You might well note that previous lists… are implausible. You would be right to do so. Even if lemon-soaped paper napkins become available again before the Nutrimatic Cup finally hits the ground, life is not going to be proceeding according to “normal” for a very long time. Thus:
- Cancel travel for the next year
- Consider sending gift hampers of tasty foods to family for the holidays
- Zoom-a-Zoom-a-Zoom-a-Zoom!
- Log work hours
- Write the damn Proceedings already
- Get the Zone 8 plants in the house
- Persist
Oh, let us look for a moment at the latest list of THINGS
- Reschedule hotel for next year
- Reschedule air travel for next year
- Finish online course design and implementation
- Order cat food
- Order more people food
- Printer ink
- Locate sources of drafts and insulate those
- Start new composting area(s)
- Consider ordering truckload of loam
- Consider gravel, sand, and bricks for pathway
- Carve out new section of lawn into shape for more raised beds
- Plant corn and beans in existing beds
- Plant out the basil
Most of the last list actually got done. Newer new list!
- Haircut
- Cat food
- Laundry
- Remind chorus that choral outfits are generally heteronormative and we aren’t going to change that in two meetings
- Dash around finding small needful things
- Find the airline-approved bottle of mint oil
- Unpack from polymer event
- Consider whether to propose conference presentation(s)
- Acquire food, paper products, cleaning supplies
- Trim back grape vines
- Should something be made from the grape vines?
- Moth patrol
- Laundry
- Consider new garden bed options, and whether to create area for new raspberry canes
- Consider what will be dinner
- Comb the staircase
- Exhort chorus
Rethorykal Questions 
Ah, so the Rhet has succumbed to blog pressure, eh? (Lovely header, by the way.) Well, you’ve never been in lack o’ stories. I hope you find it enjoyable and rewarding. 🙂
-Jenn
I notice that you lived in Pittsburgh long enough to drop the “to be” verb from your vocabulary, one of my pet peeves…
[Snicker] I wondered if anyone would notice that. I don’t actually talk that way, any more than I speak LOL in proper conversation. But sometimes my brain likes the alternate styles:
Brain: “Can has dialect here?”
Me: “_May_ I has dialect here.”
Brain: “May has, Kthx?”
Me: “We need to go read Faulkner now….”
We all pick our battles, especially as the semester will be starting soon.