I have no idea if I'm spectacularly disorganized or spectacularly ambitious. It's probably both. On the ambition side, there are the two primary web sites at varying levels of completion, the two or three nonfiction books partially outlined and mostly thought through, the foundering novel and its even less considered screenplay both nearly abandoned due to higher priorities. And then there are the things I want to read. These are the things outside of paying work, parenting, exercise and social life.
I've detailed (as much as I care to) the writings before, but the readings are interesting: I've just set down Proust's Swann's Way (volume 1 of In Search of Lost Time which is better known as Remembrance of Things Past). In my backpack sits another book I'd planned on enjoying today at the coffee shop mid-way through a bike ride (the bike ride having been abandoned due to continuing cold and wind): Proust Was a Neuroscientist.So I was sitting here on my sofa this morning reading in the quiet -- just the dryer working and muffled voices of snowbirds four floors down on the cold, windy beach, and somewhere in the first chapter of Swann's Way I had a thought I wanted to write down. Maybe Proust spawned an essay topic or the first few ideas in a longer piece. So what I did is I meta-bookmarked Swann's Way, holding my page open with the weight of a bookmarked book entitled Meditation Made Easy.You see... I'd bought a couple of books on meditation thinking I'd use mediation to get myself more organized and structure my time so I'd be able to actually get one or two of these projects finished. And if you consider bookmarking to be an organizational quality, then they've helped out a lot.TT
