January 16, 2004
Deep Pile Plunging
This, you will be relieved to know, is NOT MY PILE, charming though it is.
In search of an important piece of paper with bookkeeping notations upon it, I did some deep pile plunging. Secretly, I hoped to unearth "Scattered". No luck yet.
In spite of my piles of disorganizaton. quite unbelieveably, I rarely lose things. I have some kind of eidetic spatial memory, that allows me to picture the place I last saw my desired. That memory spans years. For example, I was able to locate a gas mask that hadn't been used (rather, toyed with) for fifteen years, in less than five minutes last Halloween. If I did not have this idiot savant ability, I would have a tidier personal space, since I would have tired long ago, of looking for misplaced objects.
Did you know that good spellers picture the word they are trying to spell in their minds, spellcheck it visually and then proceed? Those people who cannot picture the word, are terrible spellers. The kind odf spellers that cannot use dictionairies because they can't imagine the first three letters of the word they are trying to spell. Ask a person to spell something and see if they look up. According to the Neurolinguistic Programming people, if they do, they are experiencing a visual image.
I once spent a week immersed in Neurolinguistic Programming Land, where I was told that I am too content oriented. I probably am, whatever that means. NLP is nifty twist on hypnosis. Sadly, what started out as a therapeutic tool, seems to have been voraciously consumed by the high powered sales community. They use it to reach self serving ends. Forewarned is forearmed.
Denoument: I bet you thought there wouldn't be one. Had an idea of how to organize all those little clippings and scraps of paper that contribute to my paper peaks. Use transparent, 8 1/2 by 11, sheet protectors with three ring holes. Slip a clip into the protector and put it in a three ring binder. I shall start now. Before and after photos to follow - maybe. I put my printed photos in them too. Makes a nice little album/portfolio.