What's on your "to-do" list for tomorrow?

Repair a chainsaw and then various garden work.

My plans are

Watch Formula 1 qualifying
Test drive a few cars
Do the grocery shopping
Put away said shopping
Vacuum the car
Relax

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Pegs Shop to CTB.

Cool, I'm from down that way. Never say it advertised. Good luck in it

I put her to bed so she doesn't feckin die on me!!

She falls asleep sitting up with her neck at a 90 degree angle.I keep lifting her head up and seconds later it flops down again onto her boobs!!

Walk the dog
Mow the lawn
Prepare a picnic
Have said picnic with my kid
Long walk in the countryside
Drive home
Dinner
Movie with wine
Bed

I'm calling over to 'Aongus Von Bismarck' to watch daytime TV, play Xbox, and get zonked on weed with the lads.

We'll probably watch that Bob Marley documentary again. Aongus' favourite bit, he quotes it all the time and knows it off-by-heart, is this bit:

Wake up hopefully at seven. Go to college. Six hour kitchen class.. try make it to credit union. Get first semester exam results. Plan and make dinner. Go out with college friends if there's anything to celebrate =D

This thread seems like a good excuse to have a bit of a vent.

This Thursday I have an interview for the job I have spent my whole adult life dreaming of. It's for a tenure track job as a professor of Irish literature in a US university. A job like this comes up, on average, once every five years or so, and has about 200 or so applicants. Every single applicant would be a PhD with a good track record of publications and teaching. I had an initial interview at the start of the month (maybe 10 people get this) and, against the odds, I've been asked to make a visit to the campus (maybe 3 people get this). An opportunity like this, in other words, comes up once in a lifetime, if you are lucky. The interview is Thursday.

So I've spent the last three days preparing material for a teaching demonstration and for a talk to the department about my scholarship and what makes it significant to the field. Tomorrow (and this is where I'm on topic) though, I have to teach five hours of classes in composition in my current job, and prepare lesson plans for the following day for literature classes. But I also need to cut about another 2000 words from my talk, and prepare answers for every conceivable question I could be asked by a platoon of college deans, professors, lecturers, and graduate students.

And every time I feel tired, I have to remind myself that this may be my last chance to get the job of my dreams, that if I don't grasp this chance, everything that follows for the rest of my days will be tinged with the regret that I left this opportunity behind.

I'll practice delivering the talk and the teaching demonstration about ten or fifteen times each, if I get a chance to do so. And when I go to bed, exhausted, there's a good chance I'll wake up every half hour or so with a million thoughts in my head about what I should change in the talk, what questions might come up in the interviews (they will last from 8 in the morning until 6 in the evening, with the talk and teaching squeezed in in between), how I might best approach the class, and how hard it will be to pick myself up off the floor if it goes wrong and I don't get the job.

I may also have a **** at some stage. You have to treat yourself.