PLANNER!
I love my planner.
I have the worst memory in the world when it comes to things that actually matter. You want to know the middle name of a fictional person? What the punchline was in last Wednesday's Penny Arcade strip? The release date for the next issue of Hack/Slash? I'm totally your girl. You want to know when my next doctor's appointment is, what time I promised to be at Kate's for dinner, when the movie is, or whether I've remembered to take my calcium pills? I'm totally not your girl. Information comes into my head, and trickles out again just as fast.
For a while, when I was still at SBC, I was keeping a planner with the sort of obsessive devotion normally reserved for children and cats. Then things got scrambled for a while, I stopped keeping up my planner, and it eventually got jammed into a cupboard and forgotten. So sad, the forgotten planner. I thought it might be a good idea to start again, and expressed as much this past December, leading the fabulous Jeanne to offer me a new planner as my combination Christmas/birthday gift. Glee.
I was a little worried that I wouldn't be able to get back into the day-by-day documentation patterns, but I didn't need to be. This is awesome. I have birthdays, convention dates, even movie opening dates recorded in my yearly view, and things like 'flight information', 'mandatory items to achieve on this day', and concert set lists recorded in my daily view. I've been writing down what I spend and where and on what; what I'm reading; even how many rides are left on my bus pass. And it's awesome.
For the first time in quite a long time, I feel like I won't forget where I left my head if I turn my back for five minutes.
This is so cool.
I have the worst memory in the world when it comes to things that actually matter. You want to know the middle name of a fictional person? What the punchline was in last Wednesday's Penny Arcade strip? The release date for the next issue of Hack/Slash? I'm totally your girl. You want to know when my next doctor's appointment is, what time I promised to be at Kate's for dinner, when the movie is, or whether I've remembered to take my calcium pills? I'm totally not your girl. Information comes into my head, and trickles out again just as fast.
For a while, when I was still at SBC, I was keeping a planner with the sort of obsessive devotion normally reserved for children and cats. Then things got scrambled for a while, I stopped keeping up my planner, and it eventually got jammed into a cupboard and forgotten. So sad, the forgotten planner. I thought it might be a good idea to start again, and expressed as much this past December, leading the fabulous Jeanne to offer me a new planner as my combination Christmas/birthday gift. Glee.
I was a little worried that I wouldn't be able to get back into the day-by-day documentation patterns, but I didn't need to be. This is awesome. I have birthdays, convention dates, even movie opening dates recorded in my yearly view, and things like 'flight information', 'mandatory items to achieve on this day', and concert set lists recorded in my daily view. I've been writing down what I spend and where and on what; what I'm reading; even how many rides are left on my bus pass. And it's awesome.
For the first time in quite a long time, I feel like I won't forget where I left my head if I turn my back for five minutes.
This is so cool.