Shiny Girl is Productive

Today was a good day. Dropped off the family I nanny for at the airport far too early, then I took off running on the chores I needed to get done. With some help from the cleaning service, who will take some getting used to, (I left, and came back to everything I hadn’t dealt with piled very neatly in weird places), things are neat enough for me to be able to concentrate.

Classes start tomorrow. I have a certain amount of day-before-school nerves, which is typical for me. I put them to use grocery shopping, packing a lunch, and starting to write thank you cards for Graduation gifts.

I have finally learned my lesson, that you cannot prepare all of your school supplies before you know what the professor wants or expects. So I have 1 reusable folder and a matching colored notebook for each class. Add in my pencil case of writing goodness and my highlighter set, and we’re ready to go.

I am thinking positive, so this will go well.

Damnit.

Color-Coding

I’m a little obsessive about color-coding. I have notebooks and folders/binders in different colors for each class, with the color of the notebook and folder/binder corresponding to the highlighter color used to mark assignments down in my handy-dandy assignment book.

These colors correspond to the color of the calendar in ICal, as well, because, well, sometimes I go too far.

This is one thing that has really worked for me, though. It is easy to think, oh right, today is Tuesday, so I need my math book and my math notebook and my math binder, and then grab a binder and notebook and get to class and realize that your Shakespeare notebook will not be a lot of help. But if it is in your head that math is pink, and you need to grab the pink notebook and the pink folder, you, and by you, I mean, I, get the right notebook, and get to know what the hell is going on in class.