I had the job. I had my lunch. I walked
home, thinking about everything I had to do. I had to get off of
lobby duty for that night and Sunday night. I had to get overnight
passes from my caseworker. I had to somehow get enough sleep to make
it through to 0500 Saturday morning.
Worse, it felt like things were
falling apart. I didn't have a way to diagram all of my
responsibilities. I carry around a notebook in my back pocket. I
bullet-point things to do and carry them forward, but I ripped half
the pages out when I was getting ready to climb the mountain.
Nowadays, I have to keep a lot of reference materials.
The trick with reference material is
that you have to be able to find it. The best way is to simply
collect all of the information you need to reference, organize it,
and create an index. If you're constantly adding reference
material--for example, discarding a list of potential employers in
favor of contacts with your new coworkers—then it's hard to
keep them up.
When you're combining them with a
log-style book that I keep, it's even harder. I've tried to put
certain pages aside for it. I've tried removing and making new pages
as things change, but it's still a rough system and I'd been losing
track of it for a while.
I was loosing my handle on things and
my concern was that it would trip me up if I didn't suddenly know
everything going on with my life in the next week immediately.
Instead of panicking, I ate my sandwich
and drank my gatorade instead.
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