Half of the Brain :
the place all those random thoughts that flit through my head each day go to die

we did it

made a decision, made an offer, and now we have a contract... got the good-faith estimate from the lender and all for monthly payments $25 less than we're paying in rent now. . . woohoooo! I'm successfully getting excited about getting out of this sorry excuse for a town and moving on, it's the sheer amount of junk that needs to get done between now and then that leaves me cranky most days. (Well, that and the fact that I have some work deadlines I simply can not blow.)

and you know, it occurs to me... I always thought I was pretty good at multi-tasking, and yes, contrary to popular belief I can walk and chew gum simultaneously. Multitasking though really isn't multitasking, but instead it's compartmentalizing and as long as the compartments stayed small enough that I could switch between them quickly... all was well. The problem now is that all my current compartments are penthouse rather than studio sized. I'm surrounded by projects rather than tasks, and I'm finding that "multi-projecting" isn't working as easily. I swear, I find myself saying, I can't even think about "X" today because I don't have the four hours in my schedule to devote to it. Question: do you know anyone that has 4-5 hours of their day to devote to one task... i don't.

Come to think of it.... i used to be pretty good at time management as well. :-)

on an up note: it's premier week (now that's a good use of my time, don'tya think?) But hey, it could be worse, I almost wasted a perfectly good 2 hours this evening watching T3. It was tempting, if only because it would further compound for me the absurdity of CA's current political plight. I held the line, though, and instead i spent a marvelous evening filtering photocopies and adding to the pile in my living room loosely labeled "garage sale". Here's a pragmatic as well as a somewhat philosophical question: Any reason I just can't burn it all and start over from scratch?