Clutter of Treasures

Sorting through all of the junk in my bedroom was a pain yesterday.  It kept me awake until 1am again, wasting all of the sleep I had recovered the night before.  But, of course, it was good to look through all of the stuff.  For a while, I’d been saving my movie ticket stubs and they reminded me that I actually paid to see Twisted, 13 Going on 30, The Matrix: Revolutions and Ella Enchanted.  I also paid for a sandwich in this cafe about 15 minutes ago and I’m wondering where the hell it is.  Be right back.

Hmm…she says it’s coming up right now.  I saw cards that I’ve saved, and letters.  Louise sent me a coupla Christmas cards and Chad, too.  Birthday cards from my parents.  Mike and Aimee’s baby announcement and Paul and Jen’s wedding announcement were in there.  Every Jamiroquai and Air CD, plus dozens of others.  Fifty million cables and wires, old keyboards and AC adapters for mystery electronics, the sickle probe I bought when I was convinced I could perform basic dentistry on myself and videogames and movies I’ve borrowed from friends and forgot to return.  I also never realized just how many textbooks I’ve had over the years.  Lots of education texts, of course and environmental science and epidemiology, psychology to go along with the bio, chem and algebra refresher books passed down from my sister back during high school.  Seeing all of the teaching materials from grad school and from the CSU got me analyzing my own teaching now and wondering about what it was all for.  I think I use about 1% of the lessons we’d developed in the science-area teacher courses, but there was still some useful stuff in there.  I’ve just got to take the time to go through it (like, during the summer) instead of transferring it all from one folder to another.

What else?  Statements from the collection agency (remind me to change my phone number again), and work evaluations (all positively stellar).  Odds and ends: a playbill from the show I helped organize in Seattle, a fountain pen that I couldn’t seem to get writing, and photos upon photos.  Odds I scan them and get them all up on Flickr??  Slim to none…but the idea is there!

So now the clutter is gone and I’m primed to maximize efficiency.  I sound like Master P when I say that.  Come to think of it, why haven’t I heard from him in a couple of months?  Maybe it’s time to pull out a paper and envelope so I can add to his clutter of treasures.