buffering…
cleaned my desk yesterday. felt good to follow up on the phase one document purge-and-shred from earlier this week. needed to recalibrate my organization strategy to make space for my small reference library which had been living on the literal edge of my desk. anytime i accidentally knocked over a book (which was often) it set off a chain reaction with nearly half a dozen other precariously situated accoutrements. there’s no sense in that.
winding down on the cleaning process today, i’m confounded by all of the little things that are left without a spot or collection to be housed with. sometimes the little stuff trips me up more than the big stuff. making space for the dictionary isn’t so bad, but the small box of slide film holders? i guess those should go in the back of a huge box and stored in an unreachable spot on my bookshelf for a year or so. yup.
so, in an effort to avoid that situation, i’ve corralled the floaters for more consideration
the desk clean and other housekeeping took most of the day and mental energy. i didn’t have it in me to jump back into a project, but i did go on a walk and picked up a color wheel! and some other less necessary art supplies. i didn’t have a physical color wheel and felt the solution was pretty low effort; and there’s a good art store in walking distance. the walk allowed me to collect my thoughts on a few in-progress projects. i needed the space, desk and dome, to ruminate.
there were moments of desk-mess that were productive, and glad i caught them. fussed with a few of those images last night, testing and working out some ideas. hadn’t intended to make any images; but i like it, so there it is at the top. oh! and i made a recreation of the classic buffering cursor hourglass! i know, it’s simple; but i thoroughly enjoyed making it ^_^
it’s nice to have room to think about project stuff without the visual clutter of having it all out. and i’m happy to be in a productive mindset having become familiar with the opposite. definitely needed to clear some things out to make space for new stuff to load.
oop! just felt an earthquake…
ok, bye bye!
