I've always known I'm a little unorganized, but last night I realized exactly how unorganized. I have a paper due this afternoon, and I started on it around 10:00 pm last night. Luckily, it's a very short paper, but it's a paper nonetheless. I was chatting with family last night when I suddenly had a feeling that I had forgotten something. So I checked my Outlook. Nothing. Then I checked by planner. Nothing. Then I checked the calendar in the pantry. Still nothing. Thinking I must be wrong, I went back to chatting. But I couldn't get rid of that feeling.
Then it hit me -- I have to write a paper! Great. At this point, I wasn't too worried; after all, I've written papers in less time. However, a problem immediately presented itself when I couldn't remember exactly what the paper was supposed to cover. So I grab my notebook and start flipping through it. Nothing. No mention of the contents, no mention of the due date, not even the slightest mention of the paper itself. Luckily, I have friends and one of them was able to bail me out.
So what did I learn about this experience? First, me having (and using) Outlook, a planner, and a calendar do absolutely nothing to get me organized. Second, since I'm pretty sure I threw out my notes on the paper when I did a little "spring cleaning," I really shouldn't clean.
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