So besides the fact that today is my birthday, my day hasn’t been too good. But I’m betting I’m making way too big a deal out of something so small…
Yesterday I misplaced my agenda sometime midday (between before lunch and the beginning of 7th hour). I was freaked out, but realized I probably left it in the choir room. So hey, I go looking there, but I didn’t find it. This morning, I went looking again, but it was no where to be seen, and I also checked the lost and found, but no avail. And I performed the same routine after school. So I’ve concluded that someone is either playing a large joke on me, someone stole it, or I totally left it somewhere I don’t remember (though I’m %99 percent sure I last saw it in the choir room). Another odd fact is that last year, the choir room was the worst place to leave things, because theft was not all too uncommon. That’s part of the reason they now have guards at the exits during lunch…so no one can venture into unlocked classrooms and steal something.
Regardless, I’m pretty dang mad about:
a) My stupidity at misplacing my agenda,
or
b) Someone stealing my agenda or playing some cruel joke.
How wonderful it has made my birthday!!! /sarcasm.
I had MANY MANY MANY things recorded in that nice little book, to keep track of everything (school work, extracurricular stuff, church events, etc, etc). Now I feel as though I don’t know what I’m doing tonight or this weekend, because I can’t check what I wrote down. Hopefully, if I don’t get mine back, I’ll be able to reorganize my new one as well as what I had my lost one (re-collecting dates and appointments, etc), which will be a royal pain anyway.
So I’m left thinking: “What’s happening here? Why have I become so attached to a stack of papers bound together?” To me, I hate the way people are stuck to their possesions, but now I realize how much of a culprit I am. So I’m trying to figure out ways to organize myself and my mind, to be less reliant on such an unreliable (lose-able, stealable) object and instead working more out of just my mind, something that can’t be confiscated. Maybe I can figure out a nice system of remembering things…but then that will be hard. Or I could just write things down in a book and be paranoid about losing it? It’s a toss up, I guess.
What do you think? Are their ways to become less connected to an agenda or other organizational tool? I just don’t want to be so tied to something that I break down and can’t function when I’m without it.
Thanks for reading. Comment me up some ideas if you have any…or just comment anyway.
ps. I found this site of pretty cloud pictures to brighten my mood a little… The Cloud Appreciation Society.
I don’t use my agenda at all, except for like one class. Everything stays in my mind, or if I have homework, I put it in the homework section of my notebook. The agenda doesn’t help me and I probably wouldn’t use it if it did. All I know is that teachers need to stop grading the dang things and let kids organize themselves the way they want to.
So I guess you were pretty attached to the thing. There’s not really any advice I can give. If your attached to things like that and can’t go without them, that’s your own problem. But if you can go without them and still function, do it. I’m pretty sure it’s not that hard to get less connected to an agenda and find other ways to organize; but hey, what do I know.
I used to be like, bah! Agenda! Who needs it? But then, I took classes that require more out of me, and involved myself in a lot more activities, and now I use it a lot more. But, I write (important) things down in more than one place so I can be sure to have it somewhere.
Kodi, your teachers grade your agenda? What in the world? I’ve never had that since like seventh grade…
David, buddy, that stinks. I’d still feel discombobulated (sp?) if I lost my agenda, even though it’s not my only source of organization. I hope you find it soon. But on the bright side, Happy Birthday!!! 😀
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Heather:
No teacher has actually graded my agenda, yet, but it has to be happening. I’ve heard many teachers threaten it. My teen topics teacher said that he may just walk around one day and randomly pick up agendas and grade them. Our speaker of freshmen orientation, I can’t remember his name; he teaches physical science. He said that he does randomly pick up agendas and grade them. ?
They lie Kodi. haha We heard the same thing…but the teachers really don’t have any right to do that. And like you said, they should just let us use our own organizational skills. Bad grades will show a kid that he/she isn’t organized…
Mm, I see.
If you come up with something, it will make a super self-help book and get you on TV shows, infomercials, etc. Glad it showed back up though 🙂
I like my planner. But I’m more attached to my favorite pencil.
Sorry, I’m three days late..happy birthday! big 17. I remembered it at about 2:00 on the 4th in algebra, but i couldn’t really do anything about it, because i was in algebra. so, sorry for the delay.
big 17! hehehe