A cluttered mind

Somehow I ended up getting hired to teach two classes at the University of Washington starting this fall. 

In order to finalize the hiring process, I’m supposed to fill out some paperwork and bring it, along with my passport, to the UW processing office.

No problem!

well, except for this one little problem…

I totally can’t find my passport.

Right away when I realized that I needed it, I went directly downstairs and pulled out the “passports” folder of my filing cabinet.  Jay’s passport is in there.  So is CJ’s.  Mine, however, has gone MIA.  Hopped the red-eye to Paris and never came back.

I suppose I should confess that for the past 6 months I’ve been using a *NEW* filing system whereby I ignore my filing cabinet and perform the following detailed and rigorous 2-step process.

Step 1: Place papers in careful piles on the dining room table.

Step 2: In the event of a) dinner guests, b) my MIL, or c) the pile falling over, swiftly gather up the pile and carry it down to the “office” where I thoughtfully position the pile next to or on top of the other piles.

Step 3: Go through the piles in the office and file them into appropriate folders when I have time.

You’ll notice I said this was a 2-step process BUT then I listed three steps.  (Nothing gets past YOU!)

The reason for this little inconsistency is that I never do step three.  Never EVER. 

Because, as it turns out, step 3 is boring and I have far too busy of a life to spend even five minutes filing.

Which brings us directly back to the “My passport must be in Paris” situation, in which Paris stands for somewhere behind the big green ball or on top of the precariously perched shelf.  Or maybe underneath the turkey roaster.

 I COULD go through all the piles of paperwork and hope that I’d find it.

OR I could figure out how to get a replacement passport.  Which seems to me to be the better option.  Because although I am DEFINITELY going to organize that room very soon, I really don’t have time for that today… or even this week.

(I’m a very busy person)

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