Friday Five

1. Would you consider yourself an organized person? Why or why not? I think I'm an organized person. I remember I used to enjoy taking out all my syllabi at the beginning of a semester and put all the major assignments on to my calendar (sometimes in different colors) so I could see how screwed I was. I think I have some sort of fascination with organization itself and my soon-to-be former job helped me to hone my skills.

2. Do you keep some type of planner, organizer, calendar, etc. with you, and do you use it regularly? While in college, I always had a planner with me (because I loved to write upcoming events and tasks in it) and a calendar with my upcoming assignments and exams written in color coded inks on my wall. Now I only have a calendar, but I have recently purchased a new daily planner for law school.

3. Would you say that your desk is organized right now? My desk at work is no longer my desk, as I am training my replacement now. We deleted my name off of the phone extension - it was very sad. I no longer need a desk at home (for now) as I have this new laptop, which I like to use in bed, leaning against two pillows with the laptop resting on a pillow in my lap.

4. Do you alphabetize CDs, books, and DVDs, or does it not matter? My CDs and DVDs have always been in boxes in no particular order, but when I did have a bookcase in my old house, I had the books in order by author's last name in two sections: fiction and non-fiction.

5. What's the hardest thing you've ever had to organize? My job at my soon-to-be former job. The woman who held the position before me was awful despite the fact she was anal and obsessive about everything. I shudder to think of the way she organized her files on the computer and I tried my best to make my files comprehensible for someone NOT from that woman's home planet.

Zoom zoom

Yesterday, I asked my coworker to explain how to make sure a golf cart was ready to go, since I haven't driven one since last year with an experienced person in the cart. I didn't want to be the silly girl who can't figure out how to use a golf cart.

Turns out that cannot be avoided as I heeded my coworker's most important advice, "Don't push too hard on the pedal because you don't want to rocket out of there." I gradually pushed down on the pedal only to find that nothing was happening. I'm sure the outside operations guys got a kick out of the confused expression on my face as I kept pushing the pedal farther down. I wound up pretty much flooring the stupid cart to get it to start moving at a snail's pace.

And then I went off at a blazing 5 miles an hour to walk the head golf pro's dog.

Friday Five

I'm so mad that fridayfive.org shut down just as I discovered it.

1. If the world were to suddenly end right now, what do you wish you would have done?
Tell off the head accountant for my company. In fact, I don't think I can do it when I leave the company in fear of the repercussions my actions may bring upon my coworkers.

2. How many times do you hit the snooze button before getting out of bed?
I don't use the snooze button. I usually get up about 5 minutes before the time my alarm is set to go off. It's kind of annoying since I know I can't go back to sleep for just 5 minutes.

3. What cartoon do you enjoy watching from the present or the past?
Spongebob Squarepants. Come on... "Spongegar! Pagtar!!" If anybody knows how to download that episode, tell me!

4. If you could go to any time and/or place in history, where/when would it be?
I don't think I'd like to leave the time period of indoor plumbing, and the 60s through 80s don't really inspire me. I guess I'd stay where I am. I'm comfortable and I'm moving on to better things anyways.

5. If your life were a movie, what would it be rated and why?
R for coarse language and brief nudity :P I think my life movie would be tastefully done though...

Paperwork

I got another envelope from law school last week asking for a doctor to verify my immunization records. This was not good news. I don't have a doctor or a copy of my immunization records. All of this information was in my parents' house, and they're not speaking with me. The last thing I want to do is go home.

I wound up calling Rutgers last Friday because they were the last people I had to provide records for in that department and surprisingly, they were more than happy to help me. In fact, they told me I didn't have to go to a doctor at all; a copy of my records with a Rutgers seal was acceptable grad schools. They said it would go out in the mail that day and surprisingly, I received it on Tuesday.

Rutgers has never been so helpful to me, even as a paying student.