The new organized me

You may remember last week I mentioned that I had purchased a new organizer/schedule book. Well here it is. As you can see, April is pathetically bare. I guess I'm not the social butterfly you thought I was. The truth is, ever since Grade 9 at least, I've been one huge pathetic failure at keeping a schedule book. Every year, at the beginning of the year, they would hand out a free schedule book and I was would use it and stick to it for about 2 days-maybe 3 days max. I never had one in university and last year I bought a nice Tintin one from Tokyu Hands which I think I got maybe 3 months use of before I completely forgot.

This time I'm determined to keep it going. My strategy is two-pronged. First, I bought one that is small enough to fit in my pocket. Anything bigger is too inconvenient to haul around. This way I can just whip it out of my pocket when I need to and scribble something down. Secondly, I use it as a backup wallet and carry about $80 cash around in it which ensures that I'm not going to just leave it in the bottom of my desk drawer.

Buying a schedule book at a hobby store is actually quite fun. There's a huge selection and then once you've picked out what you want they have all these things that you can buy to put in it, ie. train map, extra pages, calendar, ruler , pens, plastic inserts etc. It's quite fun actually. It's sort of like buying a stock car and then souping (sp?) it up with custom parts. I think the planner itself cost me close to 4000 yen and then I ended up spending another 2000 yen just on supplementary materials!

Still, when you have as spartan a life as mine, it's difficult to find the material to write in your schedule book. I almost cried this morning when my private class told me that there would be no class due to Golden Week on May 2nd because it gave me something to write in my book. Perhaps I should add it to my list of New Years Resolutions-all of which I'm keeping up with by the way (well except for that darned Japanese one).