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Water Cycle
Feb. 1st, 2006 07:37 pmI've gotten pretty good at drinking enough water on weekdays. If you just decide to have a glass of water (which I've decided to define as twelve swallows, often at a drinking fountain) every time you get up to go to the bathroom, then once you make yourself drink the first couple of glasses early on, the cycle feeds itself.
On weekends I get more easily distracted and am not so good at paying attention to water intake then.
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At work I've been organizing my e-mails. It sounds a little wacky, but I cut and paste them into word processing documents and edit them into easy-to-follow threads. Then it's easy to search them for what I'm looking for and to find all e-mails on a specific topic. Also, I don't have the problem my boss has. He organizes his e-mails into mail folders, like normal people, but he saves every one. Many times he has forwarded an old e-mail to someone who clearly had forgotten what they or he had said. But he gets kidded for using up so much space. No one knows how much space I'm using for my emails! And my method also means my e-mails will be accessible to my replacement as well.
However, the task is depressing; so many threads end unresolved. All we do is beg people for information, and lots of times we just never get it. I'm realizing I generally spend at least part of every day trying to understand something about how my system works. It's totally crazy.
On weekends I get more easily distracted and am not so good at paying attention to water intake then.
**
At work I've been organizing my e-mails. It sounds a little wacky, but I cut and paste them into word processing documents and edit them into easy-to-follow threads. Then it's easy to search them for what I'm looking for and to find all e-mails on a specific topic. Also, I don't have the problem my boss has. He organizes his e-mails into mail folders, like normal people, but he saves every one. Many times he has forwarded an old e-mail to someone who clearly had forgotten what they or he had said. But he gets kidded for using up so much space. No one knows how much space I'm using for my emails! And my method also means my e-mails will be accessible to my replacement as well.
However, the task is depressing; so many threads end unresolved. All we do is beg people for information, and lots of times we just never get it. I'm realizing I generally spend at least part of every day trying to understand something about how my system works. It's totally crazy.