To-Do List – Long Pauses

Pack for tomorrow’s flight to Boulder (iPod, digital camera, cell phone, laptop, projector, books, and . . . oh yeah, clothes)
Come up with something at least mildly interesting to say at the conference
Ignore that pretty new copy of Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America that is sitting on your desk until after you finish DeLillo’s Americana
Write the rest of those f—— TIFF responses
Stop putting your dissertation at the bottom of your To-Do list