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Job Interview

I have to get ready for a job interview, so I won’t be writing up a full post.  Instead, I have to polish my shoes.  I didn’t know people still polished shoes.  But mine came home from a trip all scuffed up from something else in the suitcase, and the look like crap, so polish [...]

Organizing, ADD, and Allergy Hell

I haven’t been updating either of my blogs much lately. This is partly due to drama in my offline life — like one in ten Americans, I am unemployed and looking for work. I’m spending most of my time these days sending out resumes and coverletters into various black holes, where I never [...]

ADD-Friendly Computing: Macintosh or Hackintosh

I’m an artist in my offline life, so I have a ton of graphics files on my computer.  Every time I touch it I receive ominous warnings about how my start-up disk is is almost full, and I need to delete some files Right Now or everything will go boom.

Fortunately, I recently inherited a new [...]

I prioritized!

Managing a to-do list is a complex task.  In order to make the list, you need to remember or notice what needs to be done.  Then you need to remember to do it.  Ideally, you also prioritize your tasks — you figure out whether one task needs to precede another, like grocery shopping before cooking, [...]

ADD Hack: Buy a low-maintenance car

I’ve often complained about how boring my car is.

Like many people with ADD, I’m prone to speeding.  When I’m driving fast, I feel more engaged with driving, as if the high speed forces me to pay attention.  My car, which is an under-powered late-nineties Toyota sedan, has often been a source of frustration for me.  [...]

Guest Blog Post on Clutter Control Freak!

A few weeks ago I was invited to do a guest post by Eva Wallace over at Clutter Control Freak, the organizing blog associated with Stacks and Stacks.  Stacks and Stacks is an online catalogue of organizing solutions, and I’ve often found that they have obscure products I just can’t find anywhere else.  I was [...]

ADD and Filing: Taming the Paper Tiger — Part III

Just to bring you up to speed on my filing adventure, I have cleaned the Agean Stables sorted through two years worth of papers, and I have determined that I have some categories that are huge precarious stacks of paper, and others that are a single sheet.  I’ve dealt with my biggest category already — [...]