[Cadaverous Pallor]

I think this counts as an idiosynchrasy.

When my promotion kicked in I grabbed a spiralbound notepad. I am going to be in different buildings with different bosses and needed to keep things straight. I love my notebook now, and it's absolutely indespensible.

The idiosynchratic part is that I know that the best thing about it is it's just a lined pad of paper. No special sections or boxes or whathaveyou such as in day planners. I make each page what I want it to be - calendar, to-do list, notes from a meeting, thoughts I have later, numbers I've crunched. I've got numbered lists and questions and scribbled facts, all wherever I want them to be.

I also realize that a Palm Pilot or similar technology isn't for me either. So many limitations there. Plus I have to learn how to write on it, remember to keep the battery charged, etc. I keep thinking of how quickly I access all my info on my paper notepad and realize that a computer would be a lot more hassle. Sure, my notes don't chime at me to remind me of things, but I use it so continuously that I can't forget what's in there anyway.

In that one way I'm definitely a dinosaur, I guess.