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Cathy Bargar <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:52:22 -0500
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Falling on floor laughing out loud (FOFLOL) reading the posts on "paper
flow"! Barb Whitehead's system sounds exactly like mine! But mine is worse
now! When I had a job at WIC, and an office, and file cabinets, and all
kinds of officey stuff, I was actually extremely well-organized, on the
(totally baseless, in practice) premise that if I was out of the office
others should be able to find whatever they needed, easily, almost
intuitively, or at worst by actually reading the file labels. All my binders
& notebooks had an up-to-date list of what they contained right on the
cover, so no one could plead that "I couldn't find anything about...". Now
that I'm working at home, I just have heaps and piles and boxes, and no
spirit for mucking them out properly. (I attribute this depression to the
fact that I can't find my collection of breastfeeding art, and without those
beautiful madonnas to inspire me I have no power to chug forward. Yeah, I
know, I need to get a grip!)

So about handouts from talks, conferences, etc...it's so darn easy to lose
those individual pieces of paper. But then again, it's sometimes hard to
decide how to categorize information from a conference that's contained in a
single file or binder, because there might be lots of different topics in
there, but then again I'm so visual that I'm likely to remember that that
article on relactating is in that blue folder from about 4 years ago that I
spilled a little coffee on the upper left corner of because I get jostled
when that woman with the beautiful scarf came by and I had to go pee during
the keynote address and that was the day that my car got flooded in the
parking lot and I had to drive home a different way and on the way home I
passed the little parade where the cows were lying down by the side of the
road and........I was a lot better organized when I had a "real" office, and
my "system" had to be decipherable by others.

Cheered to hear that I'm not the only imperfect one out here!

Cathy Bargar

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