In today's episode of what academics do on their summer vacations...

...well, besides cleaning the house prior to departure for California.

1.  I've got an article draft well under way.  Given the usual length restrictions (this one is for a companion), I'm probably going to have to restrict its scope somewhat.  In any event, I expect to have this one fully drafted by the end of July, given current progress.

2.  Finishing up the background primary reading for another article.  (We'll see how much of this I can get through in transit!)  This is material that will probably get a few sentences, if that, but it's necessary for scene-setting purposes.  I admit that the critical reading for this article is also doing some double-duty for a new course I'm teaching in the fall; I usually don't do that, but a) my chair asked for a new course, b) I had this article to write, and c) multiple figurative bird-killings with single stones commenced.

3.  I just sent off one book review.

4.  I have to make some minor corrections to another review this evening and send it back to the editors.

5.  A short solicited article is currently experiencing the excitement of peer review.  Of course, that means further revisions.

6.  I need to revise an abstract and circulate it to the other authors of an edited collection I'm in.  (Fortunately, this article already exists in draft form.)

7.  Still doing some reading for a revise-and-resubmit I got earlier this year.  I probably can't get to the revise part until later in the fall, though.