![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jbaileyI try to practice Inbox Zero, and this past year has been brutal far staying on top of my Inbox. When I started pruning the home email a week or so ago (having just gotten my work email box down to zero). It's giving me a pretty good review of 2008. And, umm.. wow:
Spinal tumor, surgery, hating Mountain View (the place, not the job there. My coworkers are pretty uniformly awesome), having a toddler, not being able to lift my toddler, crazy mood altering drugs, visa renewal, a funeral, unexpected pregnancy, weddings, buying a house, mid-term miscarriage, Angie's hospitalisation from that, pneumonia, a move home, having to withdraw from my Master's courses 3 times over the course of the year for medical reasons - eventually causing me to withdraw from the program. Extend it by another 3 months into 2007 (because while I'd love to believe that stress reset at the start of a calendar year...), and we have another wedding, a move to the US and a new job.
I've just gotten to an email where I took notes on what the risks were for the angiogram before I'd told many friends. There's a small pile of emails and such from people wishing me well that I never managed to reply to. I also find myself thinking back to the people I didn't hear from, and the reevaluation of my communities and friendships that came along with that.
The lyrics from Counting Crows come to mind: "It's been a long December and there's reason to believe that maybe this year will be better than the last."
Here's to 2009. =)
Spinal tumor, surgery, hating Mountain View (the place, not the job there. My coworkers are pretty uniformly awesome), having a toddler, not being able to lift my toddler, crazy mood altering drugs, visa renewal, a funeral, unexpected pregnancy, weddings, buying a house, mid-term miscarriage, Angie's hospitalisation from that, pneumonia, a move home, having to withdraw from my Master's courses 3 times over the course of the year for medical reasons - eventually causing me to withdraw from the program. Extend it by another 3 months into 2007 (because while I'd love to believe that stress reset at the start of a calendar year...), and we have another wedding, a move to the US and a new job.
I've just gotten to an email where I took notes on what the risks were for the angiogram before I'd told many friends. There's a small pile of emails and such from people wishing me well that I never managed to reply to. I also find myself thinking back to the people I didn't hear from, and the reevaluation of my communities and friendships that came along with that.
The lyrics from Counting Crows come to mind: "It's been a long December and there's reason to believe that maybe this year will be better than the last."
Here's to 2009. =)
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
thanks for summing up!
Date: 2009-01-05 07:57 am (UTC)Inbox zero, I'm going to have to check that out...
Hmmm...
Re: thanks for summing up!
Date: 2009-01-05 12:43 pm (UTC)Inbox zero is neat because it reduces my stress about email, between that and Getting Things Done, I usually find that I stay on top of my workload pretty easily.
Hmm, it would be interesting to do a post on the pieces of Inbox Zero, GTD, and Seven Habits that I use in my day-to-day life.
Happy New Year!
Re: thanks for summing up!
Date: 2009-01-05 08:57 pm (UTC)IT ROCKS!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND ANGIE AND LEIF TOO!
Re: thanks for summing up!
Date: 2009-01-06 12:56 am (UTC)