To do lists

Somehow, this blog turned into a place to post to-do lists. I don't want it only to be that, but one of the goals I had for this blog was to give a sense of what it's really like to be a writing professor. To do lists give one lens, for sure. And, as I'm pretty busy lately, they're a quick lens. So here we are, my to do lists through the weekend.
(Striking-through as I go through the weekend)

• Respond to a final project proposal
• Meet with a graduate advisee
• Meet with an undergraduate student 
• Respond to my Expos 3 students' prospectuses (prospecti? "Precis" would work, but I don't like that word. I just don't like the look or the sound of it. It's irrational, I know. I've made peace with that. I also don't like "pods." In truth, I have a whole list of words I don't like. But I digress.)
• Put together my PAC narrative (four pages, single spaced. It's a process we go through every year to determine merit raises -- that's probably the easiest way to explain it).
• Fill out the PAC faculty activity form
• Put together supporting materials for PAC (Okay, so it turns out I didn't have to do this b/c I had to do it for reappointment, but I'm crossing it out instead of erasing it b/c it makes me feel better)
• Read and score an instructors' students PEP submissions (it's our midterm portfolio system. I'm not going to explain it all here, but everyone reads someone else's students' essays and scores them. This term, I'm reading two sets)
• Read and score my own students' PEP submissions (the primary instructor scores them, too, and as my students have revised, I need to reread these essays).
• Respond to (i.e. grade) my Expos 3 students' film essays. 

Update: I'm now thinking these will have to get shifted to Monday, and that the Expos 3 grading is going to end up taking a few different chunks of time throughout the week.

• lesson plans for my two courses for next week. We're starting a new unit in one class and are in the middle of a unit in the other. 
• Work on the department facebook page and contact our dept. tech person for help with a problem I'm having with links on that page. 

I think that's it. I also drove to Wichita today and presented at the Kansas Association of Teachers of English (KATE) conference. As some of you know, I only recently (this summer) got my driver's license; this was my first longish drive on my own. I drive around town all the time, but this is about 2.5 hours away. It was a little stressful as it was a bit rainy and pretty windy and there was construction that closed down the exit I needed and the detour signs were tiny and bent--seriously--so that took a bit of figuring out, but I made it there, presented to a generally great group of teachers, and made it back. I just finished dinner, am in the midst of laundry, and am thinking of starting that proposal draft and those Expos prospectuses.

The question is, when am I ever going to get back to my article draft? I'm thinking something like December.