Categories: life
Date: 12 November 2008 23:08:11
In one of the interviews I had I was asked the standard 'how do you organise your time with tight deadlines' question (or something similar). My answer was, emphatically, "Lists!". "I write lists for everything" I went on, as they seemed to be going with it. Then it was an example of the fact that I am, and enjoy being, an organised sort of person. I feel good when I have all the things I need to do written down in an orderly fashion, and when I know that there's nothing else going to sneak up on me that I forgot to do. And thats before you get to the 'being able to cross things off' bit.
Yes, I know I'm sad. Last weekend, prompted by Pippa (sorry, not figured out links yet), we did this online Myers Briggs style personality test, surprisingly I came out as 100% judging (this being the 'do you need to have everything organised or just go with the flow' part). Hmm.
Anyway, the last few weeks, with service writing, working, job applications and so on, I've been going a little list-crazy. Since the last interview there have been no more applications. I had a month or so till the next service, and I thought I'd have a break from the 'to do' and just relax a bit. Hmm, not so much.
There's this little matter of Christmas which just seems to be sneaking up on me, and the being away for it has meant all things like shopping and card writing are forced a little earlier. Although this year there's the excitement of joint shopping and card writing, which just makes it all that little bit more fun! It makes it slightly harder cos of the living so far apart thing, working out where the presents end up, when/how/to who we write cards, and having to do all this earlier cos of only having weekends, but its fun nevertheless.
I'm not sure where I was going with this. I started feeling the need to vent about the lists and the many things that aren't done on them. But then I seem to have got kinda distracted with the happy Christmas stuff (I think I shall be coming back to that, the next service I have is Advent Sunday).
Another reason why I like this blogging lark. I've managed to cheer myself up just by writing. Thank you for listening. Oh, and if you read any of that first bit and found yourself nodding and thinking 'sure, that makes sense', then you're one too. I am sorry.