Ebb & Flow in the Organizing Process
Mar. 16th, 2009 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pseydtonneSome days you can grind on a physical task for hours. I love those days because they dissolve in work, wash through the mind and build the muscles.
Today, in contrast, I got about 45 minutes of organizing done when my lower back started to ache. It was maybe a 2 or 3 on the pain scale, but it was getting worse from hunching over boxes. So I dragged a couple bags of crap into my room and sorted them from my respectably comfy office chair.
The dining room table still looks bad, but a third of the stuff that was strewn across it last night is now in an assigned box. I can finally pick up 85% of random objects and say "this is an X, and its box is Y which is here, next...". Getting rid of the opaque shopping bags and seeing the material is a big deal for me.
Today I found even more PDA equipment, which meant I had to find another shoe box for the residue. I suspect some of that stuff will not survive the second round of organizing.
Oh yes, this is just the first round. It's taken months to gather the stuff, toss the major objects and figure out the groupings for the remainder. After this I'll have to decide whether some stuff will ever get another use: many things won't.
I must get going. I'm attending a reception for new members of the Alliance Française (which I joined about a month before I got the axe), so I need to wash up and look less like a geek. Oh, Back Bay...
Today, in contrast, I got about 45 minutes of organizing done when my lower back started to ache. It was maybe a 2 or 3 on the pain scale, but it was getting worse from hunching over boxes. So I dragged a couple bags of crap into my room and sorted them from my respectably comfy office chair.
The dining room table still looks bad, but a third of the stuff that was strewn across it last night is now in an assigned box. I can finally pick up 85% of random objects and say "this is an X, and its box is Y which is here, next...". Getting rid of the opaque shopping bags and seeing the material is a big deal for me.
Today I found even more PDA equipment, which meant I had to find another shoe box for the residue. I suspect some of that stuff will not survive the second round of organizing.
Oh yes, this is just the first round. It's taken months to gather the stuff, toss the major objects and figure out the groupings for the remainder. After this I'll have to decide whether some stuff will ever get another use: many things won't.
I must get going. I'm attending a reception for new members of the Alliance Française (which I joined about a month before I got the axe), so I need to wash up and look less like a geek. Oh, Back Bay...
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