Today is the first day of the A-Z Challenge, which runs for the month of April. The challenge was started by Lee over at Tossing It Out, and apparently this is only the second year running the challenge… but you wouldn’t necessarily know it, because there are over 800 bloggers (last I checked) participating this year!

Yikes.

Now, I planned out about half the month’s posts (but of course haven’t had even half a second to write them yet) in hopes that I’ll actually make it through the challenge in one piece. One letter every day, excluding Sundays.

I had originally planned to post a book review for the AMAZING book ‘Among Others’ by Jo Walton, but I think I’ll have to save that for tomorrow and fudge it as ‘B’ for “book review”. Heh. How original.

As for today, ‘A’ is for “almost there”.

Here’s how many things are “almost there” for me, and yes, you’re allowed to leave now and come back tomorrow as this is a somewhat self-indulgent post that updates my life. And provides (not entirely) witty meta-commentary along the way. HAH.

Almost There:

• Teaching the English Comp class; just two more classes to go and it’s DONE (aside from marking their final papers).
• Setting up the critique group… I need to send my OWN info to the others and set up meeting #1.
• The WIP I’ve been planning to edit for the past 3 months… and will have the time for as soon as I’m finished teaching the Comp class.
• This session of dance classes; the recital is in just a few weeks and then the crazy multiple late-nights in a row will be DONE.
• The next session of dance classes is almost here… for which I need to choreograph 2 brand new pieces… OH, CRAP.
• Spring!!! It’s almost there… just a bit more snow to melt…
• My sanity… well, that’s more like ‘barely there’, but I’m hanging on.
• Time to do things like: Comment on your blogs (I miss you guys!), post on Librarything.com (I miss them, too), go outside, read…

And in the meantime, my cooking skills are “almost there” (I’ve just changed diets entirely, and I may add a writing-related post about this sometime… yes, that’s right, a food-related writing post… I’ll make it relevant, I swear), and my brother is going to England for a few months (*sad* …happy for him, but still *sad*) very soon, so he’s “almost there”.

No, I’m not whining (honest!) but it’s interesting how life sometimes brings a whole lot of “almost theres” at once. Like the universe can’t be bothered to spread things out a bit. Thanks a lot, UNIVERSE. Pffft.

But that also means there’s a lot to look forward to. I’ve had a great experience with teaching this semester, but it consumed my life a lot more than I’d expected it to. Along with teaching dance 3 additional nights a week, there wasn’t a whole lot of time to write… but in a few more weeks, that changes.

So, we’ll see what life throws at me next. At least there’s never a dull moment!

Anyone else have some “almosts” this Spring season?

What’s changing or about to change for you as the season flips over?