It is Sunday, it is 7.30, I am in the library. I have been here since 11.00, delayed getting here by an hour because I thought I’d lost a book I needed (I hadn’t and it turns out I didn’t).

So, let’s look at the to-do list based on 26 January  2015:

• a paper to write for the Sideways in Time conference — next weekend Sunday
• a keynote to write for the SF postgrad conference
• a book to read for review
• a book proposal to finish — I’ve had some ideas
• a conference paper to convert to an article
• a secondary bibliography to annotate — not started
• two chapters to write for companions — lots of ideas for one, no further than Christmas for the other
• an overdue biographical piece to write — Tuesday afternoon, I hope
• an overdue survey chapter
• an article that’s been bounced from a special issue but has been taken up and needs another thousand words adding
• a book manuscript to rescue — I printed out chapter one…
• a  submitted chapter that I’ve heard nothing back on
• several reference book entries that are missing in action
• a submitted chapter that may well need a proofread
• *new*: an appreciation of Pratchett

Hmmm. Let’s see what I can do for March 31st. I have written and published an obituary and written something like three lectures a week.