a firm deadline

My visa has been affixed to my passport, and is en route to me.

Main travel tickets have been purchased. I fly from Sydney to San Francisco on Thursday 18 June. This means that I *must* have the thesis done before then! I will need someone willing to drive me to June Crown from the Bay area--any takers, or shall I ask on SCA-West? I might need crash space on Thursday evening--I've given my step-sister, who recently moved to SF first refusal on my company that evening, but haven't heard back yet.

I will be doing a road-trip with a friend after Crown, getting me to Seattle by 26 June, where my sisters and I will all be at the same place, at the same time for the first time since my step-dad died, over five years ago. It will be different--back then two of them were contemplating starting families, and now they each have two children...

I will be flying from Chicago to Milan leaving on 6 July, but I still need to arrange travel to Chicago. I will probably head that way early enough to visit with family in Wisconsin before I go (with a potential stop in Colorado to see friends there), but there is a slight temptation to stay on the west coast and attend An Tir-West War instead.

I arrive in Milan in the morning on 8 July. Give me a few days to get settled, but after that, friends are encouraged to come visit, I may not wind up with luxury accommodation, but I'm always happy to provide at least floor space...

But, before any of that I need to:

* finish the additions/corrections to Chapter six my advisor suggested.
* ditto for chapters 1-4
* get the figures for chapters 2-4 camera ready
* book flight from Tassie to Sydney
* print the thesis & get it bound
* unpack my boxes which have been in storage since December, get clovis_t's stuff out (he will help with that part, but I so want to be involved), and repack the boxes with a detailed inventory, including value of each item
* decide when/where all to visit & book flight to Chicago (+/- additional stops?)
* get boxes to a shipping company & on their way to Italy
* cut out sewing projects to take on the plane with me--make certain that they won't need to be touched by scissors again till I arrive.
* pack luggage
* ship by air anything that was too important in the short term to send by boat, but that I don't have room to take with me

oh, and some sleep would be nice, too. I got almost three hours last night before getting back up to return to work. Got sleepy and curled up in bed for a nap, only to have an important text message come through. After replying to it, and to the two follow-up messages I gave up and returned to work, but it may well be time to try for another nap, because my brain is going fuzzy...

a firm deadline

My visa has been affixed to my passport, and is en route to me.

Main travel tickets have been purchased. I fly from Sydney to San Francisco on Thursday 18 June. This means that I *must* have the thesis done before then! I will need someone willing to drive me to June Crown from the Bay area--any takers, or shall I ask on SCA-West? I might need crash space on Thursday evening--I've given my step-sister, who recently moved to SF first refusal on my company that evening, but haven't heard back yet.

I will be doing a road-trip with a friend after Crown, getting me to Seattle by 26 June, where my sisters and I will all be at the same place, at the same time for the first time since my step-dad died, over five years ago. It will be different--back then two of them were contemplating starting families, and now they each have two children...

I will be flying from Chicago to Milan leaving on 6 July, but I still need to arrange travel to Chicago. I will probably head that way early enough to visit with family in Wisconsin before I go (with a potential stop in Colorado to see friends there), but there is a slight temptation to stay on the west coast and attend An Tir-West War instead.

I arrive in Milan in the morning on 8 July. Give me a few days to get settled, but after that, friends are encouraged to come visit, I may not wind up with luxury accommodation, but I'm always happy to provide at least floor space...

But, before any of that I need to:

* finish the additions/corrections to Chapter six my advisor suggested.
* ditto for chapters 1-4
* get the figures for chapters 2-4 camera ready
* book flight from Tassie to Sydney
* print the thesis & get it bound
* unpack my boxes which have been in storage since December, get clovis_t's stuff out (he will help with that part, but I so want to be involved), and repack the boxes with a detailed inventory, including value of each item
* decide when/where all to visit & book flight to Chicago (+/- additional stops?)
* get boxes to a shipping company & on their way to Italy
* cut out sewing projects to take on the plane with me--make certain that they won't need to be touched by scissors again till I arrive.
* pack luggage
* ship by air anything that was too important in the short term to send by boat, but that I don't have room to take with me

oh, and some sleep would be nice, too. I got almost three hours last night before getting back up to return to work. Got sleepy and curled up in bed for a nap, only to have an important text message come through. After replying to it, and to the two follow-up messages I gave up and returned to work, but it may well be time to try for another nap, because my brain is going fuzzy...