Christina Scalise was right when she said, “Organization isn’t about perfection; it’s about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life.” I think that quote applies best to the idea of having an office space that reflects the mood and tenor with which you mean to work. It is for this very reason that a messy office bothers me. It feels like a naked reflection of my life.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been talking about getting order in the home life before I can really dive headlong into novel writing. There are no problems at home, but the deeper issue is finding that level of balance between home space and work space and constructing that space, both physically and mentally. Both require organization whereas the mental separation is often neglected. I have a friend who works at her desk beneath a basketball hoop where her kids play. This is clearly no way for a woman to work. My situation is not as bad, but I must confess to a small arsenal of Pokemon cards littering my office floor. Likewise, my mind has long been cluttered with the knowledge that I have children that neither have concern for nor are challenged by school. The middle one in particular passed out of the competencies for his current grade level last year. The school can do little for him as he did not get 100% on all of his areas (high 90’s) and he’s already a grade level higher than he is supposed to be, which is to say advancing him another grade level would be cruel and foolish. Instead I am left to work out a guerrilla curriculum for the kid, including opportunities for enhancement for his big brother whose math skills are above par and his atrophying in the math classroom while his reading skills slowly grow. I’m almost done with that curriculum and I almost have an organized schedule for the next 4 months, which means, once again, I am on the verge of finding that balance and that magical writing time.
That time is long overdue.
Some Thoughts:
- Well, I was wrong about the Giants. Again. At least management was courteous enough to tell coach C that it is his choice to stay or go, as opposed to laying the blame at his feet. The blame goes to the training staff in part, the turf in part, and the utter lack of a line on either side of the ball in the most part. Eli is trying too hard because he knows he doesn’t have time and that results in bad plays. He’s thrown more picks in the first 6 than he did all of last year. Eli Manning is putting up Sanchez numbers.