6 feb 2012

at the office i have a pile of paper - active lists, inactive lists, spreadsheets i've printed out and highlighted with a complexity requiring a legend, agendas with notes, agendas without notes, notes without agendas, documents in process, process documentation, things i need to remember, things i want to remember, things i'd like to forget but should probably remember - all confined to a 1" black looseleaf binder outfitted with plastic pockets. it's an appendix to my brain. a brainpendix. and so i have become loath(e?) to leave it at work. what if the place burned down, for crissakes! ergo friday last, i brought it home with me. being unused to having brought it home, when the time came to leave for work this morning, i left without my brainpendix. monday is Meeting Day so i was in a panic about my inadvertant brainpendectomy but then - ah! - i just grabbed a blank paper pad and strode into the Meeting and announced i was facing the day with a clean slate. turned out to be a quite succesful and, yes, admired method of facing Meeting Day. good thing it wasn't my actual brains i left at home, eh?