My
calendar.
I may not be someone categorized as
an “early adopter.” I don’t always have
the latest technology. I live in the
land of “you try it first, and tell me what doesn’t work.” And eventually, at least in the second or
third wave, I will get the almost latest gadget. Except for the calendar. I just can’t seem to
go electronic with the calendar. Oh, I
have tried. I have the iPhone calendar
and Google calendar and virtually every virtual calendar recommended by the
aggregate app recommenders. But just can’t
seem to go there.
I must be able to touch my
calendar. I must be able to hold it my
grubby mitts and see all seven days of the week or all 28/30/31 days of the
month. And even then that may not be
enough. I have criteria for the paper
calendar/planner/organizer/journal which makes finding the “perfect” one nearly
impossible. And when I do it tends to be
bigger than a house. Well, that’s an exaggeration. But it’s bigger than my purse, and too heavy
to ever be stuck into my carry-on for travel.
And this is a beta-calendar, so I am not sure that I will adopt it for next
year.
And it’s me, I know it is. I don’t have that demanding of a
schedule. Well, I do, but not outside of
the classroom. And my classroom schedule
is so demanding I can’t even put it in my calendar. It exists on a chart in my office and directs
me each day to where I am supposed to be.
So if my principle time demand, teaching, doesn’t even make it onto my
calendar what is the deal? I have gone
back and forth between a be-all-do-all version, and multiple smaller individual
components. And this is nothing new – I have
been pursuing the perfect calendar thingee for years.
Confession. Giving some consideration to creating my own
planner/calendar/ organizer/journal.
Further confession. I do have some sense of how long that will
take me and I may not want to devote that much time and energy to something
that is so timeless that it only lasts a year.
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