I'm So Busy ... And It's Sad

Cutter's Log - Stardate 2102.13.30
Current Song - Promises, Promises (Naked Eyes)

The clock is chiming midnight.

Normally people are going to be at this time. However my tasks are still incomplete. This, my friends, is what it's like during the worst couple of weeks of my life.

I was going to write a blog entry last week about this, but never had the time to. I didn't have the passion to.

In mid-March, I flipped the wall calendar above my computer screen from February to March. That's how bad this has become.

However, with each new day comes more and more tasks to complete. The slate is never clean. I try to take one or two days to complete everything and see a clean plate, but more and more things just keep coming up. No wonder why I have trouble prioritizing things.

I'm taking the weekend off of sports, and this decision came just before typing this sentence. However, I truly feel that I will feel much better once everything has been cleared and I can start LIVING once more.

Seriously, the past three weeks have been a nightmare: laying down on my bed lost in thought, and when I was not lost in thought I was thinking about how to tackle this monster that is the task bin.

But hopefully I won't be buried again.

Someone told me that I should make a list of things to do. Since I'm so buried in this mess, I thought it would be wise to list them in this blog entry from first priority on down.

Keep in mind, some things take longer than others. I want to get the things I know I can do quickly out of the way first. (If I do the longer tasks first, then the numerous little things get piled up at the end).

So here goes:

---after this blog entry, I will:

1. Post one more picture to the Sterling/Rock Falls Facebook group
2. Look up next week's assignments for NISB
3. Sort out my journalism notes bin and put them in my filing cabinet
4. Take Dan's practice calendars off my office wall and throw them out
5. Clean my catch-all desk drawer
6. Organize my reporting gear and put it all in my bookbag
7. Put my LP-Sycamore softball story on the NISB Facebook page
8. Clean up the small mess of things next to my bed and put them somewhere
9. Sort out my clothes in my room (jeans with jeans, pj's with pj's, etc.)
10. Contact this local shopper newspaper for article writing possibilities
11. Fill my car with gas at Shell and ask an important question
12. Go to the bank and get help in organizing my accounts
13. Make a call to one of my writers for an assignment for Saturday night
14. Revise a pair of columns that I have had on my tackboard for quite some time, and plan a release date for them
15. Plan my week using my weekly whiteboard
16. Post something on Facebook to the tune of auditing baseball cards
17. Do the McDonald's reciept theory once again
18. Get on the scale and write up a blog entry on trying to get healthy once more
19. Re-think the job inquiry process and organize places to apply for online
20. Create a general online resume, so that I won't write 2 different things on apps
21. Start the online app spree and inform each place of it
22. Another round of calls
23. Plan daytime trips to potential job places if necessary
24. Go to RFHS for its baseball game against Winnebago (this is Tuesday afternoon)

Hopefully everything can be done in a timely manner.