Remember how I said I’d be cleaning the office this summer? It’s a really slow process for me, if only because I have so much SHIT, but also because I procrastinate and find other things to keep my attention, like iSketch. I commenced with the desk area the week before last and last week — last week I slacked and didn’t do much of any cleaning. But the desk is clean!
It is beautiful.
Right now, however, there is a large stack of papers on my desk that needs to be shredded but other than that it has stayed clean. On Monday I started Phase Two of Office Cleaning 2007, which includes very generally, the entire floor: the shit under the second table that has been piling up for months, the shit in front of the bookcases, and the shit that I’ve been stacking in the back corner. Don’t stack stuff in corners, folks; the stacks only seem to grow with time.
As per The David’s suggestions and GTD, I collected everything into one area and then started the task of processing. I had to process all this shit four times because I had so much paper stuff that needed to be filed in multiple places, thrown away, or shredded.
It was not fun.
But I got it done.
Ever wanted to know what four years’ worth of class notes looks like?
Left to be cleaned are the bookcases, the shit on top of the second table, and those very scary closets. Then the rest of the house. Eek!
i was in school for so long that i never even considered keeping my notes. after every class i’d give the notebook a quick skim just to make sure i didn’t want to keep it but it was mostly a formality. i usually did it while standing next to the nearest trash bin of whichever class i’d just finished. i never once regretted that decision. i did once stupidly sell back one of my psyc books. that was a mistake because a few years later i really needed it and had to buy it again. ugh.
I keep my notes so that I have the reference material for later, just in case I should ever need it. Granted, some stuff I probably won’t need (such as the bio or fucking music). I still haven’t crossed sociology off my list of possible studies for graduate school, so I may want that info later.
I’ve kept a fair share of the books I’ve had to buy for classes and then there were some I couldn’t sell-back quick enough. I think I should skim down on the Spanish books, though, as I have at least four different ones.
I’m a packrat.
I believe you have done a wonderful job on the office so now if your partner gives you a hard time…I will kick some ass!! Really probably just yell and say profanity but still that counts for something right?
Hey! It certainly counts!
I don’t think you did any cleaning of the office the week you mentioned, but that is besides the point. Slow and stea…well, just slow.
You’ll make it, I know. Or at least that is what I keep telling myself. Otherwise, I would find the nearest support beam (wouldn’t take much to hold my 80 pound ass) and hang myself from a VGA cable.
All in good time…and that time is now!
omg, you’re my hero.
you *finished* filing things?
…there’s hope (for me) after all!…
The filing was actually fun, in a weird way. The fun part was being able to play with file folders and the filing cabinet. The part where I had to sit amongst piles and piles of papers, sort them, and then figure out in which file they need to go, that wasn’t so much fun.
Good luck to you, chickitabanana!
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