Update: Tuesday, December 30

For the past several days, I have been working on sorting my huge collection of magazines. To begin, I wanted to sort through all the Tennis Magazines which I have--dating back to 1966. While I do not have every single issue, it is useful to be able to go to them when I am working on an article about tennis, especially since I cannot always find such articles in Library research databases. Yesterday, I filed 6 bag-a-boxes full of magazines that filled 2 file drawers. Today, I sorted and filed 6 more bag-a-boxes that filled two more file drawers. I am now about mid-1990s and still have quite a few more magazines to go. I would like to finish organizing them by tomorrow. Then I still have a ton of other magazines that need to be filed--ESPN: The Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and many more.

Kitchen table covered with books

These two photos reflect the dilemma in my kitchen. The table is covered with books that I have used in writing the last several chapters on which I worked. But it has been several weeks since I finished the last one, and yet the stacks of books, note cards and other materials remain. The book case was filled before I started writing--containing books that I planned to use for the writing that I was doing. About half of the books were from the library, so I should be able to return some of those, rather than waiting until May and needing a shopping cart to return them.

For today, my assignment from Mary Jo is to spend 20 minutes cleaning and organizing a book case. So, I have chosen the above to do that. When I have finished, I will post the AFTER shot below this entry. It should look somewhat different (hopefully the table will as well!). Here goes:-)