have never crossed every item off a to-do list. I'd like to think it's because I make ambitious lists. But it's not. I'm unfocused. With things like "Figure out one-man show" and "Fix Web site" on my list, I'm kind of set up for incompletion. Sometimes I cross out something and put "1/2" next to it—because I almost did it. Other times I remember something I completed earlier, so I write it down, just to be able to cross it off.
This week has started early for me. My plane landed at JFK at 6:05 this morning. I had a window seat: 33A. The window shade was stuck open, which I discovered at sunrise because half of my face was really hot. I