Things to do...

I'm a list person. I always have been. I have never done really well with a planner. I've had them, but inevitabley, they get lost or substituted for wall full of sticky notes. One year at school I created a calendar on the wall above my bed, each day of the month was an 8x10 sheet of paper and I just kept lists on each day of things that needed to be done that day. Even now, there is an on going list in my mind at all times, for example:
The Parents List for Utah:
1) Snow shoes
2) Scissors
3) Sewing machine oil
4) Anchors Away (is that the one?)
Things I'd like to cook someday:
1) Crab Cakes
2) Sum Tom
3) Floating Island
Places I'd like to Visit:
1) Denver
2) Seattle
3) New York
4) Lincoln
5) Chile
I had a realization last week. This list fettish makes my college experience make so much more sense. I have a degree in English and because of that people just assume that I want to be a writer. To be completely honest, I don't want to be a writer. I studied English so I could be a reader and an analyzer, not a writer. I've never felt like I had a good explanation as to why, but I think I might have done it. I don't think in smooth coherent statements. I never really did. Ask Quinton. (He was a friend of mine in undergrad that was on a one-man crusade to perfect my transitions-he may have almost succeeded in my senior capstone project.) I think in horribly disjointed ideas that rarely relate to each other. Lists are the easiest way to connect these ideas. Stack them on top of each other and throw in a bunch of bullet points and they don't have to flow nicely-they're not supposed to. IT'S A LIST FOR PETE'S SAKE!!!
Having stated that, here's my to do list for today:
1) run
2) clean off spare bed
3) laundry
4) clean off cedar chest
5) catch up on my reading
6) take a nap
7) enrichment
That's about it...wish me luck.