[life] Clone me

I am a single minded person. This can be a good thing, when I am trying to finish a project, or write a poem or make sweet love to my husband, but it can also be a bad thing, in that when faced with a myriad of tasks, all of equal importance, my brain locks up.

This is why I keep lists, because then I just go down the list item by item and one step at a time, it gets done. When I run out of notepaper and find that I am frozen into ennui because I can't buy notepaper because I have no notepaper on which to write "get notepaper," then it becomes clear that I have a problem.

Okay it isn't quite that bad. I don't, thank god, have OCD, just mildly OCD tendancies. But I do find it extremely hard to multitask. I always forget and boil the soup or leave the laundry sitting in the washer for three days. And when I have a large number of things piled up to do, it very nearly paralyzes me. I somehow end up taking 2 hour baths instead of buckling down and just getting shit done.

I have to work on this. But first I'm going to need some notepaper.