Recently I posted an innane blog about lists. The funny thing is, I've made so many lists, as of late, that my brain feels as if it is listing. Not even listening to Franz Liszt is helping the sensation that I've done so much right or left brain cogitating that I continually lean in one direction or another.
This has led me to ponder the act of list-making.
Many people, men and women alike, make lists, so this is not an isolated concept. Lists are created on a variety of surfaces - among the more creative surfaces I've utilized are my hand, toilet paper, paper toweling, paper bags from stores, tiny pieces of paper torn from envelopes and the like, paper table covers from wedding receptions and restaurants, concert programs, church bulletins, store receipts, the inside of gum wrappers, the bottom of tissue boxes, the outer margin of car maps, the multitude of those annoying small advertising inserts stapled into ALL magazines these days, and the tags removed from clothing purchases. I'm confident that there are more examples but with my listing head, these examples are not coming immediately to mind.
The categories of lists are as endless as the material they are created upon.
Not too long ago, I stumbled upon a company that makes little binders of mini lists. I ordered two types, each style containing three different list categories, so I had a total of six in all. I used these daily for a period of time until I decided that I needed more categories. I began subdividing each of the six flip sheets so that I had twelve sub-categories of list titles running at all times. When I realized what I was doing I truly scared myself and wondered what kind of mind would need to continue this pathological need to make lists.
(To my readers: This is a dirty little secret that I have tried to hide from my family. I'll thank the reader not to alert any of my familial members as to my list fetish.)
The question is now - where do I go from here?
I already own a controlling stock in the company that makes those cute, small (and large), sticky, posting-type notes. My office and work area is decorated with cornea-burning, electric-colored square and rectangular-shaped pieces of paper that self-stick to most surfaces. This terrific invention works well for marking pages of books or catalogs, but it seems to be yet one more method of classification, closely related to list-making.
I'll have to give this some thought - on where to go from here - which will probably cause my head to list to an even greater angle.
In the meantime, did I mention that different colored pens make great tools for sub-sub classifications on the sub-classified lists?
Just passing on a little tip.............
Ancora imparo
