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My today's tasks come in pairs:

I have two parcels (one a review book and the other some gourmet honey - thank you so much cursor_mundi!).

I have two books to read (done).

I have two articles to read (fourteen pages to go). (update: done!)

I have job applications to do (not even started - job applications still scare me bootless). (update: one done - and the other can wait til tomorrow if I run out of time tonight)

I have two lots of dishes to wash (one done).

I have two emails to send (more are possible).

I have, however, only one chapter to edit and no, I haven't started that either and it's due by my meeting tonight. (update: it was two, but I'd forgotten one and they're now done)

I have one meeting tonight.

I was doing very well on my lists until two hours ago, when I lost it bigtime. I have just made myself more coffee and am using that as a lever to get back into things.

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I should have blogged my new BiblioBuffet essay earlier. Some of you may remember I forced a book on friends at Conflux and said "This is spec fic - except it's literary - and you really ought to read it and work it out for yourself" - that book is one of the two I looked at this fortnight: http://www.bibliobuffet.com/bookish-dreaming/1861-hearts-in-translation-102812

I need to retrieve my copy from the friends who borrowed it and maybe have another look at it. It's one of those novels that only becomes clear at the end. I think I really like it, but for a while I wondered why I had it at all. Books like this are wonderful discoveries, for you just don't know unless you read the whole thing and, even then, you reserve the right to change your mind and somehow, during the process of thinking and revisiting and reviewing, you find yourself falling quietly in love.

Now all I have to do is work out how to pronounce the author's name. Acute accents over the letter o are not acute accents I know the rules for.

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Ice-cream made of Smurfs - for the good folk at Momentum.