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Yesterday it was 70+ degrees. Today it is in the high 30's, misty, and gross. Bah, Texas.

On the plus side, I have tea, I have already been out to get my Sunday breakfast tacos (best routine ever), and I have pulled pork in the crock pot. Yesterday I made molasses/honey brown bread (I need loaf pans though, I am fail at shaped loaves >.>) and a somewhat experimental (for me) lentil soup that turned out amazing, with carrot, celery, onion, garlic, crushed tomatoes (8oz), canned corn, black beans, chicken stock, cumin, coriander, and chili powder. Perhaps later I will make thumbprint cookies from the recipe that shanmonster posted a few days ago.

Later (at 3:00) is also the first tag staff meeting, where we are going to divy up staff tasks. I remain excited and nervous ;p

Other than that and game tonight, I don't have any big plans for the day. I think I will go ahead and set up the colour version of my dissertation so that I can order copies of it tomorrow once I have the money. And then try and work on some writing, wooh!

Right now, I am going to watch the rest of this Japanese stop-motion version of The Dunwich Horror...

Sorta chilling, anyway, I actually have a lot of of stuff to do today!

First things first - yesterday I was officially added to the Tag Wrangling Staff for the Organization for Transformative Works. This is a volunteer commitment I have taken on and I am just in the process of learning what my duties are gong to be. It is a fairly large staff, though with a large number of new members, and I am hoping this will lead to an even distribution of work. Still, they say that it is about a five hour a week on average (meaning some weeks more, some weeks less) commitment. So that if going to take up a lot of time I have for other things, mostly writing, I suspect. I am actually hoping that having outside-of-work responsibilities again will help me keep on top of other responsibilities and generally encourage me to be a Responsible Adult.

Speaking of Being a Responsible Adult, I got the proof back of my dissertation and, as I suspected, I really need it in colour. So I am going to print three copies of the colour version once I get paid for February, and send them to - the AMMC, The National Archives of the Bahamas, and The Harbour Island Library. I will contact all the people who helped me and offer them digital colour downloads, possibly via the university library's link.

I still need to start working on seriously producing stuff from my dissertation as well, and I need a plan to do so. I can't decide if "spend a little bit of time every day" versus "take one or two days a week to dedicate a larger block of time" is going to be a better approach, but I may not be able to gauge that until I have a better handle on my Tag Staff responsibilities. I think the first staff meeting is next weekend, though, so hopefully that won't be too long. We'll see!

I have a bunch of stuff I need to do today, which I'll list here for my convenience:
make chili
laundry
make dinner (pizza and garlic fingers :3)
game

I have a bunch of things that I should do today:
look through staff orientation information and make sure I'm getting everything set up the way I need to
(I'm actually trying not to get distracted by that atm)

Things I would like to do today:
work on my Diablotin Space AU
work on my knitting
make a post about influential books

Things I would like to do In General That I May Do Today:
make a post/list breaking down things I have that are actual responsibilities versus goals I have set myself
work on my LARP for Webercon (this needs doing but it not essential at this point)

I should be able to do all of these things! I do have another post to make first though...