Thursday, 5/8

Why yes, I AM insane. Thanks for asking.

Before sitting down to type this I wanted to make sure I didn't forget anything that I need to take care of in the next few days. I have something coming up tonight (which I'll mention in a second) and just wanted to get a little organized because, believe it or not, I DO try to be organized.

Not that you could tell by the piles of notes and random thoughts scattered everywhere around my kitchen, but I try.

Anyway, by the end of this upcoming weekend I have to...

-Finish a newspaper article that runs right before Memorial Day

-Start a newspaper article that runs a week after that.

-Write my TV piece for this week

-Write a TV piece for Memorial Day that I'll tape on Monday, because we're going to visit Loraine's dad over the holiday, and...

-Wrap up writing on my “Wild Wild West” tour for next month so I can start writing & researching my “Harpy Hour” tour for July.

I think I'm gonna go sit in a corner and cry for a few seconds. After, of course, I finish writing THIS.

Sigh.

I mean, I like writing. I really do. It comes naturally to me and, I'm hoping, I don't suck at it. But when I look at that list of projects with a deadline coming up, knowing very well that I have a bunch more stuff to write after these are done, makes me wonder if I'll have a shred of sanity left whenever I'm finally finished..

Assuming, of course, I actually had any sanity to begin with.

So I suppose I should get cracking, but not before I tell you about that thing coming up tonight. The History Center is holding their annual cemetery tour at Park Cemetery, this one marking the 80^th anniversary of VE today (which is, indeed, today) by talking about WWII vets buried there. Since they know of Loraine's work on those who died in the war, we've been asked to present on three of them, which means Loraine will be talking about Leo Robinson and the co-author of her first book, Elwood Norr, while I get to chat about by birthday buddy, Alvar Liimatainen. If you're curious, it gets underway at 6.

And, believe it or not, I didn't have to write a thing for this one. It's a miracle, I tell ya.

8-)

(jim@wmqt.com)