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What I did this weekend:

--washed everything fabric in the apartment.
--folded and put away everything fabric in the apartment
--started in on the huge pile o'crud by the side of my desk (90% of which was manga and art books used as reference for Spindrift and dropped by the side of my desk so I could easily grab them back when I needed them again.*
--the art prompts generator
--dishes
--played about 3 hours of Okami
--watched about 6 episodes of Bleach

What I did not do:

--Anything that I said I would do
--Anything that really needed to get done, including mail out Spindift and PBR orders, start on commissions, do art critiques, clean out the fridge, make any sort of food that leaves leftovers for lunch, or put cash into my bag for drinks and lunch at work today. And, I'm sure, many other things that I really need to get done, like, now.

* A habit I've had for years. I once had a roommate who was angry that I didn't replace books on the shelves after every use, and never understood the concept that the act of getting up to retrieve a book (a) broke my concentration on what I was doing (art, homework) and (b) led to a greater chance of me not actually getting *back* to whatever it was I was doing.

But this is the person who yelled at me because a friend of ours dropped over unexpectedly while I was doing homework and OMG he had to move the books that I had been using to *do* said homework - actively using, not just there-in-case-I-needed-them - from the couch where I'd been sitting, in order to sit down, i.e. she was INSANE.

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Are you taking commissions again?

These are ones from A-Kon, plus a few others from earlier ~~I am not admitting how much earlier~~. If I manage to get all my outstanding commissions done before I go to Japan, I'll open up for a few in order to raise more money for Japan. :)

Yay!

I file everything very....intuitively myself. Often by the stack it around the chair method. I felt vaguely guilty about this but my mom recently found an article that said that people who do this are actually Very Organized and more so than actual organized people. *beams* We're just ahead of the curve is all. Soon, there will be books coming out called, How To File By Your Chair, etc.

Somewhere online is a tongue-in-cheek essay by a professor on filing things horizontally, where he looks at his habit of spreading paper around on every available surface, and decides that getting a large round table, divided into 26 wedges labeled with the letters of the alphabet, would be a far more efficient filing system for him than a filing cabinet. Although then he's got to deal with the issue of getting to his desk by crawling under the table. (He also wrote an essay about the power of procrastination.)

All my stuff that needs to be filed and kept (i.e., tax returns, etc.) is (eventually) put in a large box labeled "To Be Filed." I find it's a very efficient system. The box also serves as a platform for the cat to sit on and stare out the window, which is fine except that it gets thrown up on every so often.

Amen! What better method than being able to see everything at the same time? Also, if I see something in an odd place, I leave it there, because I know I'll remember it. "I know I left my keys next to a red marble, which was on the floor next to my left ballet shoe."

I always have piles and stacks of books and reference material around me. For some reason, I find it less intuitive to keep those things on a shelf. It's easier for me to find things in piles, too, for some reason. I totally understand how getting up to get a book from the shelf breaks your concentration. I'm the same way. Can't even get up and walk across the room when I'm 'in the zone'. XD

A roommate of mine in college was aggravated by the stacks of books on the floor (on my side), until she realized that the stacks were a) neat in and of themselves and b) carefully organized (mostly library books, so organized by due dates, not-read, already-read, etc.).

This particular roommate had roomed with me n the dorms, where I was worse than when we moved to an apartment, but got angry with me anyway. When I told her that she knew what I was like before we moved in, her answer was "But an apartment is different!"

Hon? You should have found out if I shared the same opinion before asking if you could move in with me and the other roommate. :P

I do the same thing with books, only at home I don't have a desk, so they end up on the couch/coffee table/floor/recliner. Not only is it stupid to put away stuff you know you're going to use in two hours, but the shelves I took them from are all the way on the other side of the apartment, meaning an even LONGER walk to retrieve them! This concept does not translate into tolerance by my parents, however. "Put your stuff away!" has been ringing in my ears for twenty years.

=/ I am one of those return-it-to-the-shelf people. I admit sometimes the things I am using have a pile by my desk if I am particularly busy, but I really dislike having the holes in my bookshelf. Which is completely at odds with the rest of my room and lifestyle as I am a drop it and leave it there person*. Just not with my books. When I was younger my sister would take some of the books from my series and read them without returning them and it would drive me nuts, as I would have to tear apart the house to find the missing books.
*Ugh just typing this makes me want to spend the next few hours super-cleaning my room.

You can always tell where I've been sitting - it's the chair that's surrounded by books. And, no, I don't want to take them upstairs. Cecause then I'll just have to bring them back down.

And why I like to do so many print-outs... when I need the info, I'm not at the computer, and it's far easier to just scramble through a pile of paper than go turn on the computer and look it up. I don't know why that's logical, but that's how it is. I did get a concertina file, mainly so I could keep different projects separate. It lives by my bed.