Kirylin’s Voice

I’ve often wondered if I was just a bit odd. While other girls carried around cute little purses just barely big enough to carry a wallet and make-up bag, I always carried around a backpack or messenger bag big enough to carry my wallet, a hair brush and lip gloss, a deck of cards (in my younger days), and any number of books, notebooks, sketchbooks, and my pencil pouches. (Yes, it’s taken me quite a while to refine my go-bag, and I really want a smaller one.) It may seem a bit cumbersome, but I’m not good at sitting around doing nothing. I get bored too quickly.

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve slowly learned that I’m not so odd. Others do the exact same thing! Even better, they do other things I always thought just labeled me as “weird”.

I live out of my go-bag, and when I’m not living out of my go-bag, I’m living on my computer. As I mentioned the other day, I manage my life through the Google Apps. Email, schedule (complete with shiny new reminders), managing the feeds I read, notes, writing projects, photo organization, keeping an eye on my web spaces. I even run my to-do list on my iGoogle page through the Todoist widget. One of my tabs is permanently dedicated to iGoogle.

Every morning, I get up and deal with email and Reader, and then read a few other sites before blogging or reading. Every evening, I sit down with Todoist, remove everything I did that day, and plan out what I’m going to get done the next day before posting that day’s Notebook (unless I fall asleep, which has been happening a lot over the past month. Thanks, stupid depression and stress! You can both consider yourselves fired!)

It’s okay to keep my act together, to carry a variety of things to do (eventaully, my DS Lite should make it into my bag), and to run my life in a manner that actually keeps my life running. (I’m slowly figuring out that I really don’t have to apologize for being myself. I’m apparently okay just the way I am, weirdness and all!)