So. Very. Behind. In. Everything.

I have a TON of grading to do still. I didn't get very much done on that front this weekend because we had a lovely guest at our house on Friday and we ended up unwrapping my copy of Star Trek and introducing her to that specific brand of crazyawesome, and on Saturday, Rae and I took the little boy she used to nanny for to the LA Zoo and we got to see snow leopard cubs playing with their mom, a male lion trying to mate with a very uninterested female, and a creature called a coati that came right up to the bars because he was very interested in my glazed almonds. I think his nose was practically prehensile.  There was also the most enormous eagle I've ever seen in my life--it was a Stellar's Sea Eagle that's native to Russia, and its head probably would have come up to my hip if it was standing next to me.  I'm so glad we went... every time we go, I am fascinated all over again by the infinite diversity of nature.

I also have NaNo and the fandom challenge I'm participating in... I'm behind in both of those, too, which is my own fault for not working on them when I had the time and watching all of season 3 of Burn Notice again over the past few days.  Still, I haven't been completely unproductive this weekend...

Today, in order to catch up with everything I:

Did the dishes so we could start the week off clean.

Wrote 3,000 words of my NaNo novel, culminating in a very long visit from the exposition fairy. I'm now only 6,667 words behind... and I'll be more behind to tomorrow, but I made a big dent today, and I'm less behind than I would be if I hadn't done anything at all.

Posted the first five parts of my Wolf's Head fic on the Big Bang Hood site.  I'm SO embarrassed that I'm the last one left to post, and formatting takes me forever.  Copy/pasting from Microsoft Word doesn't work so well sometimes.  My paragraphs are inconsistently indented, and sometimes weird symbols show up when I actually post.  So, I spent the afternoon going through and making final corrections to the chapter, copy-pasting into notepad to clear Word's weird formatting crap, going back and manually making sure that all the paragraphs are the same and have space between them for easier web reading, and manually inputting the italics and previous and next chapter html.  There has to be a better way to do this... I just don't happen to know what it is. I've got some ideas I'm going to try tomorrow that will hopefully speed things up.

Coming up, I've got more students essays that are going to be turned in, Thanksgiving at my parents', at least Saturday of LosCon, the end of Nano, and I can't even begin to think beyond that. *gasps for breath*