I defer sorting tasks until the evening. In the mornings I feel best able to tackle High Cognitive Demand (HCD) tasks such as drafting legal submissions. Mundane sorting is relegated to the evening when I am less capable. This creates a problem. I will be sorting documents in the evening and will come across a sheaf of old tax data, or a set of complex documents. I will not feel capable of addressing this material and will put it to one side. The end result is that the documents are once again buried beneath a mountain of paper and may never be seen again.
Category Archives: Insight
Domestic Archaeology
This post on domestic archaeology is a continuation of the Dormant Life post to be found here. I have inserted other materials from the Accident Log so that the temporal sequence of my experience is maintained.
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Dormant Life
I recently encountered evidence of a dormant life, the lost possessions of a person who lived here more than five years ago. That person is me.
The window replacement crew needed a big work space for full access to the windows. I had to relocate two book shelves, some other furniture, and a mountain range of stacked documents and TAQ submissions. Every available living room surface had become part of my file system (use of the word “system” as a descriptor is highly inappropriate). This ton of stuff had to move somewhere else.
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