Prosthetic Remote Controlled Tele-Hugger.

Let's see if this is actually a short post. That is the intent. Because I'm ready to sleep now, and get up early, and go back to work. I've been working straight through, on one important thing or another, since I woke up this morning at 5:30 am. (I know, later than usual: I let myself sleep in since it was a weekend ;-)

The main task I've set before myself: Get my life organized, streamlined, efficient. I'm using a methodology called "Getting Things Done" and I won't recommend it just yet since I haven't implemented it. But it seems promising. It's clean and simple and both intuitive and surprising. Good signs. But I'm still a little sore at my stint with Marie Kondo's "The Magic of Tidying Up" or whatever the title was. Though I still want to implement that fully as well, having only halfway done it. But I think she was a bit too strong on the throwing things out spectrum. I'm my alacrity to be zen-like in my simplicity, I ended up donating a set of non-fiction children's books that I now really wish I had.

I didn't realize I was going to be a teacher when I was doing this, and I also didn't realize that teachers are apparently required to be pack-rats, scrounging any supplies they can, from yogurt containers to yard sale books to cardboard boxes to used office supplies (got any manila folders you want to get rid of?)

Ah well. Really, of all the stuff I threw out, it is only the children's books that I'm wishing I hadn't. That's not so bad, considering how much other stuff I got rid of.

In any case. I'm trying to implement a productivity workflow that will let me capture all the things that need doing, so I can see them at a glance and do the most important one's first, and the non-important one's only when I have extra time. And not forget important things. And do it all in a relatively relaxed and stress-free and even fun way.

Also I have to do some of next weeks work this week since I won't have much time for it next week, as I'll be at a Tom Brown Jr. Class. Which I'll have to leave early, getting up around 5 am Thursday and driving 5-6 hours to get to class at 1 pm, and stay there until 6:30 pm. That's going to be a tiring week, so I need to get stuff done ahead of time.

Unfortunately, this new fancy-pants system is not set up yet, so I'm still kind of crushed under the weight of mysterious and unknown tasks that I intuitively know are massive but haven't had the breathing room to sit down and clarify and collect into one place. Not to mention the planning for the upcoming week of school. I'll be doing my first solo-substituting Tuesday morning, which means I'm getting paid for it (woohoo!) and also means it's just me and the para. We'll see how it goes!

Yup, pretty long. Wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to edit it. Perhaps I won't. All you get is a spell check this time. I hope it's comprehensible. I miss you, my friends. Being busy like this is lonely work, though it's exciting and fun. This is one of the reasons I love sharing a house with good friends: it's very time efficient. I get my social primate hit just by walking outside my door and chatting in the common area. Ideal.

Well, perhaps I'll just have to skype some of you. It's not as good, but it's way better than nothing. Skype still can't do hugs though. Well, maybe it can. I bet there's a prosthetic remote controlled hugger being sold somewhere in Japan. Where the person on the other end can controle the duration and pressure of the hug. Seems like something they'd do.

[after only about two minutes of searching]
Yup. Here you go. Robotic hugging phone prosthetic. Courtisty of Japan. I did not know this existed before. But I assumed.


It's kind of creepy, so here's something a little more settling:




Good night all. Much love.
-I0