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     My life has a special ebb and flow of organizational and cleaning-directed energy.  The moon has phases, and so does the state of my room.  Last summer, I embarked on a journey of cleaning, rearranging, organizing, and purging (though not in that order).  What I have learned is a very important lesson in keeping things tidy:      Buy organizing stuff.  Preferably attractive organizing stuff.  Just do it.      Over the years, I have tried various methods of containing and organizing things.  Many of these methods involved using those giant 10-reams-of-paper boxes that my workplace was constantly getting rid of, or using those plastic storage tubs.  I will not sneeze at free boxes, and the giant plastic storage bins are very useful in attics, garages, closets, and storage units, but there are some problems with using these methods as a long-term solution: 1.  They are ugl...

     I want to see something good.  I want to see a new movie-- the plot of which I don't already know-- that will be well-made, exciting, non-offensive, with likeable characters.  I do not want to see a movie that I feel like I have to fast forward multiple parts, a movie that feels like I am watching a video game, or a movie where the characters feel more paper-thin than the most overused of stock characters.      I guess I'll be waiting a really long time, then.  It doesn't look like many of those are coming any time soon.  Most of the movies that come to the theater I either don't think I'd feel good watching, or I don't think I'd enjoy watching.  They say "Don't judge a book by it's cover," but the average movie trailer isn't a cover, it's more like an interview.  It is made so that you can judge the movie.  Why would you go see a movie if you didn't judge that it was worth seeing?  Only, i...

     I remembered today a line from Cranford (a good BBC miniseries; definitely recommend) that I thought was interesting.  One of the characters describes a method of diary-keeping where you write in the morning your expectations of the day (I will hit snooze thrice, eat breakfast in the car, go to work, come home, get the mail, eat dinner, hopefully do laundry. The end.), and at night you write about your day as it happened.  I think this would be a fun way of keeping a journal, because it would show just how unexpected life is, and just how many things happen that we do not expect.  Not every day will have a crazy story, but a lot of days will have unexpected blessings and adventures.  When an old acquaintance reaches out and you guys talk for the first time in almost a year, write it down!  When your sister sends you a stick-figure drawing in the mail for no special occasion, put that one down, too!      Writi...