I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes

The past several weeks have been much working, much thinking, little writing. A lot of my Rosh Hashanah pondering was about my goals for the year -- not so much spiritually as practically, although even practical goals have spiritual implications in terms of what turns out to matter most, no? I swear I am making incremental progress on many important fronts, but it's hard to see amid the vast chaos. The same could be said of my actual day-job work, of course, too.

In that vein, I've started experimenting with Getting Things Done -- kind of backwards, in that I spent a while reading around it, largely by means of thesimpledollar, then spent lots of time looking for a suitable (and free) online tool*, and only then actually sat down and read the book (borrowed from ablock). I have still not done a proper Collection, which they would probably say explains why my anxiety level around my Stuff [to do] has generally risen of late even while I'm spending more focused time tackling it. But, on the whole, a net gain. Like "how could I, of all people, have done without this system for so long?"

( *the online tool I found )

I suspect I was going to close this up with something pithy, but I have to go to work. :-}

Oh yeah, but: my friend Lisë from shul (who made my lovely birthday cake for my housewarming last fall -- oh, and DUH, was in the theatreatfirst one-acts this summer!) co-wrote a book with the tea sommelier at the Park Plaza, and the book publication party is tonight. I'm going for the last hour, 6-7pm, if anyone wants to join me! (It's an RSVP event, but I think I could squeeze in one extra person.)