I normally try to stay on top of my to-do list.  In general, my attitude is one of flexible inflexibility, meaning that I must have a plan, but if I do not follow it to the T then I am ok with that.  I can work with schedule changes; I just need a schedule.  I always leave room for the possibility of things not getting completed, because not everything is important.  For example, getting through my entire feed reader every day or writing a letter or tidying up my desk area are usually not tasks which rate highly on my list.  They’re the floaters; they get done when they get done, and I’ll just be happy that they do at some point.

However, I’m sort of at this point where most of what I have on my to-do list is minor or something done over time.  I don’t have the particular school-related tasks.  I have the whole resume thing to do, and I’m working on it, but everything else is largely, well, not of the important stuff.  Writing a post, returning overdue emails, writing overdue letters, reading, writing, &c.  So, I’ve noticed that I’ve been dragging my feet on it all.  My feed reader hasn’t been touched in days, and it’s getting to the point that I’m afraid to open it up.  I’ve been trying to get through a book, and I like the book, but I’m still just so exhausted from everything.  I’m so used to operating on the “only do what needs to be done” philosophy that I feel like all the little things have accumulated to the point of being overwhelming, and I’ve been dealing with them by putting them off even longer.  It doesn’t help that I’ve been a lot busier lately too, at least socially.  So when I’ve been home, I’ve just wanted to relax, but then that to-do list begins haunting me like a raven at my chamber door, and I do not like it.

I’m trying to again commit to the philosophy that it doesn’t matter when it gets done so long as it eventually does, but it’s difficult when faced with a schedule not containing the be-all, end-all sort of stuff.  I’m working on it, though.  Slowly but surely, I’m working on it.