April 15th -- Date of Destiny

Three significant events converge on April 15th this year:

• First, it is US Tax Filing Deadline Day. How is it that you can live almost identical lives from year to year, and the forms still look too complicated?
• Second, it is the date of the Sixth History Carnival, which I will be hosting at Cliopatria. Send your nominations (self or other) to me at dresner AT hawaii DOT edu, with"History Carnival" or some such in the subject line. That's so I can tell the difference between your messages and the e-mails from my students asking their grades on the History Fair we just had....
• Third, it is the extended deadline for paper or panel submissions to the 2005 ASPAC conference, which I've mentioned here before. I'll be there, though I haven't figured out what my paper is going to be yet, either. Maybe they'd be interested in a discussion of Asian history blogging?

I don't think I've forgotten anything too important. It's probably the day the supermarkets around here run out of matzo, too, but they don't announce that in advance.