I confess to being one of those persons who has great ideas about how organized her life should be but often lack the discipline, the time or the mood to put them into action. Another of those things that theoretically I defend but often really really mess them up in practice is establishing priorities.
I'm quite a perfectionist and, being such, I always do things the hard way. I like my foundations set properly before I decide to build, which often leaves me so exhausted even before I start something for real.
Today, on the other hand, I went practical, threw perfectionism aside and, after rolling up my sleeves, set myself to prepare for tonight's seminar. I did all the printing and set myself up to do all the reading, when, an hour before I was supposed to leave the house, my sixth sense kicks in and tells me to go check the students' platform... And that's how once more (twice this semester) I avoid doing 20 something Kms in heavy traffic to have a lesson that I'm not going to have after all.
I do love this part of me that I often call my "guessing finger"... I love the way that I can predict certain things with a severe degree of acuracy that often leaves me stunned. I particularly love it when it helps me avoid doing something like catching my daughter from school in the middle of her lessons, drive down faster than advisable due to lack of time, only to realize that all was in vain and that I should just have stayed home and packed my bags for the upcoming weekend retreat. I also love it when the news come, via guessing finger, that I don't have to leave my sofa, my blanket and my cup of tea, to go freezing, coughing and sneezing to a often boring lecture on whatever it is that it ends up being about. Yay me!
On the other hand, I get utterly outraged that, the news coming so late, aren't sent out to the recipients in a more effective manner. This way, one has to almost double check the students' platform every time one is about to leave the house, just in case a mad professor caught rabis on his way to class and couldn't make it there safely without bitting any of us.
Since I'm in good spirits - having finally talked to Santa about getting my daughter that extremely expensive present she's been asking for so long and being on the verge to leave my four walls for a weekend getaway where no one is likely to get to me - I'm going to call this a tie and bugger off to do some shopping and some packing.
Have a great evening everyone! And a particularly calm, relaxing and fun weekend! I know I will... ;-)
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