I may be one of the few people left who uses a paper calendar and not my Outlook calendar. I write down my appointments, doctor’s appointments, LP’s trips to his orthodontists, birthdays, anniversaries, etc. I don’t like Outlook. I don’t trust Outlook. My non-Outlook savvy boss accidentally sent me 53 outlook appointments when he was attempting to change meeting times from Eastern to Daylight Savings a few weeks back. They just kept coming and coming, so I emailed him with a “JUST STOP IT!!!”
Anyway, there are pithy quotations in my spiral bound desk calendar.
“Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
On paper this sounds inspirational. But think about it. It’s really bullshit. People achieve things all day long and aren’t necessarily enthused about doing so.
“Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.”—John Updike
Again, this is bullshit. Certain activities and jobs are drudge no matter what. How can the job of ditch-digging become creative even though the digger wants to do it right? It reminds me of the Sandra Bullock character in While You Were Sleeping. Towards the end of the movie she’s lamenting her job as a subway token taker. “I sit here, day after day, in this box—like a veal" haha.
And, no, this post has no point.
10 comments:
god knows I acheived three kids with very little enthusiams
I can do nothing with a great deal of enthusiasm.
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. - Robert Benchley
i like this emma. just because someone is quoted doesn't mean they are right.
like "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" .... who says?
I still use a paper calendar.I don't like outlook either.
The blue goose flies West in the full moon.
I think it was Ron Jeremy said a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
I have a paper calandar.
I had a Jack and Scout paper calendar made and gave them as gifts at Christmas. This year it'll be a Jack, Scout and Jake calendar.
I use a paper calendar, too. The one I bought for 2006 starts each row of days with Monday and goes through Sunday. It's driving me crazy. I can't get used to it. I'm going to have buy a new one, I think.
I always save the calendars, and now and then I get out the ones from past years and scan through what I did with my days. It's pretty interesting to see how my daily routine has changed and how it has stayed the same.
I have lots of paper calendars,I have a far side one on my desk,a mckenzie thrope one in the kitchen and a leeds united one in the downstairs loo thats set to may2005 because I fancy neil Sullivan
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