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Now that it is barely a week until WisCon, I am finding a truly remarkable number of things to do instead of working on the stuff I would like to have done for the art show. Of course this is nothing unusual, but I have picked up the pace so as to actually get done the things I want to do in amongst all the other daily household stuff. Fortunately I have arranged things so that apahacking is in this situation avoidance behavior too, and so is writing important emails, and reading library books, when I maybe ought to be painting and laying gold leaf instead.

Making a list of the things I ought to do is not nearly so satisfying as a list of what I have actually done. But I suspect I'm not the only one who also folds the laundry and empties the dishwasher instead of pursuing my favorite creative activities. Maybe it's a little disorganized or contrary of me to practice such mundane priorities, but there it is.

Number One Son and I watched a fantasy movie this evening in which: The hero sneaks into the Temple of Doom to battle snakes. The hero is tortured to death by the bad guys, then his friends take him to the wizard who says "He's only partly dead". James Earl Jones intones to the hero, "I am your father". The hero kills the bad guy with the shards of his father's sword.

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