surprising bursts of productivity

[da]

Today is going OK; I think I'm less sick than yesterday. But perhaps I should get sick more often- my den is much more organized now.

I came home after lunch yesterday because I was fuzzy-headed and everything I had to do at work required concentration. I tried to nap but the Sudafed made me jittery, so instead I started in on cleaning my desk.

By 5:30, I had:

- gone through all my debit receipts and found the health-insurance reimbursables
- sorted all the stacks of paper on my desk and made new folders for the things that needed it
- printed labels for all the folders that needed them (a la Getting Things Done)
- found room for the folders I had sitting on the desk, under the desk, and on the floor
- tossed a thick stack of paperwork I know I'll never need or want
- sorted through half of the old files and either tossed or refiled the categories I had made over a decade ago that don't make sense any more ("Personal records" is my favourite bad category- it included school grades, medical records, and letters excoriating credit-card companies. Ideally, my new categories will make sense when I'm well, or six months from now.)

By the time I went to bed at 9:30, I had:

- removed the last cable-clutter from my desk, by moving the USB hub off to under the desk.
- tossed more old paperwork
- taken down a few old photos and figured out what I wanted to replace them with (mostly).
- framed my favourite magazine cover to bring into work

I don't know where that burst of clutter-reducing energy came from, but I'll take it. Yay clutter reduction!