I empathize with the organization work. (I do it for other people on occasion, but I think you're more than a bus ride away.) For entertainment, I recommend one of those trashcan-top shredders, especially the tempermental, hissyfit-prone models. Laff riot!
If you need some material to read while on a break, I hope you've gotten a look at this profile of Clark Johnson in the Times here. (Exceedingly vague spoilers for season 5 of The Wire.)
*holds your hand* Oh, honey. I know just how you feel. I'm still scarred from my 4-day cleanup, highlights of which included emails from 1997, twenty-five 3.5" floppy disks of schoolwork and unsorted pictures, and roughly 70 mix cds of terrifyingly bad taste mp3s. My cats were very afraid of the large stacks of paper I accumulated. I pray yours provide you snuggles and light spirits through this dark tiem.
I'm still cleaning up from the ex-husband, who left in 2002, and from the tree that crashed through the back of my house in January 2006. I make a little progress, get overwhelmed by the remaining work and have to stop for a while. When I read others' clean-up posts, I am inspired to take up the gauntlet again. You have motivated me to tackle those boxes of old tax papers. They are all piled in my office, originally until the attic was rebuilt, but that project was finished a year ago. I think it's time to throw away anything older than 10 years and put the rest back in a new, untorn (labeled) box in the attic.
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If you need some material to read while on a break, I hope you've gotten a look at this profile of Clark Johnson in the Times here. (Exceedingly vague spoilers for season 5 of The Wire.)
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