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Oct. 11th, 2005 10:19 pmI'm having some organizational problems.
Today was fairly typical. I had Long Range Planning this evening, which is a church committee. People from various other church committees have been e-mailing stuff to me all month, and for tonight's meeting my responsibility was to print everything out and make copies for the rest of the LRP committee.
Last night I printed everything out. I left it all next to my keyboard so that I would remember it in the morning. This morning I remembered to bring it downstairs, but when I got to the bus stop I realized, with a shock, that I had no recollection of putting any of it in my briefcase. I looked through the briefcase on the bus and didn't see the papers. So I didn't do any LRP photocopying at work. When I came home, I expected to see the stack of papers on the couch... or the living room floor... or the dining room table... or my desk. Nope. I looked again in my briefcase, and there it was! But too late to make copies at work. So instead I printed out four more copies of everything.
In an exciting codcil, Michael mailed his material to me at the office today. I printed it out and made copies for my committee. Then I left it on my desk, so when I came home I had to log onto my work e-mail and print five copies of that one too.
I'm like that at work, too, and with my personal business. My life these days seems like it's one long string of "oh yeah, I was supposed to do that." I've been meaning to schedule a midwife appointment for the past two months. I haven't renewed our parking permit, and the old one expired on the first.
I'm not really sure what would help. I probably need to replace my Palm Pilot - I bought my current one used from half.com when we were in a broke period, and it turned out to be damaged. The screen has a tiny crack (which the seller described as "a scratch"), big enough that taps in the lower part of the screen don't register in precisely the spot that they should. I used to put up with the hassle, but in recent years I've almost completely stopped using my Palm. Which means that I don't have a reliable calendar that I look at often, or an ongoing to-do list.
Mostly this is a vent of frustration. I'm not especially happy with myself right now, and I don't think that many people who depend on my work are all that happy with me either. Except for the one who, you know, screams until I do what she wants.
Today was fairly typical. I had Long Range Planning this evening, which is a church committee. People from various other church committees have been e-mailing stuff to me all month, and for tonight's meeting my responsibility was to print everything out and make copies for the rest of the LRP committee.
Last night I printed everything out. I left it all next to my keyboard so that I would remember it in the morning. This morning I remembered to bring it downstairs, but when I got to the bus stop I realized, with a shock, that I had no recollection of putting any of it in my briefcase. I looked through the briefcase on the bus and didn't see the papers. So I didn't do any LRP photocopying at work. When I came home, I expected to see the stack of papers on the couch... or the living room floor... or the dining room table... or my desk. Nope. I looked again in my briefcase, and there it was! But too late to make copies at work. So instead I printed out four more copies of everything.
In an exciting codcil, Michael mailed his material to me at the office today. I printed it out and made copies for my committee. Then I left it on my desk, so when I came home I had to log onto my work e-mail and print five copies of that one too.
I'm like that at work, too, and with my personal business. My life these days seems like it's one long string of "oh yeah, I was supposed to do that." I've been meaning to schedule a midwife appointment for the past two months. I haven't renewed our parking permit, and the old one expired on the first.
I'm not really sure what would help. I probably need to replace my Palm Pilot - I bought my current one used from half.com when we were in a broke period, and it turned out to be damaged. The screen has a tiny crack (which the seller described as "a scratch"), big enough that taps in the lower part of the screen don't register in precisely the spot that they should. I used to put up with the hassle, but in recent years I've almost completely stopped using my Palm. Which means that I don't have a reliable calendar that I look at often, or an ongoing to-do list.
Mostly this is a vent of frustration. I'm not especially happy with myself right now, and I don't think that many people who depend on my work are all that happy with me either. Except for the one who, you know, screams until I do what she wants.
