Coming at you live from Deadline Central

This week has been a rush of many different things, all converging at once in a mix of deadlines and To Do lists. In an attempt to take stock of the situation, here is where I am at:

1. Various sundry personal banking issues concerning the changing of banks have been dealt with. Partly complicated by auto deposit to the old bank which must be cleared prior to closing of that account. So tiresome to have monies in two different places (three if you count the business accounts).

2. Business cards ordered. This was terribly overdue as I missed them sorely at ALA and don't want to make the same mistake at PNBA and the AK History Conference. They are due in the week before I leave.

3. Flight arrangements made to Juneau; ferry arrangements to Haines set; hotel in order, registration paid for the conference; PNBA arrangements sorted as well. I am in Haines the end of the month, Portland the beginning of the next. My husband will be holding down the fort and dealing with boy and dogs and various sundry madness without me.

4. The boy's birthday is the week after PNBA. I realized yesterday that everything for that needs to be worked out posthaste.

5. Articles loaded for the Bush Pilot blog at Alaska Dispatch -- four articles in the queue now, one more I have all the notes for and needs to be written in the next couple of days. Follow-up email sent on another that has been long neglected. I have several stories here to work on and I need to get them done and in before Haines.

6. I'm doing a presentation in Haines. Don't ask me if I'm ready to go with that yet.

7. There is a September 15th due date for submissions to a site that I'm prepping an essay for. I think it's going to be good and i want to get it in. September 15th is really really soon.

8. I've got editing due for a Shorefast Editions project. Other people are waiting on me. Need to get that cranking. Now. (This the priority for tomorrow. I wanted it in last night.)

9. I'm reading WOKEN GODS by Gwenda Bond for my December column (great) and COLDEST GIRL IN COLDTOWN by Holly Black for my October column maybe (also great but if I can't get it read & reviewed in time I'll bump it to the December column). AMONG WOLVES for Booklist (turning this one in next week) and OWNING THE EARTH due by the 17th. (After that just one Booklist review due and that is not until early October so I'll likely bring it on the plane and write the review then.)

10. I've got to get my November column sorted out. Only one review is written for it and it's no easy cake column. It's all nonfiction, serious works (amazing works!) and I want to do them justice. I have to turn it in by October 25th. This one concerns me a lot right now.

11. Man -- this list is not making me feel better.

12. Appointments for the boy next week (doctor) and the week after (dentist). Haircuts need to happen in there for everybody in this house. I missed a nephew's birthday - that gift needs to be packaged tomorrow. (Fortunately he is only 1, so he won't notice.)

13. I did laundry today. That's something.

14. I renewed the domain name for our company (Moro Aircraft Leasing), I scanned and sent an article I promised a month ago. Done and done. Paid bills, refilled prescriptions.

15. Organization is key, but it also shows you how much more you need to do then you thought you had to do. Once it's all listed out there -- boy howdy, that's a lot.

16. New issue of Bookslut is up, with a column by me that includes some very good books. Check them out.

17. More later. Plus a Alaska-y tweets from @shorefastbooks by me. I can tweet from two places at once. It's my superpower. *grin*