clear my desk

Alas, work has been crazy busy, and I’m not making progress on getting my desk up-to-date. It would be so much easier to work if everything were in order. Right now, I’m making a date with myself for the first free time I have, this Sunday afternoon when I get home from work, to spend the rest of the day on it. I’m planning to file everything that can be filed, and separate the papers that are left into projects.

At least I haven’t undone the three piles: everything in the personal file has stayed in the personal pile, ditto the job pile, and the new business pile. But with the holidays taking up most of the last month, and with other stressful stuff going on, I have not made any progress clearing the piles; indeed, they’ve gotten taller. I think the craziness will be over by the end of October, so I’m going to make a date with myself that when I get home from work on November 1, the entire rest of the day will be spent on one of the piles. Writing it in my appointment book right now!

I have filed the receipts, and divided all the remaining papers into three piles: job, my new business, and personal. I am organized to go in to my job tomorrow, and the only papers on the main surface of my desk are the ones I am using right now.

Must be done this week

so changed my job, and left a loss of stuff undone behind me. Bad kitty. They were total bawbags though, so I dont feel too bad about it.

I met my challenge :o) I moved the clutter elsewhere and have gotten rid of half the useless papers that kept piling up.

Tomorrow I’ll finish sifting through them to finish up, but at least my desk is clear and I can work without having a pile of stuff collapsing over me!

A past neighbor mocked my mother when she “organized” her house. Upon keen consideration, he made the observation that her organization method was really transfering one pile of stuff from one place to another. Somehow, that transfering activity had fulfilled my mother’s satisfaction plentifully —until he made that clever remark.

Admittedly, a little of her organization genes, I’m afraid, were as well transfered to me. I believe, however, that I have worked further towards really decluttering and clearing things. I know I do move piles from here to there, but they eventually find their place out of that pile…

A week ago —or maybe two :P—, we rearranged our studio to fit our desks better, but I just threw everything one on top of the other.

Today, one of my piles collapsed, and I kicked a mat and folder under my desk!! I can’t move! This needs to be decluttered, cleared, and organized by tomorrow. Oh! I’ll set myself a challenge…

When I said clear my desk Imeant kind of metaforically, as I am a teacher, and I don’t even have a desk of my own, well, at home I do, but what I really meant is that I left my marking for a bit, and not it is an almost impossibly massive mountain of stuff, and the idea of going near it actually gives me a headache, and the lack of marked work ready to return to my pupils meaqns that instead of redrafting I am teaching them more and more, but not getting the final pieces they need in their folios.

I feel so guilty and useless, but today I have actually done some, so that’s good. I half feel like I’m tackling it, but on the other hand I feel that it’s such a tiny hole in this vast heap I’ve got to clear. And I am so ashamed I ever let it get like this in the first place. I am holding my students back because of my laziness. Aaargh!

Yeahm so anyway, I have done some marking, I am about to do a little more… It’s all gravy surely? Surely?

Has anyone else ever let it get so bad, and what did they do?

I am still no further. I wish I could just burn it all. It’s soooooo stressful.

The files piled on the left are my outstanding enquiries, so they need to be there. Everything else has been filed!