what's busier than a bee? ME

I know what you're thinking. "Late with the April design too?" And my response is, "Ummm. No. Definitely not. It's not... I mean, it wasn't... late at all... Look! Over there! Something shiny!" This month just whizzed by for me, full of furious activity. For example: we bought an AppleTV, and this whole weekend we've been madly transferring movies to it and watching them. Maybe that's not a good example. But... I have been very busy (Oh yes - and I was quite sick for a while there - migraines from hell, you know.) and it's only getting worse in coming weeks.

Upcoming:

• Uploading the April design and acting like it's been there the whole time
• Creating and then doing a presentation for my product at work on the 22nd
  
• Finishing photos so I can upload them to flickr and be all caught up
• Creating a May design for the site
  
• My cousin Katie in town the 25th - 28th
• DeVotchka at the Fillmore on the 28th
• Former colleague Neff in town the 28th - 30th
• The Breeders on the 30th
• This American Life, Live, in SF, on May 1st
• MakerFaire May 3rd and 4th
• Antiquing at Alameda on May 4th
• RUSH in Concord on May 4th
• At some point in there, having LASIK (again!) on my left eye. Fun!
  

So, as you can see, it's pretty much non-stop starting the 25th, coming to a full-blown explosion on May 4th. Wish me luck! Actually, looking at the list, it's not really getting worse. As a matter of fact, apart from the LASIK thing, it's gonna rock! Or, as I would usually say, "It doesn't suck."

SXSWinteractive calendar by google UX

The UX Team at Google has put together a public Google calendar with all of the daytime panels and nighttime events (the map link even goes directly to that nightspot): SXSWi 07

You can copy the events you want to see to your calendar (Gcal or otherwise), subscribe to the feed, etc. I've already found it handy to keep track of everything going on at once and see what I've chosen to attend.

It's kind of wonky being in a different time zone, as the events currently appear in my calendar as 2 hours earlier than listed, but it will be right when I change my time zone to CT on arrival in Austin.

If you get a chance, check it out - it's a useful tool I'm pretty geeked about having helped create. :)