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[telophase]

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.

Comments

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

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.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

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.

[unrelatedwaffle.livejournal.com]

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."