9/14/07

A perfect mess

At various times in my life I have been accused of being anal retentive about my “space”. I hereby present prima facie evidence that I have been falsely labeled:

That is not to say that I do not aspire to having an orderly workspace/home office/garage/closet. However, I think a lifetime spent living with perfectly delightful right-brained people like Jason and Becky, has expunged 90% of any remaining orderliness from me.

P.S. "A Perfect Mess" is on my reading list.



2 comments:

Emily said...

Are you suggesting that this workspace is anything other than perfectly organized and neat?

Richard said...

It is constant information overload. My office is like an explosion of paper. Almost every square inch of vertical and horizontal surface is covered!

I once worked with a guy who was so totally committed to a minimalist existence that his office consisted of: a computer, a phone, a pencil, a white board, and a dictionary. Nothing else. He had no paper. None. No files. Nothing. He had office furniture but it was all bare. His desk drawers and book shelves were empty.

It was unnerving.