Progress: Part 1
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gerisullivanMy desk can usually be best described as "chaotic." It's a flat surface, and I've long said I'm genetically incapable of maintaining clean, flat surfaces. Paper accumulates. Paper that need handling -- rebates to send in by some certain date that's too often missed, project schedules, receipts, boarding passes, business cards, printed copies of client changes, layouts, articles, and more. And paper that should have just gone into the recycling bin in the first place, though most of the paper on my desk at any given time is paper of interest, with intentions of further action.
Every so often, about once a year or so, the chaos on my desk swells. The piles grow taller and more intermingled. Nearby clean, flat surfaces such as other chairs and the floor begin accumulating bags, boxes, and kipple that would topple the pile on the desk. I'm outside my comfort zone, but that's usually followed by several weeks of "I need to clean my desk" thinking. Then there comes the week where pretty much every day I think I'm going to clean my desk that very day. Other stuff happens and the chaos continues...until I finally clean the desk.
This was that week. Today is finally that day. I'm about halfway through the task. I've been through everything to the left of my computer, and the keyboard shelf, too. There's still a bit of paper, but I can see plenty of clean, flat desk surface, too. The chair on the right is mostly clear, and the floor next to my desk no longer has two backpacks and one canvas bag laying on it.
Now for the rest of the desk...and the rest of the office!
Every so often, about once a year or so, the chaos on my desk swells. The piles grow taller and more intermingled. Nearby clean, flat surfaces such as other chairs and the floor begin accumulating bags, boxes, and kipple that would topple the pile on the desk. I'm outside my comfort zone, but that's usually followed by several weeks of "I need to clean my desk" thinking. Then there comes the week where pretty much every day I think I'm going to clean my desk that very day. Other stuff happens and the chaos continues...until I finally clean the desk.
This was that week. Today is finally that day. I'm about halfway through the task. I've been through everything to the left of my computer, and the keyboard shelf, too. There's still a bit of paper, but I can see plenty of clean, flat desk surface, too. The chair on the right is mostly clear, and the floor next to my desk no longer has two backpacks and one canvas bag laying on it.
Now for the rest of the desk...and the rest of the office!
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Re: I've got a week
Date: 2007-08-18 07:19 am (UTC)I could use the income of seven weeks of work and work. Heck, I could use the income from 17 weeks of work and work! It sounds like even a week of vacation and six weeks of work and work will go a long way toward paying for the worrisome stuff. Here's wishing prosperity for both of us!
Spell checking note: The first suggestion for "sort'n'clean" is "satanical"! Other options include the fannish "stenciling" and also strangling, snorkeling, stinking, and stonking. Stonking...what a great word! My pocket Oxford defines "stonker" as slang for "excellent person or thing." Sort'n'clean activities are stonking, indeed!