Occasionally I'm callous and strange.

Willow ,'The Killer In Me'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Sophia Brooks - Mar 13, 2007 8:44:53 am PDT #6831 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I have a very good memory for clothes, but then, it is part of my job. I usually remember costume plots by holding each piece of the costume in my hand, in order, while reading the written out list. I can usually memorize a normal size show after doing that once. Other things, not so much, although I can do props that way, too.

My students think it is craxy that I can do a costume check in after the show without a list, for the most part. I kind of think it is weird that they still need a list after, like the whole run of the show.


Jesse - Mar 13, 2007 8:51:59 am PDT #6832 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Man, I never remember clothes, mine or anyone else's. Except for a very few particular times/outfits. Good thing most of my clothes are boring, because now I'm paranoid about other people noticing how often I repeat stuff!

Thinking about memory, though -- someone at work was giving me the "touch things only once" shpiel about email, and I was thinking about it, and the truth is, it's good for me to go through most of my emails more than once, because I'm expected to know a ton of stuff in my head, and that's how most of it gets there. If I read the email and file it immediately (even after acting on it), I'll never remember that it got done.


bon bon - Mar 13, 2007 8:52:23 am PDT #6833 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Huh, Bravo acquired TWoP. [link]

Maybe they won't have those atrocious Yahoo ads anymore.


bon bon - Mar 13, 2007 8:54:20 am PDT #6834 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Thinking about memory, though -- someone at work was giving me the "touch things only once" shpiel about email, and I was thinking about it, and the truth is, it's good for me to go through most of my emails more than once, because I'm expected to know a ton of stuff in my head, and that's how most of it gets there. If I read the email and file it immediately (even after acting on it), I'll never remember that it got done.

You have everything in your head and it's stressing you out! You need the David Allen GTD book. Or try using flags in outlook, that's how I keep track of outstanding requests.


§ ita § - Mar 13, 2007 8:56:45 am PDT #6835 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does filing mean you never look again? If so, you might as well delete.

There's filing and there's filing--one organisational seminar I went to suggested filing by deadline until the email was fully dealt with, and then filing by whatever your dominant system is.

You can also file things normally but mark them unread so they still stand out as requiring some sort of attention.


Jesse - Mar 13, 2007 8:58:37 am PDT #6836 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm telling you, I need to have everything in my head. It's not about what's outstanding, it's about what's already happened. I go to meetings and am expected to be able to report not only on the current status of every single thing, but details of stuff that happened up to a year ago. (I haven't been here a year yet, but that doesn't phase any one.) I can't carry that much paper around.


Jesse - Mar 13, 2007 9:00:47 am PDT #6837 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Perfect example: someone just came in, looking for an answer to a question that's not technically in my area, but I did have a (filed) email from December that told me who the person to ask was.


§ ita § - Mar 13, 2007 9:21:00 am PDT #6838 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I did have a (filed) email from December that told me who the person to ask was.

So filing is not a problem, then? I was reading into "If I read the email and file it immediately (even after acting on it), I'll never remember that it got done" more than anything else.

I kept much of my emails because of CYA. There were moves at hand to make sure we didn't keep more than a certain volume or before a certain date, but I need to save that information somewhere. It'd be harder for litigators to find it if I printed it out and stored it at my desk, but the whole point of my job was to promote a paperless desk.

Push comes to shove--if it's harder for me to do my job without it, management has to accept the effect of the purges and not hold me quite as accountable.


Jesse - Mar 13, 2007 9:31:16 am PDT #6839 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

What I meant is, I like to go over the email a couple of times before I file it, so it sticks in my brain. Usually I try to go through everything on Fridays, and file things that had been ongoing during the week (but are now done) then.


§ ita § - Mar 13, 2007 9:33:59 am PDT #6840 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If emails are action items (and relatively simple ones), touching them once seems plausible. If they're an exchange of information, it seems perfectly reasonable to file or memorise the info, either of which imply further touching unless you're hella good. In ways I've never been.

All this reminds me that I really need to clean out my personal inbox here.