Pre-School Cleaning Post

Really, I shouldn’t stop my momentum by typing this, but hey, shiny!

Things that Work
-Instead of leaving the room to put each thing I find out of place away, I have a single box that everything gets tossed in. Then, I can walk around the house putting these things where they belong
-Same theory in the room itself. Focus on one area, for example, top of the dresser. Anything that goes in the desk gets placed on top of the desk, to be dealt with when I get there. This keeps me from getting distracted in organizing the desk before the dresser is done. It does mean, however, that I have to do the whole room before I stop, otherwise, 3 sections are spotless and 3 sections are impossible to use.

Things that Don’t Work
-Facebook
-Livejournal
-Tossing all the knitting into a pile
-Making An Itunes Playlist to listen to while cleaning
-Going out with a friend at 7pm and not coming home until midnight, when I have to be up at 6AM and my bed is still covered in stuff.

Note-Taking

Note-taking is a touchy subject for people with learning disabilities. If you are documented with your school, talk to disability services to see what sort of help they offer when it comes to notes. There is a chance that you can get outlines from professors, help from classmates, permission to tape lessons, etc.

For those of us who are undocumented, for whatever reason (a post for another day), I have, over the years, and with the help of some books, advice of friends, and lots of trial and error, come up with a system, and some tips:

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.