Where's that notebook?

[kate_schaefer]

I have lost a notebook.

I am sure it's somewhere in my house. I remember reading it not very many months ago. It's not all that long ago that I wrote in it, just last summer and fall. It still has blank pages in it.

It has everything I wrote during my trip to England last spring, every word of first draft from last summer's Write-a-thon, very little of it transcribed and backed up. Why would I need to back it up? You can still write in physical notebooks during power failures, and you can read them by candlelight.

I will find that notebook. My house will be considerably tidier by the time I do.

Comments

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, "tidy as you look for something." I got that from Jane. My old search algorithm was "toss everything around in a frantic haste." The first time I tried Jane's suggestion I was amazed at the results.

Anyway, I surely hope you find said notebook.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I don't know how old I was when I started using looking for things as an opportunity to create more order. I was certainly an adult.

When I was a kid, I think I used disorder to try to create boundaries between myself and the rest of the family. I am sure that you, as another kid in a five-kid family, know why I felt the need to create some boundaries. Now I have miles and miles of geography between me and those people who were so demanding and unbearable, and I wish I could easily reduce those miles. I don't want to get rid of the miles altogether, and I'm not at all sorry that I made the decision to move so far away, but I could do with a distance of two or three hundred miles instead of two thousand.

And I'm sure I can find the damn notebook.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I understand you about the "two or three hundred miles." This isn't helped by visiting Madison, WI, (pretty, albeit flat) in late May every year, the most pleasant time of year for that part of the country. Maybe we should visit it in late August sometime, or late March.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Found! Unfortunately, the house is only somewhat tidier rather than considerably tidier, but I still have tidying motivation, since a grandchild is about to visit for several weeks and we'll be hosting a Clarion West party pretty soon.

Yes, visiting the midwest in August or January can really reduce one's enthusiasm for spending any time in the midwest. Mosquitos and tornadoes in the summer, chillblains in the winter!