In the last few days, I have finished my story for workshop, revised a chapter of my thesis, and did another revision of a story I'm working on in conference. Plus, I got my act together and got a story ready to send to a contest, and made inquiries to another place I can get my stuff published. I'm changing tactics on the publishing thing: I don't care how prestigious or how much money a journal pays, if I have a submission that fits their qualifications and they seem legitimate, I'm sending it in. You gotta start somewhere. There are pretty big prizes that look only at small press publications, and some big publications that routinely scout smaller publications for good pieces, so it's not like if I send a good piece to a small place, no one will ever see it.

Of course, my room's still a pit, and I'm drowning in pop cans that badly need recycling, but I've got priorities.