Bloggiesta wrap-up

Wow. I needed to do a pre-Bloggiesta so I would have had more time to do the Bloggiesta! I spent a total of about 12 hours on my to-do list, much of which was spent agonizing over my Nerds Heart YA post and procrastinating on the very same post.

I cleared out my first tier in my Bloglines reader, which only leaves....about 2100 unread posts! So, no problem there. Ha! Managed to create some poetry as well, of which I will share one. I decided to call this one Essence of Procrastination. It was created out of my Tweets throughout the day--taking one form of procrastination and transforming it into an entirely new form of procrastination! And now I'm posting about the poem, which would make this the third level of procrastination, and you're probably reading this post instead of doing something else, bringing us to the Fourth Level of Procrastination!
Anyway, I changed the order of the tweets and deleted some parts and came up with this:

Essence of Procrastination

Finally got my to-do list done! It fell

on the floor

when I was putting laundry away.

Wonder what I'm doing

wrong.

Just lost the book I was blogging about

Still have the bird on my background page though

How does this happen?

As a review policy, it definitely does the trick

Now we won't confuse anyone.

I'll blog it

for it's own sake

No sense of obligation

to contact further

if I don't love it

Even if it doesn't get done this weekend,

it helps to put it all on the list, right?

My theory, anyway.

Profound, huh? So, when I wasn't being all poetic and stuff, I was doing this stuff on Worducopia:

• Write Diversity Roll Call post
• Finish reading Alive & Well in Prague New York for Nerds Heart YA Tournament
• Write Bloggiesta to-do list
• Write up thoughts on Alive & Well in Prague New York and Stop Me If You've Heard This Before for Nerds Heart YA
• Get with Lenore to make Nerds Heart YA round 1 decision
• Write up and post decision by Sunday
  

And a little bit of this:

• Write Something Beyond Greatness post for Tues. Half done
  
• Interview Chris about Momentum is Your Friend for another "He Read It, I Didn't" post. He refused! "It's been too long," he said. I'll try again later.
  
• Book chat with Ben and Evan about the Ranger's Apprentice series Chat done but not written up
  
• Willamette Writer's Conference post for Reading Local: Portland
  
• Read and write up a short story post for Short Story Sundays/Mondays
• Update challenges with books read Well, I looked at the challenges, does that count? I now remember what they are.
  
• Add new posts to Bookworms Carnival (Jill's, mine) and contact local authors First part done, second part ignored
  
• Add links to other reviews to past reviews Wow, that phrase makes very little sense now that I reread it.
  
• Add links to connect posts to each other: Roaring Forties book reviews, Carlson posts, Lahiri posts Partly done
  
• Update soundtrack segments, to link to last.fm Partly done

But none of this:

Personal Blog (Alirambles) ignored yet again, poor little blog

• Post about homeschool co-op camping trip (photos from Linda?)
  
• Post charter school/homeschool update
• Add labels to posts
  

Diversity Rocks Maybe next week?

• Write half-way point post for July 1
• Contact publishers regarding prizes for second half of challenge
  
• Change music playlist to Asian music

Exo-blogging tasks Dream on, Ali!

• Transfer reviews to LibraryThing
• Update tags on LibraryThing books
• Register Book Crossing books
• Post on Homeschool Lounge

This Bloggiesta was so much fun, I only wish I had been able to spend more time doing the mini-challenges and less time doing my Urgent to-do's. I did do parts of almost all the challenges, and have others marked to go back to this week. Thank you so much, Natasha, for setting this up, and thanks to the other bloggers who helped with the challenges.

Bloggiesta to-do list

I don't really like meta-blogging on Worducopia, so I'm going to post my Bloggiesta updates here, which is also where I keep track of my challenges. So, here's my to-do list:

Urgent

• Write Diversity Roll Call post
• Finish reading Alive & Well in Prague New York for Nerds Heart YA Tournament
• Write Bloggiesta to-do list
• Write up thoughts on Alive & Well in Prague New York and Stop Me If You've Heard This Before for Nerds Heart YA
• Get with Lenore to make Nerds Heart YA round 1 decision
• Write up and post decision by Sunday

Up and Coming

• Write Something Beyond Greatness post for Tues.
  
• Interview Chris about Momentum is Your Friend for another "He Read It, I Didn't" post.
• Book chat with Ben and Evan about the Ranger's Apprentice series
• Willamette Writer's Conference post for Reading Local: Portland
  
• Read and write up a short story post for Short Story Sundays/Mondays
• Update challenges with books read
• Add new posts to Bookworms Carnival (Jill's, mine) and contact local authors
• Add links to other reviews to past reviews
• Add links to connect posts to each other: Roaring Forties book reviews, Carlson posts, Lahiri posts
• Update soundtrack segments, to link to last.fm
  

Personal Blog (Alirambles)

• Post about homeschool co-op camping trip (photos from Linda?)
  
• Post charter school/homeschool update
• Add labels to posts
  

Diversity Rocks

• Write half-way point post for July 1
• Contact publishers regarding prizes for second half of challenge
  
• Change music playlist to Asian music

Exo-blogging tasks

• Transfer reviews to LibraryThing
• Update tags on LibraryThing books
• Register Book Crossing books
• Post on Homeschool Lounge

GLBT Reading Challenge

GLBT Challenge

Read 6 books in 6 months in any genre. Books must deal with GLBT themes or be written by GLBT authors. No X-rated stuff, nothing that purposely attacks the GLBT community.

The challenge runs from July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009. You may join at any time.

Here's my list of titles, I think they may all be YA titles though and I'd like a little variety so I may change up one or two. Then again, I haven't been reading as much YA these past few months, so maybe this is good.

The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List, by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Debby Harry Sings in French, by Megan Brothers
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson
Hero, by Perry Moore
Empress of the World, by Sara Ryan

Also, I have recommendations! Wonderful, wonderful books, listed below.

Michael Cunningham: anything! But especially A Home at the End of the World
Marc Acito: How I Paid for College or it's sequel, Attack of the Theater People
Garret Freymann Weyr: My Heartbeat
Michael Harmon: Last Exit to Normal