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Weekend to-do list:

1. Taxes
2. Passover shopping
3. Decide whether to go to PCA/ACA conference next week
4. remix_redux story
5. Write up "Twelfth Night" review
6. Revamp résumé for specific position
7. Finish season one of SGA
8. Write first few crack_van recs

Well, halfway there; that's not bad.

So, yes, re: item 8, I'll be "driving" the crack_van in April for House. That's a multifandom fanfic recommendation site, for those of you who aren't familiar with it. I've just finished the first three—it's harder than I expected!—which leaves about, oh, nine or ten to go. Hoo boy. First one will go up tomorrow; the rest get sprinkled throughout the month.

Speaking of recs and compliments and such, thank you so much, fallen_arazil and jadesfire2808, for your kind words today! What nice sentiments to wake up to.

Re: item 3, I've been feeling desperately unstimulated these past few weeks (with a few notable exceptions, almost all LJ- and LJ-people related)—missing academic and otherwise intellectual environments, realizing how long it's been since I had the opportunity to write a research or conference paper, losing what little tolerance I usually have for people's stupidity, and generally fearing for my sanity and my future. Completely unable to concentrate on work for all this, Friday morning I checked out the incomprehensibly large PCA/ACA conference program to skim the list of presentations and see whether there were enough exciting papers/panels to warrant taking three days off next week to attend. Turned out there weren't, somehow. However, just reading all those titles and imagining what some of the papers would cover did wonders for recharging my brain, and I did come across a few I'd really like to read, so I wrote to several presenters asking if they'd mind sharing a copy. Today I heard back from a woman presenting on language play in House who has quite amiably agreed to send me a copy afterwards (and she knew who I was, which was pleasantly startling), so that should be fun. Stay tuned for details.

Oh and also, when I dropped my mom and her boyfriend off at the airport last night, she gave me the spare set of keys to her house and told me to stay over there as often as I like while they're away. That way she gets the mail taken in and a house that isn't dark for ten days straight, and I get some alone time. I think I may just take her up on the offer once all the Passover prep is over. (We're doing the first-night Seder tomorrow, for some reason.)

Off to complete item 7 now. One two-part episode to go....