Small Good Things (Pre-Conference Edition)

So in the next week, on top of all the usual work stuff, I will be attending a professional conference, putting together my annual review materials, writing a letter of recommendation for a student, sending out a book manuscript to a national contest, attending two talks on campus, and starting an IUI cycle. I am, as my acupuncturist says, scattery at the moment. So let's take a moment to review some small goodness:

1. My conference paper is pretty much done. Except I just looked at the program and unless I am misreading (which I wouldn't rule out) there are 5 papers on my panel, instead of the usual 3. Which means this almost-done paper might need to be cut by 5 minutes or more. For now, let's focus on the really-almost-done-ness of the thing, which hovers somewhere between absolutely freaking brilliant and completely stupid and lame :)
2. My diss director is presenting a paper at the same time as me, which means she won't be able to tell me it's stupid and lame (which she probably wouldn't do to my face, even though we're not on the best of terms right now).
3. Tentative plans to meet up with another blogger. Yay!
4. Tentative plans to meet up with Dr. Boy (which, honestly, I'm feeling less excited about, which probably has to do with the Estrace/Prometrium cocktail shoved up my you-know-where at the moment).
5. Acupuncture this afternoon. Please may I have the valium-like needle-in-the-head trick? Pretty please?

Sometime today I need to do the following:

1. Finish and print the paper, because I'm not taking the laptop with me.
2. Call Dr. Gorgeous's nurses to ask small questions about protocol.
3. Go to the bank.
4. Put gas in the car.
5. Draft a letter of recommendation (methinks this won't actually get done)[ Who knew I'd find the time for this one? And it's virtually printable].
6. Go to the pharmacy to pick up can't-travel-without-them migraine meds.
7. Go to grocery store to pick up OJ, apples, and eat-in-car food.
8. Go to acupuncture.
9. Meet LG at the bus stop at 4:15.
10. Pack.

On your marks, get set, go!