My good friend angeladegroot reminded me that I need to set some goals. Lucky for me I have Angela to boss me around. With her continued whip weilding encouragement, I might actually get some submissions out in the world this week ( Read more... )

1. Finish writing and formatting JASNA newsletter.
2. Finish income taxes.

Yeah, that's a short list. Also, impossible. As in, even were I to apply myself diligently to either task, it's not 100% realistic to expect to be able to cross either one completely off the list.

My icon today features J.J. Feild as Henry Tilney in Northanger Abbey, but ( Read more... )

A Tuesday list:

1. Post review of More Than Friends: Poems from Him and Her by Sara Holbrook and Allan Wolf over at Guys Lit Wire2. Take S to school late. (We tried a full day yesterday, but she bonked after 5 classes - one of which was lunch ( Read more... )

I suppose I could label this post "listlessness" as well, given that I've not actually been around here much lately. I'd love to tell you it's because I've been leading an exciting and fabulous life, but that's not quite the case. The thing is, I haven't quite figured out what to blog about in the past few days. I've got a few fabulous books to ( Read more... )

Tonight

1. Fold five loads of laundry. Yes, really.
2. Finish composing a post for Guys Lit Wire to be posted next Tuesday.
3. Type up my notes from my interview of Nikki Giovanni and her editor, Laura Godwin, last week so that I can write a post for I.N.K.: Interesting Nonfiction for Kids to be posted next Wednesday ( Read more... )

I believe I feel a bout of listing coming on. Not listing to the side, but a major list-writing exercise ( Read more... )