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March 07, 2008
spring
i laid out the full calendar for april and may. aside from my usual visits to (and imports from) virginia, i'll be visiting atlanta, miami, and indianapolis this spring. another weekend will be spent on dan's graduation, resulting in much jubilation and dinner at everyone's favorite massive local barn-like steak house.
i'd had it in the back of my mind that i might want to volunteer for the obama campaign in NC, but looking at that calendar, i realized there's no sane way i can do that. there's no way.
i'm also going to have an interesting time working out cat care. all of the trips are short, and moses is in pretty stable condition right now. provided i can give him fluids on the days i leave and return, i think my usual cat care buddies can handle everything else. that's about a thousand miles away from where i was four months ago, when i didn't want to spend even one day away from him and made his care a full time job. but he's good now. and if he's not good when i go, dr. c has assured me that he can stay at the vet and will be given tons of attention and care.
this is all happening against a backdrop of I'm Getting My Shit Together, which has been a general theme in several parts of my life, and which seems to occupy an awful lot of my free time. it's focused on my finances to a large extent; an offshoot of that is dealing with the fact that my "filing system" is failing to scale and i now have a table full of loosely organized stacks of paper which, to the untrained eye, might appear to just be strewn about haphazardly.
because we'll be getting an entire drought's worth of rain over the course of the day friday and saturday, forcing me to stay away from yard work this weekend, i hope to emerge into the sun on sunday with a fully functional file system and a newly organized closet in the dining room. you'll see. i'll post photos.
I'm Getting My Shit Together has also lead me to order a certain organizational book that the geeks all love. Even though I haven't read it yet, I'm dangerously close to Inbox Zero and even Desk Zero. Co-workers have actually commented on the extreme de-cluttering of my desk at work. I'm going to have one of those moments soon where I sit at my desk, not a loose paper to be seen, and say, oh my god, i am so organized! It will be like the first time you get really drunk and you think oh my god, i'm so drunk!
and in other news, there's a very large, very dead tree in the railway easement adjacent to my back yard and it's sending hunks of its rotten trunk into my yard every time it rains. i'm actually a little worried that it's tall enough to fall on my house. i have a tree guy coming to look at it as soon as the rain stops. why it never occurred to me to do anything about it before, i don't know. i remember looking up at it in the warmer months and noticing that it had no leaves-- and in fact, no branches. the neuron that would have told me that it posed a danger to my house apparently never fired.
Posted by lisa at March 07, 2008 12:12 AM
Comments
The IGMST sounds pretty cool. I'd like me some of that. Enjoy while you can! Sunday is coming to rob you of an hour of your aheadness :-)
Posted by: Phil on March 7, 2008 01:22 AM
I like "IGMST" better than GTD. :) GTD is prolly a trademark anyway.
Posted by: Joseph H. Vilas on March 7, 2008 11:42 AM
notice how i never say "GTD" or "DA" anywhere in my blog entry :)
Posted by: lisa on March 7, 2008 11:50 AM
ok, so a) your comment won't post right away because i have to approve it first and b) you might get a server error but your comment probably posted anyway and c) previewing doesn't work so i've removed the preview button.