Oh no...could it be? Maybe I'm not as organized and/or clean as I thought. I think of myself as a pretty organized and "withit" kind of person. I like everything to have a place and be in its place. This is what I think about myself anyway. Yet, I keep things in my car for days, weeks, who am I kidding..months at a time. I have piles of mail on my desk at home that I have barely glanced at. I drape clothes over a chair in my bedroom and only move them when people are coming over. When I do laundry, sometimes it sits in the basket for days and I just go get what I need out of the basket as I need it. It isn't even folded much less a priority to put it away. My work life is the same way. I try to stay on top of grading papers, doing lesson plans, and making copies, but so often I'm doing it at the last minute. Often times I head down to the copier to run a test through while the students are sitting at their desks waiting for it! I like my desk, at all times, to be neat enough that I can "see wood" but ofttimes that is not the case at all. It is not a question of "do I have stacks?", but "how many stacks do I have?" and on top of each other too...but I (usually) know where everything is! They say geniuses thrive on clutter, and I had always scoffed at that statement, because I was neat! (A little arrogance, I know...) However, I'm wondering if it isn't so much that geniuses thrive on clutter as those of us that have too much to do simply never have time to put it all away!
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