The Pile Approach to Life

I might have mentioned it before, but it bears repeating: I subscribe to the pile approach to life. I have piles everywhere in my life: piles of laundry to put away, papers to check, papers to file, bills to pay, dishes to do, things to do and blah blah blah.

I only can attack a pile if I'm "in the mood." This has become problematic. I have not been in the mood to check papers, for example, for about 6 weeks, which is how long the term has been going on. I do not provide timely feedback to students. Oh well, as I've said recently, "Fuck it."

I have so many piles at school I've run out of counter space...i shuffle piles around until I'm in the aforementioned mood to attack them. They get bigger and bigger and I believe they actually are breeding. They have piles of dust on them, because the custodians never deep cleaned my room last year because we were working on the damn yearbook all summer.

But one thing you must know: DO NOT TOUCH MY PILES. The last secretary I had who thought she was doing me a favor by rearranging my piles found out the hard way to not do that again. I will get to them, eventually. Until then, expect fits of brilliance mixed in with bouts of melancholy....and meanwhile the piles sit.