Things my car has shlepped in the past twenty-four hours:

* a pan of creamed corn, a pan of salad, and a box full of oranges, apples, donuts, and sausage-biscuit packs (for Room in the Inn)

* a bucket full of "Freedom" roses and gypsum (for tomorrow's flowers at church)

Things currently eluding me:

* time and clutter management
* volumes 4 through 7 of the French edition of FAKE
* a high G
* the next sentence of the fic I'm currently wrestling with

Contributor's copies I received in this week's mail:

* Books and Beyond: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of New American Reading (I wrote the entries on biography, children's literature, romance novels, and self-help)
* Big Sky, Big Hair: the Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar's First Decade. The editors chose to include two of my poems in it.

Happy things:

* the weather today. 57 F of sunny perfection.
* trying a deep-fried brownie at Sambuca. Very interesting texture, that.
* being treated to a perfectly tossed salad and a "Radius Maximus" (Hendricks, pomegranate juice, lime juice, and lavendar syrup) at Radius 10 (one of my favorite restaurants in Nashville, and the general manager's a fantastic woman who's also active at First UU)
* gonna make inroads on the in-boxes, in a minute
* comfy sweaters and good coffee