Okay, Monday. Bring On the Appointments Put Off for Weeks & Take a Break from Micro-organizing Files & Materials

I'm in total organization mode, but whereas it once was getting piles into manila folders and into cabinets, now it is all digital. Click and drag. Copy and paste. Duplicate. Pull. The whole goal is to get all into their right places. But I can say, organizing on a screen is just as tedious and time consuming as it is in physical spaces. I just wish there was game music that went along with it and superstars flashing across the screen when I finished each task (sort of like the noise of an arcade or casino).

Can someone say dossier time?

Actually, I spent yesterday morning packing boxes with Chitunga getting him ready for his cross-country trek. Today, he's in Des Moines siginng leases today - he flew there last night. Rather amazing to see so many of my missing plates, Tupperware, cups, mugs, and glasses in his cupboarsd. I sent them along, because who doesn't love a piece of home with them wherever they go. 

And I'm also thinking about grandma Vera's table. It left Sherburne, came to me to Louisville, then back to Syracuse, then to Connecticut, from Stratford and to Stamford, and now it will be heading to DeMoines. It's such a beautiful piece of furniture (antique) and he's taken great care of it. I still have four of the 8 chairs, but he's a minimalist. He doesn't take more than he needs.

Um, but he's accumulated a lot. I have to put it in perspective. At 27, I was partying like it was 1999 at the Brown School. I lived in St. Mathews, having fled Old Louisville, and I was looking for any chance I could fly to teach overseas during the summer. At that age, I was accumulating, too. Of course, I made 1/10th of what a man in his position makes. He knows what he's doing. 

Sometimes I hope I do, too.