January 25, 2010
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I keep my desk messy
My desk looks like a tornado hit it. Hard. I’m completely ok with that, though. When there is a lack of work, if done properly, it gives the appearance that work is being done. There are documents that have literally been on top of my desk for 3 weeks, and when I’m doing actual work, they still sit there. You can never appear to have too much work.
There are random post-it notes on my desk, once used for actual work, that I had taken notes on at some point. When I take notes very quickly, the writing is usually spaced out pretty good. However, due to my disdain for waste, they will sit there until they are completely covered in ink. If you grabbed one and started looking at it, the text goes in 8 different directions, and you would be hard pressed to figure out the relationship between a whole bunch of fractions and [I just realized that nothing else on the paper can be written here, even in a vague manner, so that's the end of that example].
Technically, if done right, most of the work that I have to do can be done without the use of physical papers. A good chunk of it can either be done away from the desk, or on the computer in such a manner that nothing physical needs to be produced, save for proofreading.
Now, there is a balance to this. The paper can’t just be thrown there, which is pretty much the manner in which it got there, Things have to be stacked and offset in ways to show that they were lovingly placed in their current position, in an attempt to denote order and importance.
After writing that last paragraph, I took a look at my desk, and believe I’m violating that rule. Time to get to work.
