Apr. 2nd, 2011

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The other day I found my birth certificate. "What good timing," I said. "I need this for my passport." Then I put it down, somewhere safe. That somewhere is so very safe that I've had to bring forward the Giant Paper Sort I had planned for the week after next. My loungeroom/working area is in a state (even for it) and I've found everything from undergraduate records through to ECGs done early last year.

No birth certificate yet, and a few other things will have to be put off, but I'm revisiting my last year and planning my next one and catching up on reading and postcards and little notes from friends, all at once. Also, my big table is actually almost visible, for the first time since I got sick. The small table has two feet of paper on top, but the big table is almost visible.

My paper recycling started in a bag, next to the big table, but is now a layer spread across the floor.

I'm creating a very special pile for things I should have done or that have to be done urgently. I'll add them to my work for next week. Which reminds me, work for today (before paper intervened) included a spreadsheet. I might get a start on that so that I can sit down for a bit (which is obviously why I'm doing this blog entry - I needed a cuppa!).

By the time I finish all this, I'm going to need a holiday. The only holiday I get this April, however, is the sort I used to get: intensive study period. During this time, I rather suspect I shall start to hide the table beneath much paper again.
gillpolack: (Default)
My birth certificate has appeared, magically, where I've kept it these last twenty years. After finding it in the wrong place, I obviously forgot I put it back in the right place. At any rate, I have three bags of paper to be recycled and only have one small stack to check through for other stuff. Also, I have all my work in piles, so I know what's urgent and what's not. I'm so carefully not looking at the urgent pile, or the bills I need to pay. It wasn't a wasted afternoon, but it was quite different from the one I had planned.

For the record, I was indeed born.

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