Still Here...

I've been up to my eyeballs in student papers. Short and simple. I'd love to say I've been reading ms. that I promised to read, or writing the noir novel that I'm about 10k short of finishing. None of that would reflect reality. I'm simply swamped. In the past few weeks, I've managed to miss three deadlines for short story contests (stories written out in my head but, alas...) and backburnered ad copy that I'm supposed to come up with for ad space I'm running this summer. Can I catch up? Well, I don't have much choice.