gillpolack (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gillpolack) wrote,@ 2008-03-20 11:54:00 |
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If friends are dropping in tomorrow night then I need to clear some of the flat surfaces in this place. My flat surfaces during teaching periods are always covered, often to two feet deep.
Today I have worked very hard at sorting and thinking and no surface has more than six inches of paper on. I have a single stack of 'need to finish with' stuff next to my arm chair. I have a big bag of paper for recycling. I have piles to go away in various locations (the biggest is financial matters and the second biggest is poetry by one of my students). I have a growing list of stuff that must be done today, before 4 pm, and finishing that list should clear a whole chair.
This whole procedure is very strange right now, though. I still have four weeks of teaching left. The paper should be mounting ever-higher, not reducing to rationality.
For all folks droppping into tomorrow night, I will not have won the paper war, but there will be chairs, and I promise you won't find yourself sitting on a note saying (picking paper at random):
"'Computers,' I said, surprised at hearing the word."
or even
"semi-anthropological semi-historical descriptive narrative exerts its gravitational pull"
Today I have worked very hard at sorting and thinking and no surface has more than six inches of paper on. I have a single stack of 'need to finish with' stuff next to my arm chair. I have a big bag of paper for recycling. I have piles to go away in various locations (the biggest is financial matters and the second biggest is poetry by one of my students). I have a growing list of stuff that must be done today, before 4 pm, and finishing that list should clear a whole chair.
This whole procedure is very strange right now, though. I still have four weeks of teaching left. The paper should be mounting ever-higher, not reducing to rationality.
For all folks droppping into tomorrow night, I will not have won the paper war, but there will be chairs, and I promise you won't find yourself sitting on a note saying (picking paper at random):
"'Computers,' I said, surprised at hearing the word."
or even
"semi-anthropological semi-historical descriptive narrative exerts its gravitational pull"
