to-do lists up the wazoo

Alrighty then, it is morning, I need caffeine, and I think that I have a bajillion things I need to do --- on three or four different lists. Last week was not my own, for reasons that may be revealed later, but I really really need to get back on top of things. You probably don't want to read this post; I'm going to blog my to-do lists like Earnest English used to do when she plowed through her dissertation so successfully.

Ok: I need breakfast and coffee, I also have no groceries, I need to clean my apt esp the Kitchen of Filth (otherwise known as the Pit of Despair and Dishes), I need to do laundry, I need to return (possibly copy and return) two overdue ILLs, I need to write a massive project that is immanently due, I need to email two profs, I need to fix a couple grading snafus from summer, and, of course, make progress on my job materials. So, to rearrange:

• breakfast at neighborhood coffee shop and
  
• plow through massive project (at least figure out where I was when I left off),

(this is what I hate about writing --- I wrote on it, does that mean I can cross it off? I didn’t “finish” or come to a stopping point. Sigh.)

• then groceries once I'm too jittery to write
• dump off ILLs at school while I'm in the car
• then throw some laundry in and
• clean at least the kitchen

(I finished pile of dishes of despair and cleaned my bedroom. The kitchen still is disgusting, though.)

• fix grade problem
• email my committee

I hope I make it through all those. The market will have to wait another day. Now, off to whiz through all my work with speed and productiveness!

Update: (and I balanced my checkbook and picked up drycleaning, which has been ready for two weeks now. Go me!)

Now I will cook something delicious. I may also need a manicure to counteract the nastiness of a mountain of dishes.