AHhaha! Totally! My desks stay clean for ohhh... until I work on something. The moment I begin to work on something a scattering of papers, pencils, reference books, tea cups, hair accessories, and snack dishes appear!
It would drive me absolutely stratospheric. I really, really, can't stand a mess.
Actually, what I can't stand is two things: dirt and inefficiency. I'm continually trying to refine a system in which both things are minimized. The struggle against entropy is ultimately a losing one, however.
I like clean, pristine environments, but I can't function in them: as a partly-visual thinker, if something is tidied away, it's out of sight, out of mind, and will not get worked on. Lists do not help: I have to see it.
This is why I've just put a bunch of wire baskety thingies in my bedroom - they stack together like shelves, and I'm experimenting with putting my more-frequently-worn clothing in them - I can see them, much like I can see the piles of clean clothing on the bed and floor that I work from, only they look neater, because they're in wire baskety thingies.
I need to do the same sot of thing with my art/work space - I have to have references and tools out where I can see them, but I also need a clean workspace. Looking at the huge pile o'books and papers by and on the desk at the moment, it's mostly manga, books from PaperBackSwap and BookMooch that I acknowledged receiving and then left there, and manga. This is probably a sign to me I should use the two bookcases near the desk for manga and not art how-to books, which get pulled out, consulted, and put back, and thus can safely live in a case more out of the way.
My clutter means that I can find things - after the big Christmas tidy-up I lost several bits and pieces, including my phone charger. Also, a room where every surface isn't covered with Stuff is clearly a room with too much wasted space.
I don't mind putting stuff I'm not using away, but the sheer range of my interests means I'm more-or-less using things for several projects at once, and I want them all *out*! Mind you, part of my problem is not taking the trash out often enough, so there's a huge pile o'stuff in my living room at the moment, which is at least 50% cardboard boxes that need to be taken to the dumpster, and lots of my other random piles are partially composed of pieces of paper that need to be put into the trash and then taken out. Get rid of those, find a bookshelf on which to pile the majority of the books in stacks everywhere, and the rest of the place is cheerfully cluttered, not a mess.
...I need to send this to my boss. She thinks that desks should be clean at the end of the day, every day. I think that if I tried to clean all the mess off my desk at the end of every day I'd be working two hours overtime every day.
Wow. I'm printing out paragraph four and sending it to my mom (who bought me Martha Stewart's HomeKeeping book for Christmas and wondered why I was upset). I feel so much better about my mess now! :)
I'll have you know that I have just wasted an hour and a half of time that I should have been using to write a column by reading your Fuckbrain entries, because they are just that fascinating. :D
The son of my mom's neighbors has a mild case of Tourette's but he never showed any tics when he was over helping Mom move heavy objects, which always made me vaguely disappointed because other people exist only for my amusement I'm interested in the weird and wonderful things our brains do.
Obviously I'm just really strange, because I work better in clean rooms. It's soooothing. ^_^ (And there are strange habits such as pacing or stretching out on the floor with papers all around me... which requires a clean floorspace...) I also don't have much problem keeping my room clean, if left to myself. It's only when it's already messy that I have trouble. ^^;;;
P.S. Where do people find these articles? I always get them from the people who find them... so where do they get it from? O.o
I work better in clean rooms, but I also don't live in clean rooms, if that makes sense. I don't mind friendly clutter, but it often gets out of hand because I have procrastination and attention problems with tasks I don't like doing.
I got this one from a blog called The Daily Headache (http://www.thedailyheadache.com/), about living with chronic migraine. :)
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I'm going to the bookstore at lunch and getting the book.
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My desks stay clean for ohhh... until I work on something. The moment I begin to work on something a scattering of papers, pencils, reference books, tea cups, hair accessories, and snack dishes appear!
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Actually, what I can't stand is two things: dirt and inefficiency. I'm continually trying to refine a system in which both things are minimized. The struggle against entropy is ultimately a losing one, however.
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This is why I've just put a bunch of wire baskety thingies in my bedroom - they stack together like shelves, and I'm experimenting with putting my more-frequently-worn clothing in them - I can see them, much like I can see the piles of clean clothing on the bed and floor that I work from, only they look neater, because they're in wire baskety thingies.
I need to do the same sot of thing with my art/work space - I have to have references and tools out where I can see them, but I also need a clean workspace. Looking at the huge pile o'books and papers by and on the desk at the moment, it's mostly manga, books from PaperBackSwap and BookMooch that I acknowledged receiving and then left there, and manga. This is probably a sign to me I should use the two bookcases near the desk for manga and not art how-to books, which get pulled out, consulted, and put back, and thus can safely live in a case more out of the way.
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My clutter means that I can find things - after the big Christmas tidy-up I lost several bits and pieces, including my phone charger. Also, a room where every surface isn't covered with Stuff is clearly a room with too much wasted space.
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Huzzah to that!
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The son of my mom's neighbors has a mild case of Tourette's but he never showed any tics when he was over helping Mom move heavy objects, which always made me vaguely disappointed because
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The bit about liking what I've been doing, not the part where you're running late on a deadline. I hate that.
And I consider the entirery of my life to be for the amusement of others. :)
I hope you stick around for more Fuckbrain, for Sir Reginald stories, for...well, damn near anything that falls out of my head.
Welcome.
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P.S. Where do people find these articles? I always get them from the people who find them... so where do they get it from? O.o
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I got this one from a blog called The Daily Headache (http://www.thedailyheadache.com/), about living with chronic migraine. :)