After watching the Super Bowl, I decided I would tidy up my desk. No, there’s no connection between football and a desire to clean up—I simply got tired of seeing the unorganized sprawl of mail, papers, and books. And it was also 7:30pm, so I had plenty of time on my hands.

It feels a lot better when things are tidied up, and really, it doesn’t take that much time to keep things organized. But comparatively speaking, it’s a lot easier to keep the sink free of dirty dishes than to keep my desk free of clutter, simply b/c the dishes should always end up in the same place. You take a dish, soap it up, scrub it down, rinse off the suds, and then place it on the dish rack. Pretty straightforward. But with things on my desk, I have to put some effort into thinking about whether I should keep it or toss it, where it should go, whether it fits in with a particular grouping of items, do I have enough space to put it there, etc. Sometimes it’s easier to say, “Eh. I’ll just take care of it some other time.” Hence, a messy desk, which does bug me and sometimes makes it harder to find something that I’m looking for. But at least for now, it’s been straightened up a bit.

In other news, you know you’re not so young anymore when you walk by a team of auditors working in a conference room and think, “Gosh, I wonder why they stuck their college interns here instead of giving them their own cubicles.” Or “Awww. Look at those college students working hard and looking all professional-like.”