My To-Do List

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I’m fine. I’m fine, I’m totally fine, I’m totally under control…

When I was assistant program director of the Georgia Governor’s Honors Program (in charge of instruction) and subsequently director, faculty and staff would sometimes ask me how things were going, and I would reply, “Fine — as far as you know.”

So yes, I’m fine.

…

It’s all good stuff, but it’s stuff that has to be done. So allow me to perform some TASK AVOIDANCE by listing it all here:

  • Get a press release for Every Brilliant Thing out the door

  • Create physical manifestations for the ≈400 submissions to the Brilliant List

    • Sort the submissions into approximate stages of the narrator’s life and assign appropriate number ranges. After all, a seven-year-old would not have written “Being there for the birth of my grandchild.”

    • As if any audience member would look at the hundreds of scattered pieces of paper at the end of the show and think to themselves, “Hey, these numbers don’t line up.”

  • Get the program for EBT prepared.

  • Set up all the sound cues in QLab so that I’m not fumbling with keyboard blunders in Apple Music.

  • Continue prototyping the construction for my Large Art Burn, Rage Against the Night.

    • This involves drilling holes in either end of four-foot segments of saplings, threading rope through the holes, then convincing them to form — and remain in — an arch.

  • Clean up the labyrinth so that I can host the EBT team after the final matinee in a couple of weeks. (And probably the entire house, if I know my Lovely First Wife.)

  • Do the final edit for Young Person’s Guide to Lichtenbergianism and get it to my publisher. (You might think that this would be tops on the list.)

  • And as of 8:00 a.m. today, assemble my new work cart in situ, roll it down the steep driveway to the back, and somehow summon the strength to hoist the drill press onto it.

    • Yes, I got the drill press working. Huzzah.

    • My Lovely First Wife quivered with delight when I told her that I would be able to stow all my tools/bolts/stuff in the work cart rather than on the floor by the basement door.

It could be worse. I could be faced with ramping up William Blake’s Inn even as I have to do all this. ::sigh::

Onward.

Because I know you care, here’s the fully assembled cart, with drill press (healed).

And immediately other items take its place on the list.

  • Create a mini-effigy to burn at the after-party for EBT, since #13 in the script is “Burning things.”

  • Explore both Dorico and MuseScore as replacements for Finale.

    • This can very well wait until after Every Brilliant Thing is over.

  • Figure out what to cook for supper.

  • Scritch the good and deserving Assistive Feline™.

Onward.