My first TrackBack! I feel like I've achieved some new level of blogging with TypePad. I'm geekily jazzed.

The multi-calendar looks ominous. I could not even hang mine on the wall. It had a mobile home and always flat so as not to overwhelm or intimidate or otherwise freak me out.

Wow, Krista, now that's planning! I have a move ahead too, but I can't remember to write appointments on a calendar. It's a wonder I can keep it all straight. Say, I noticed what looks like four months worth of blocks at the top of your calendar, but the bottom months look kind of stretched or sideways or something. Are those months when time gets kind of jumbled around (as in June-July-August)?

Actually, the one at the bottom is the back side of a previously scribbled-on 4 month calendar. You're righ -- it's perfectly shaped for those nether-time summer months.

holy crap!

I know. I'm a dork. I've learned to mostly contain this sort of thing to my personal life, though. A couple of people have described me lately as "so laid-back and easy to work with." Can you imagine?

I think they're lying.

Meep! not just the calendars but the scary pots of pens, the filing cabinet... the whole thing is only redeemed by the pup pic.

I have a calendar ritual: I buy those thick 365-day desk calendars, usually something like this, but this year I have The Onion's "Dispatches from the Tenth Circle" calendar. Anyway, I put the day's to do list on the back of the slip of paper for that day. I cross off the items as I get them done, and before I go to bed, I tear up the slip of paper. I get tremendous satisfaction from it. :-)

I also have a categorized to do list saved to my desktop, where I have tasks broken down by courses, teaching, projects (ex. 4Cs proposals, blog collection, progress toward degree (paperwork for the Graduate School, drafting prelims questions, etc.), and body/emotions (knitting and exercise go here).