It's time for a new list.

[truepenny]

I'm a list-maker. And my working life is complicated enough that the lists help.

Academic (update of this list--call it v1.1)

1. Read Brian Morris and Roma Gill's introduction to Atheist and see if they say anything profound and stunning.
   
2. Write Changeling section.
   
3. Reread Revengers.
   
4. Finish Revengers section.
   
5. Email godlike committee member again if he hasn't gotten back to me.
   
6. Lit search for crit. on 2nd Maiden.
   
7. Read articles on 2nd Maiden.
   
8. Integrate quotes.
   
9. Write a conclusion.

Fiction

1. Page proofs for novella in Alchemy 2.
   
2. Lob out 2 turnips.
   
3. Finish necklace story.
   
4. DL
   
5. Emperor
   
6. Byzantium

Well, I can't say I don't keep busy.

Comments

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't say I don't keep busy.

Nope!

Ummm, was going to write something witty and amusing, but papers on my desk are sucking out my brain.

Pretend I said something witty, and, umm, move along, nothing to see here.

Page proofs! Yay!

More turnips! Yay!

[heresluck]

And hey, if you want a break from your own page proofs, you can double-check mine. *g* We can even swap, if you'd like.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that might be very clever of us. Like, frighteningly clever.

[heresluck]

Not as frightening as those fennec ears, though.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Hey! Don't diss the fennec!

[heresluck]

You know I love that fennec, but come on. Those parasails ears!

My father told this story

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

about my grandmother, though knowing my Dad it's entirely possible he made it up or nabbed it from someone else (someone else's grandmother?).

Anyway, he says Grandma was always making lists. She made lists to organize everything. She'd make a list, and then she'd cross an item off almost immediately.

Grandpa finally asked what she was crossing off.

"Oh," she says, "the first thing on the list is always 'Make a list of things to do'. Then I cross it off when I've made a list. That way I've got immediate progress."

Re: My father told this story

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

That sounds frighteningly like something I would do.

And it is true that starting the list with something easy is a great morale booster. Even a spurious sense of accomplishment is better than nothing.

Purposes served by lists

[oursin.livejournal.com]

This discussion has made me think about lists (http://www.livejournal.com/users/oursin/7096.html?mode=reply) and the pleasures of checking things off them: and whether this is a form of displacement activity. This may not be a universal truth, but it reflects one purpose lists serve for me.

Re: My father told this story

[girldetective.livejournal.com]

I've been known to include on lists things I've already completed, just so I can have something to cross off right away. And hello, by the way - I friended you today because your journal seems interesting. I found it because you're also a Kelly Link fan. Cheers!