Checklist: after the fact.

Did I

• have "bake valentine cookies" on my before-I-left To Do list?
• forget the one item of clothing that would have tied certain outfits together?
• bring snacks for the plane?
• read a handful of trashy magazines?
• work on my manuscript?
• record my poems for the Utah Arts Council Bite-Size Poems project? In someone's hotel room?
• hear some poetic heroes read?
• hear Art Spiegelman's evening lecture?
• recommit to loving visual art?
• buy some books?
• get some subscriptions?
• dream about dinner reservations?
• eat dinners at some swanky places?
• forget to bring my bought-for-this-purpose fancy power bars?
• fail to sleep much the last night, and therefore sleep on the plane on the way home?
• have an awesome time?

[answer key: yes, yes, yes, yes, no, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes]