{"id":401,"date":"2013-08-15T17:38:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T17:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2015-01-19T23:12:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T23:12:35","slug":"catching-hold-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/15\/catching-hold-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Hold of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cA net for catching days… A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order\u2014willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.\u201d \u00a0– Annie Dillard<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Certain things, like calendars and lists need to be written down on paper for me, I am beginning to understand why. I think it might be the way that my brain navigates the bridge between long and short-term memory. I do not always exhibit the most fabulous powers of short-term recall; this is most noticeable for me when I have to deal with a lot of math. But it also rears its ugly head when I have too many times and dates to remember.<\/p>\n

However, I seem to have the ability to retain other types of information very well. Someone once explained this tendency to me in terms of my ability to store things in long-term memory in a quick and efficient manner. I also know that part of my success lies in frequently used, well-honed organizational skills or else my life would devolve into chaos. Chaos is fine, unless you\u2019re planning on getting something done.<\/p>\n

One tool I realize that I need to rely on extensively is my planner. Although I record most items electronically, a written record of appointments superimposed over a planned structure for the day\u2019s events, provides me with the clearest chance that I will meet my goals. Otherwise, like a lot of other creative people, I will just drift. Annie Dillard also wrote that a schedule can protect one\u2019s life from chaos. She called it, \u201cA net for catching days… A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order\u2014willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.\u201d<\/p>\n

(How_we_spend_our_days_is_of_course. (n.d.).\u00a0Columbia World of Quotations<\/i>. Retrieved August 15, 2013, from Dictionary.com website:http:\/\/quotes.dictionary.com\/How_we_spend_our_days_is_of_course<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A paper calendar is, for me, this lifeboat. As a student of library science, I am drawn to organizational tools and use them to keep control of my life. Although I like the concept of keeping everything electronically, I am also drawn to books. For me keeping a paper calendar is an essential part of life.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA net for catching days… A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order\u2014willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.\u201d \u00a0– Annie Dillard   Certain things, like calendars and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenmetal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}