
Go to the dentist before this one tooth does something extreme and before the COBRA expires.
Go to the doctor before the COBRA expires.
Work on my mom's birthday vest (now nearly two months late).
Work on my winter sweater (how many years now? At least I'm on the sleeves, the last part.)

I think that's enough for now!

Comments

[Phantom Scribbler]

Yowza on the winter class proposal!

As for everything else, are you me? Why are our lists so similar? And why do I know for sure that you will finish long before me?

[Rana]

'cause I don't have little wee ones to distract me? *grin*

Perhaps the similarities are because, for all intents and purposes, I am a housewife at the moment.

Or maybe it's because we're both just really really cool. *grin*

[Pilgrim/Heretic]

Yeah, I'd vote for cool for the both o'yas. My to-do list is this irritating pile of little tiny things that need to get taken care of - as a colleague of mine says, it's like being pecked to death by ducks.

[timna]

I could use your list, too. so many of the same things to do from curtains to diss revision.
are you excited about the course proposal?

[Pilgrim/Heretic]

Hey, if you all have the same list, couldn't Rana just do her stuff and have it count for everybody? We could all take turns - this week she does the list, next week Timna, next week Phantom, and so on.

[Rana]

Ooh. I like that idea. Now... who do I ship the dirty dishes to next week?

Timna - intimidated might be a better description. In my verbal proposal (which isn't the same as the formal written application I'm talking about) I set out a course that looks at a topic that, to be honest, I'm not really all that familiar with. It's in my field area in a broad way, and I've taught elements of what I want the course to contain, but I am currently feeling rather clueless about the specific ground the course will cover, the readings to assign, etc.

It doesn't help that the local library and College University's library are both small, and, in the case of CU's library, full of weird outdated stuff.

I'm going to have to make a trip to the actual university in South City, I think.

[Scrivener]

Oh cool, a course proposal. Will we be hearing more about it?

[timna]

could you use college university's library for inter-library loans? sometimes it lacks the browsing feel of a large university, but we have access far beyond our small shelf capacity.

[Rana]

I probably will need to inter-library some stuff eventually, but right now I'm dealing with a time crunch. I have to have the proposal to the Winter Term head by the end of next week.

I _would_ like to share more details about the course; I need to think about how much I can reveal, though -- the topic's pretty distinctive, and therefore hard to disguise effectively.

btw, how did that assignment go -- the one where students looked at political parties' websites?

[Rana]

Oh, if that wasn't clear -- first half responding to timna, second to Scriv.