Liblog: Check check and check

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July 08, 2008

Check check and check

On a day to day basis, there are little things that need to be done, should be done, and things you just really want to do. I'm not really much of a list-maker; I have always been a mental-list keeper. This, of course, makes it hard to let go of the stress of a "to-do." At least by writing down your projects you can let the paper worry about each un-checked box.

I realize just how much keeping the list mentally affects me. When I first realized as a child that I preferred to keep mental lists, my lists usually consisted of:

Pack a lunch
Return book to the library
Ride the bus home today

And so it was no big deal not to write it down. Now my list consists of more important, timely and long-term projects. I'm feeling a lot better these days because in the last week I have completed four of these looming tasks that tend to cause a sort of constant unrest and worry. List of completed tasks:

Find passport (this one was freaking me out just a little, seeing as how I had no idea where it was since the time I moved to Portland)
Register car in Oregon*
Organize shload of crap in storage downstairs (lead to the finding of the passport)
Conquer fear of the file-box (sparked by both the finding of the passport and by the amount of paperwork-to-be-filed pulled out of the shloads downstairs)

Here are the most prominent things that are still weighing on my mind:

Take car to the shop* (*this and the registration are more costly endeavors, which is why they got put off. At least I knew how much the registration would cost. This, my squealing car, I don't even want to know...)
Pay second installment for Elly's painting

I don't think this has made me any more likely to start making lists. The sooner I make a list, the sooner I have proof of my unproductivity. Nonetheless, I do feel better for having accomplished something that lightens my mental burden.

Posted by libbystokes at July 8, 2008 02:41 PM

Comments

Lists are the product of school, I know it to be true, and myself have been panicking for lack of completing my own.

You have until September to pay that second installment :) just so you don't freak out.

That toothbrush photo is kind of lovely.

Posted by: Eleanor Clemmons at July 11, 2008 02:15 PM