10 minutes to kill

I'm going out to dinner with my sister tonight, but she just called to say she's running late, so I have ten minutes to kill. What can I blog about for ten minutes?

On Saturday, I met with the rest of the Akros staff to figure out our editorial process. This is the first year in quite some time that we have accepted submissions from outside the university and it's also (as far as I know) the biggest staff ever, so we were kind of confused about where to start. Well, I think we figured it out, and now I have a huge pile of poems to read (and some fiction...I'm not sure they should trust my opinion on that, though--I like Nora Roberts for Pete's sake). I'm really looking forward to it, but for some reason, the food network has been keeping me occupied for the last few days, so no reading done yet.

Last week, I sent some poems to Subtropics, Crazyhorse, AGNI, and The Cincinnati Review. Oh, and Post Road. My new goal is to send poems to at least five journals a week...I'm hoping pure oversaturation will get me published. I haven't picked my five for this week yet, I'm still rummaging through the piles I brought home from AWP and trying to match it up with the research I did before.

Well, looks like my ten minutes are up. Off to the Outback. Mmm...steak.