Bloggiesta

I wanted to join the Bloggiesta, sponsored & headed by Maw Books, but just didn't think it was possible when I got up this morning. However, after pushing aside some of the factors holding me up, I'm now able and willing to join. I will have to tweak the entire challenge just a bit to meet my needs and time zone though. Below are my issues and goals.

Problems/Issues:

• Extreme Jetlag -- From my conference back on the mainland. Yes, I'm a bit of a wimp (as my dad would say).
• Online Job -- I am just concluding one class today (with 50 students), and starting two more (with 41 students total).

Okay, so there's my excuse & whine session down for the world to see. I've been online all day, taking care of work and life things, so I just didn't see how participating in the Bloggiesta would even be possible except that once I finished mowing through all the "required" things I needed to do, I saw how much I could still accomplish if I just modified the Challenge and jumped in now. So, it's after 6 pm, and I'm just now getting my initial post up, but that's okay. Let's get started!


So, here are my modifications & goals.

Modifications:

• I'm going to count starting at 2pm my time (6pm MST), since that's about when I took a break and actually did check a few Tweets & blog posts. Even though I went back to work, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it!
• Church on Sunday will actually chop the rest of my time off in the morning, so I'll come home and do a little bit after I get home.
  

Goals:

• Write book review for The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns.
  
• Write book review for The Heretic Queen
• Set up book giveaway of The Fiery Cross
• Come up with ideas for review/post of 2nd in Sharon Lathan series (Contact Sharon?)
  
• Work on Cookbook Challenge ideas
• Try to widen columns on blogger layout
• Look into changing url to include blog title
• Post about what's on my desk (take picture of books, etc.)
• Acknowledge books received recently
• Acknowledge book award received
• Read my Google Reader, as its +1000 from my week-long conference!
• Set up giveaway for my Rejuvenate & Renew Challenge
• Set up a book reading schedule so that I don't miss my ARC reviews!!!
• Participate in mini challenges???
  

Well, these are just some of my hang ups and goals. Tomorrow will be a hard day to blog, as I'm heading to Honolulu's 62nd Annual Book Sale. It should be great fun, but make for a long day. I doubt I'll be home much tomorrow, but I'll get in some of these goals tonight while my students on the mainland slumber away!