Goals for winter break

I think having goals is a bad idea. Does anyone ever complete a lists of tasks beyond picking up bread and going to the dentist? So this goes against my better judgement. I have until January 18 to get a bunch of stuff done including 

• Organize the Galapagos trip including a few days in Ecuador
• finalizing logistics
• fundraising 
• Organize the Galapagos course
• what we read and when
• Update Biostatistics notes
• move from OpenOffice to Google Docs
• Update biostatistics lab
• need to spend an afternoon turning verbal hypotheses in equations (this is how I approach statistics when I see a problem for the first time). For example, you might ask "what is the relationship between getting diabetes and the amount of sugar intake and exercise"  ->  p(diabetes) = sugar + exercise 
• Finish the West Georgia manuscript on urbanization and birds
• intro needs work
• results and discussion and graphics (ugh).. why is it that paper is so damn hard to work on? 
• Contact... I totally forgot what I was saying 
• Update the Academic Planning Committee website to include a clickable flowchart 
• Send out the survey of undergraduate programs in ornithology survey to start building up a database of ornithologists at undergraduate institutions  
• Get out to birdwatch four times