Congrats, Andi!

Damn you all, now I want a bullet journal.

They're awesome! Seriously, I've never felt this organized, and this is practically the only organizational system I've ever tried that actually works with the way my brain works. The major modification that I made to the basic system is that I do weekly pages -- I make a two-page spread with a box for each day, and on Friday night (it made the most sense for my week to start on Saturday), I go through and figure out what work stuff I need to do on what day and plan that out, so that I don't end up doing nothing on Monday and then realizing I have eighty things to do on Tuesday.

I used to do pretty well with a pocket-sized calendar/organizer. And I definitely have random journals sitting around.

I'm sorry you were too cranky to enjoy your visit with Thessaly.

I am needing some kind of calm~ma for my family, with a side order of accept that it will work out ~ma. You may remember a month ago my nephew totally ruined a number of people's lives including his own, but most horribly the man who died as a result of him stealing a car and having a head on crash. Charges were finally filed. Leaving the scene of an accident with death, vehicular homicide, grand theft auto, reckless driving, driving without a license, and more. Crimes committed on his 18th birthday while partying. He'll be turning himself in today as he was out on a small bond while it was being investigated. No idea what the bond will be, but rather than putting up their house as collateral for a kid that frankly can not be trusted to not run away, we are expecting him to stay in jail until after his trial. The idea being that he obviously is going to have to serve time so he may as well get started in the downtown jail and have that time count toward his eventual sentence.

Just sick to my stomach because there are no good outcomes here. Just pain for all involved. DH is over at his brother's house now lending emotional support. I haven't seen my nephew. I don't think I can without breaking down.

Any kind of ~ma that will help, Laura.

I still use a Day-Timer. When I w/h/i/p/ get it out in meetings, people gasp like I'm their own personal Christopher Lloyd. I've managed to avoid a blackberry for work all these years, so I never made the transition. I do have an iPhone for personal use, and there is an app that hooks me into Outlook, but I've never felt comfortable storing personal appointments there.

Oh, Laura. That's so hard. Strength to you and your family.

All kinds of ~ma for your family, Laura. And thank you. I'm supposed to be going out with friends tomorrow and I'm starting to panic. I just want to hide in bed for a week.

So much ~ma to your family, Laura. Strength and courage and whatever peace and resolution people are able to find or make.

I have a Frankenstein Dayrunner-timer that I put together myself, with self-created inspiration pages, and sections for a two-page per week calendar, a monthly calendar that I carry birthdays and annual reminders forward from last year's. There's a now-defunct section for phone and addresses, a section with notepaper in case writing inspiration strikes, and sketch paper, ditto. There are business card holders, photo pages, zip bags for pens, erasers, rubber bands, and paper clips. A lot of it is no longer relevant, but it no longer goes everywhere with me, either. But it's open on my desk, and I do keep track of current things in it, and bind and store each year's pages, just in case I need to check back on something. I used to journal, and then bind those pages, the first six photos, here, but then I switched to bought blank books. Now I hardly journal at all.

I have my work outlook calendar and my gmail calendar and fb all on my phone, which is ideal for me. I usually need it to be on the calendar or I'll forget, although lately part of my problem is forgetting what day of the week or date it is anyway, so...

Hi all. Haven't posted in awhile. After several 12 hour days this week, during a heat wave, and my unairconditioned office, I have a real bad case of the "I don't want to's". So, I thought it was a perfect opportunity to catch up in Bitches.

~ma to those that need it, and job congrats!! Steph & Zen, the 300 posts that I just read had me thinking, dunno much about meds and stuff, but I do know you two are awesome people. How giving you are here in our amazing community, and how our lives would be different with out your insights and help. Focus on that. Because you do make a difference, and you are loved!

I will try and keep up in here, but I fear it will be like past times. As other said way up thread, FB is nice, but it's not the same. Just wish I had more time to stay current.

I'm teaching an online class, and my class was picked as one of the ones to do a pilot program with online proctoring for exams. The students take the exam on the computer, with the webcam on, and someone watches them the whole time. The first ones took it yesterday, and people will continue through the weekend. It's a mess. Just got an email from a girl who says she started the exam, then the proctor told her she had to go to a different room because the room she was in was too dimly lit. So she brought her computer to the other room, started the exam, and realized she'd left her calculator in the first room. She asked if she could go get it, and the proctor said no. (There were a bunch of options for me to check off for what was allowed during the exam, and I said that it was OK for them to leave the room for a minute for bathroom breaks, but apparently, since there was no "Go get calculator from the other room" box for me to check off, the proctor assumed that the answer was no.) So she did the exam without a calculator, and this exam needed a calculator.