Just wanted to post about this wierd development: I have stopped snacking. Not entirely, but overwhelmingly close! Since Christmas, I just have not been that hungry at all, but even as my appetite slowly returned over the last week, I've almost completelely ignored the potato chips in the kitchen, shirked chocolate of all kinds, and put down candy while thinking "hmmm...don't really want it."
I wonder how long this will last!
To continue the theme of purging unnecessary clutter:
Today I purged my Groupwise (email) inbox. I haven't quite deleted the 300 messages in my inbox, but they are archived and sorted into the appropriate folders. Then I went through my archive and sorted the 1000+ messages there. Tonight or tomorrow I shall delete with a vengeance. I've heard of the systems of sorting by "do now" "do tomorrow" "do soon" but that system doesn't work for me. Many of the emails I get are not action items but informative material that I may need to refer to later. I guess I could save them in a folder on my computer, but it is so much easier to access/sort when it is in Groupwise.
I did delete a plethora of email though, and by midterm I will comfortably delete all student email from this past fall. I hang on to those for a little while just in case a question/issue comes up.
I currently have 2 emails in my inbox and will "deal with" those tomorrow!
Ran through a couple more shelves on the big bookcase. Getting rid of:
Royal Secrets I, II, III (3 VHS tapes. Yes, I still have quite a few).
Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland (4 VHS tapes)
Shakespeare in London AND As You Like It (2 VHS tapes--will bring to MSCTC Library, I think)
Edinburgh, North Wales, The Cotswolds, Bath (VHS)
England (VHS)
Ivanhoe (6 VHS tapes)
Ivanhoe (the book)
2 Edith Wharton books. Ya know what? I don't even really like Edith Wharton. Why have I held on to these for so many years?
A Shropshire Lad by AE Housman (Ok, so I started to thumb through it and ended up putting it back on the shelf. Damn poetry. It can sneak up on a person like that. Am resolved to keep typing now and not skim anymore pages of other books).
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
Edward the Second by Marlowe
Macbeth (have several copies anyway)
Four Tragedies of William Shakespeare (Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear). Oh, and that reminds me of this photo I ran across whilst Stumbling yesterday.
Now I only have two or three shelves left, but I can't get to them until the Christmas bins are put away! :) Pretty good start, wouldn't ya say?
Consider this: I moved all this stuff down to Arizona and back up to Minnesota, then over to Fargo. WHY?????
So today I went through one bookshelf. Here is what I am getting rid of:
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
Strangers and Sojourners by Michael O'Brien
9 various historical fiction books about England
Billy Budd and other stories by Melville
Gone w/the Wind by Margaret Mitchell AND Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley
a book of modern poetry
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe
101 Costumes by Cummings
The Age of Agony by Williams
Two books about the Black Plague
one children's book about the Magna Carta
The Western Experience textbook.
The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
Now, these are books that
a. I never read
or
b. I read and enjoyed but don't hold deep attachment to
Stay tuned for Purge II!
PS If you want any of the books listed, dear friends, please let me know! You are welcome to them.
