I just finished reading Theodora Goss' In the Forest of Forgetting and really really enjoyed it - there were stories that quite impressed the heck out of me - and I thought I would write about that exact all the things I need to be thinking about keep pushing thoughts of everything else out of my head. So I decided to make a list of what needs to be done and perhaps after that is done I'll be able to write about something else.

1. I printed out Map and am reading it to make sure the chapters are in the order I want (I have four chapters to fit in) and also to make sure my voice is clear from start to finish. (I know I wavered at a few points and need to fix those.) I realized while glancing through it during printing that a chapter I have been working on really fits into an existing chapter which is good because I was a bit wobbly on this one and now feel much better about it.

2. Once done going over the book I can finish the last chapter which is half done. That will be it then! I really want the book to be on its way to my agent by the middle of the month so I can concentrate on other things for awhile and not be so focused on Alaska aviation for at least a week or two. (Because then it needs to be a return to Book 1 and adding to it a few chapters I thought of while writing this book that would fit in the fictionalized accounting better.)

3. I have a review of two mysteries to get done for the next issue of Eclectica. Those need to be written tomorrow.

4. I need to write my review of Lonely Werewolf Girl to finish off my July Bookslut column.

5. I have a stack of books to be reviewed - I've actually stopped reading books for review until I get these done. There are books for the August and September columns and also for the August political books feature. There are also two books for Voices of NOLA that I reviewed for Booklist and want to write more about over there. Altogether there's a big pile of all kinds of good reading; I'm looking forward to writing about them.

6. I have Gods of Manhattan waiting for a post here because I'm still bothered by that book and I need to explain why. That will hopefully happen this week also so I can move that book out of the way.

7. Guys Lit Wire is coming along so well - so incredibly well - that I kind of feel like pinching myself. Now that we have a week of solid posts up I need to start planning who to contact and let know about it. I want to contact publishers who have books reviewed on the site so they can see how it looks and what we are trying to do. The ultimate goal is to get the site's existence out there to teenage boys though, and that is something I need to put some time towards. So that is all the big project for June.

8. And then there is some personal stuff. I have about 100 pictures of my grandparents and great grandparents that I discovered at my aunt's house in February and have promised to scan in and burn onto CDs for various cousins, etc. There are some mystery negatives I found that need to be developed (the oldest looks to be from the 1930s) and I have quite a few pictures on the digital camera that need to be printed out and sent to various family members like my grandfather and my husband's grandmother and all the parents, etc. (These would be pictures of my son.) This is time consuming stuff that will bury me if I don't stay on top of it so this is the big other June project.

And that - I think - is it for now. The book has slowed me down on everything but I know I'm close to having it in the shape I've been aiming for and that is a wonderful feeling. Now I just can't stop. Hopefully no one else will get sick in the near future (this month has been a nightmare that way) and there is no company on schedule until August. I can get all this done in June and then July - well July is new stuff! Yea!