10.43 am

I am armed with a cup of green tea and ready to face the day. The boy left at 9 am this morning to go to work. It has taken me nearly two hours of newspaper reading, email and facebook checking, and showering to accept the fact that it is morning and I am awake.

On the to do list for today:

• Homework. About 65 pages of reading for crim pro - we're doing Miranda this week. Plus the articles for my international development and law class, which I pretty much skim through anyway. And papers/precis for the writing workshop. Ditto on the skimming.
• Webpage editing. The boalt.org server is finally cooperating. Agenda for today is getting the articles archive straightened out and putting up blurbs about the articles for the next edition.
• Brower. I didn't realize how much work was going to go into editing that thing. At this rate, I'll still be working on it next year. Which is bad, because it probably needs to be ready for the printer by December. Eeek!
• An hour of noveling. This is a must. Nathan Bransford's Stupendously Ultimate First paragraph Challenge had caused me to realize that: 1) there's no point in winning an agent critique if you don't have a manuscript ready and 2) manuscripts don't write themselves while they're stuck in the proverbial desk drawer. Although they may get up to other sorts of mischief, which is neither here nor there.
• I'm sure there's something else I'm forgetting. There usually is.