Getting all my shit in one sock

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

p.s. I have a smartphone, but for lists I use the old fashioned route: a small pad of paper. They're totally portable, too...I can't believe how small they're making pads of paper these days.

Forget paper... I just carry one pen, and write things on the back of my hand all day. Extra-Fine-Point Sharpies make a mark without dragging on the skin too much, and yet wash off relatively easily at the end of the day.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by orthodoc

I also like a smart phone or PDA for lists and calendars. To get a handle on planning anxiety, though, you may want to write out three separate paper lists for where you want to be in one year, two years, five years. Then see what has to happen in the nearer term for the five-year plan to happen. You're already doing that, in terms of looking up courses and prerequisites. Once you see what you need, and the deadlines, you can move ahead. Sometimes colleges will let you sweet-talk them into taking your app for a summer course even though the official deadline has passed; depends on whether they've filled the course. Are there other programs that don't have exactly those prerequisites, or aren't as full?

And I like Infi's suggestion for day to day - small bites. Once you have an overview you can set priorities and accomplish one thing at a time. Cross that off and go on to the next.

You can do this.

It isn't that the deadline has passed as much as you can't matriculate in the summer and I think that impacts financial aid. I have to check with her nibs.

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Forget paper... I just carry one pen, and write things on the back of my hand all day. Extra-Fine-Point Sharpies make a mark without dragging on the skin too much, and yet wash off relatively easily at the end of the day.

You are such a nerd. I hope you realize how much your kids will suffer over that when they are old enough to realize. Get ready for

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

[monster]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Forget paper... I just carry one pen, and write things on the back of my hand all day. Extra-Fine-Point Sharpies make a mark without dragging on the skin too much, and yet wash off relatively easily at the end of the day.

I use ballpoint pens. I make sure they're not too scratchy and steer clear of the edges of the hands then you can easily avoid the notepad when washing hands during the day. I usually have about 5 pens in my back right pocket. (dumb)phone goes in back left pocket. notes and $$ go in the front pockets. I do not wear clothing without jeans-style pockets.

I sometimes wonder how many germs I avoid by not using pens provided to me by other people because I always have my own handy. Right before I drop my food on the floor then pick it up and eat it.

The main problem i have is if I'm too tired to transcribe the notes remaining at the end of the day from my hand to paper, because they're illegible by morning, or if I'm in a hurry and write messily or using abbreviations then I have no idea what I had thought of later in the day and it bugs me.

I have also recently taken to carryinng pads of paper, it's less inconvenient than I thought it would be. I have one on the dryer in the basement, one by my bed, one in my gym bag and one in the car. although to be honest I tend to use the paper hand towel at the gym.

My laundry is always done. Getting to bed early is my current project.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Forget paper... I just carry one pen, and write things on the back of my hand all day.

Tried that, but when I got home I wasn't in the mood, and couldn't read the fine print.

Foots, contact the man, tell him your tale, and charm your way into the Sorcerer's Apprentice job.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Tried that, but when I got home I wasn't in the mood, and couldn't read the fine print.

Foots, contact the man, tell him your tale, and charm your way into the Sorcerer's Apprentice job.

You mean the foam pope? That might work.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

You mean the foam pope? That might work.

Yes, he who must not be shaken.

[Perry Winkle]

I have an iPhone 4 I could easily part with. It's just a glorified alarm clock these days. (I went back to a dumb phone after 3 years with smart-phones.)