Monday, December 29, 2008

deadlines

"I love deadlines.  I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."  -Douglas Adams

Days left of Christmas break:  6
Days left before I meet with my professor:  3 1/2
Pages to be written before meeting with prof:  20
Novels to be graded before next Monday:  11
Short stories to be graded before next Monday:  85
Pages of manuscript to be revised:  35
Games of Catan to be won:  3 (completed)

Christmas break always goes by too quickly.  Sigh.  

5 comments:

sraasch said...

You have to grade 11 novels? Sheesh.

Deadlines do make a very nice sound though. Kind of like an airplane flying too low over train.

Jill Wheeler said...

Yeah, my kids did NaNoWriMo. I'll just read them and give them general comments. Most of them didn't make it to 50k. I'm not going to go through and mark every grammatical mistake. But I'll have to on those short stories. :P

Dan said...

Every blog should have at least one quote from Douglas Adams. I've decided to make this a new law.

Good luck with the deadlines...whatever you do, don't look 'em in the eye. They consider that a sign of aggression.

Gottawrite Girl said...

That's very cool that you guided them through Nano! What a loving action...

And I second, hoorah for Adams!

Renee Collins said...

Ha! I love that opening quote. Story of my life.

Good luck with your deadlines! It always seems like Christmas break is going to be so long, with so much free time, and then before you know it, it's over.