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15 November 2006
Today's To Do List→[More:]1. Go to the bank
2. Go to the laundromat
3. Go to the gym
4. Go to the grocery store
5. Take new vitamins
1. Finish work
2. Go Home
3. Drink beer
4. (not listen to music while websurfing because my reciever (which is jacked into my soundcard) seems to have shit the bed))
1. Remember to switch on the heating so I don't freeze when I get out of the shower.
2. Check my wardrobe to make sure I have something decent to wear for the Poshest MeCha Meetup Ever on Friday
3. Cook my dinner (sausages)
4. Make sure I remember either to watch or set the video for 30 Days (I lurrrve Morgan Spurlock)
5. Clip the cats' nails.
1. Call Kayaker Kris about location of tomorrow night's party.
2. Call vet again, this time circumventing his idiot receptionist who doesn't understand that when I say I want to talk to the doctor about the "details of the procedure" I'm not asking how much it costs.
3. Call Rebecca to reschedule.
4. Return videos. cmonkey did this for me.
5. Call my uncle Dave.
6. Get birthday presents
7. Call KELLY.
8. Ovulate.
1. Eat leftover cake
2. Go to grocery for certain items
3. Put on pajamas
4. Put on some heavy metal
5. Bake snickerdoodles using aforementioned items
6. Watch the Two Towers while reading an annotated version of LotR
7. Poop
8. Sleep
1. Mail friend's very overdue birthday present
2. Finish re-writing paper
3. Label testtubes for big experiment tomorrow
4. Order Thanksgiving food
5. Buy avocados for massive guacamole making mission on Friday
6. Make budget for next two weeks
1. Sit through boring, painful conference call for a job that's laid me off.
2. Develop teaching guide for group presentation for class tonight.
3. Practice group presentation for class tonight.
4. Develop outline for other group presentation for my other class.
5. Shower. Eventually.
6. Uncover clothes that are clean enough to wear to class.
7. Eat kale and white bean soup for lunch!
8. Five hours of class, during which we get to plan my other other group presentation for my other other class, and during which I get to do group presentation #1 for my first class.
9. Try not to fall asleep, die, or kill anyone.
I should also call my various healthcare providers and see if I can sneak in appointments while I have insurance, but I've been putting that off for days already.
Send fax about horrible extortianate designer to lawyer.
Make a dent in the mess in my front hall
Buy card and something to encase jonmc and pips' wedding gift that finally arrived.
Wash towels that a mouse got into.
Buy lock for backpack because the airlines keep lowering their weight limit and I'll need enough books for a month.
Try to get to the gym.
Contemplate how Thanksgiving will be played out since it'll be two days after the surgery and I don't want anything to do with chupahija.
Dig up proxy for condo board elections which will most likely be fraudulent again.
(Yay, this thread just made me call my doctor and dentist! I will be cavity- and disease-free for the new year! Not that I'm cavity- and disease-riddled just now or anything. I hope.)
1. Interview in 10 minutes with state department head who actually makes me schedule phone calls
2. Return call to gruff woman who doesn't seem to want to talk to me; expect that she won't answer
3. Try to get other guy on the phone
4. Send email to editor telling her that people still haven't returned my calls and that 3 of the 4 articles I'm supposed to be writing (which were a single article when I agreed to do them) won't be done today
5. Ice the back
1. Write incident report describing problem library patron; write letter banning said patron from the library; send copies of 1 and 2 downtown, and file copies locally.
2. Make up a display of holiday-themed books.
3. Make up a display related to the Essence bestseller list.
4. Make up schedules for my various employees.
5. Decide whether to take problematic-but-improving employee off probation; discuss said decision w/my boss; possibly discuss said decision w/said employee.
6. Clean off my desk, including watering my plants and taking this stack of Linux books home.
7. Decide which movies I'll show for the rest of this month; make a flyer to promote upcoming movies; print a jillion copies; send 'em to the other branches.
8. Pop some popcorn; show Barbershop this evening.
1) Get through next 3.5 hours then go home for a lovely 4 day weekend (which I damn well earned after working something like 21 of the last 23 days).
2) Watch the rest of Vic Reeves Big Night Out Series 2.
3) Watch both series of The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
4) Watch Bang Bang it's Reeves and Mortimer.
5) Watch Catterick (featuring Reeves and Mortimer).
6) Ponder why I don't seem to be getting any reading done these days.
1. Work.
2. Have lunch with boyfriend.
3. More work.
4. Buy avocados for Saturday's Guac-off (guacamole-competition party at my friend Alex's)
5. Drink beer with boyfriend.
1. Finish designing postcard
2. Design smaller versione for envelopes
3. Design ad due tomorrow.
4. Write membership renewal letter to be enclosed in envelopes.
5. Finish designing poster.
6. Write all magazine text, put on disc.
7. Take disc to friend who has quark, design magazine.
8. Write up list of contacts for brother.
9. Go home & deal with seriously fucking up teenage son.
10. Make dinner, serve dinner, clean up dinner, deal with disastrous mess in house caused by puppy and so on and so forth.
11. Sleep for 7 hours, wake up and do it all over again tomorrow.
12. Wonder whether I'm having a heart attack or if it's just stress & hormones. . .
1: Try and think of more ideas to help my brother write an article on "top 10 web sites or web innovations that might be big next year"
2: Cook big bowl of steamed organic veggies
3: Research sugar gliders
4: Watch TV
5: Make vague effort to tidy flat
6: Go to bed at a sensible time for once
What will happen:
1. Finish surfing Metachat
2. Clean cat box
3. Shower
4. Make lunch, read while eating lunch
5. Surf Metafilter
6. Make & eat dinner
7. Go to bed to sleep, perchance, to dream
What might happen:
1. Nap
2. Watch movie(s)
What should happen but prolly won't:
1. Walk Kaylee to the mailbox
2. Empty the last three boxes
3. Organize my office (to be done once the boxes are unpacked)
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