From Maine to Japan

Not my mess, but it's good to know Al Gore has similar problems

The sun has come out! Huzzah! The house desperately needs cleaning as it seems my mother-in-law will be coming to visit in April. Mostly this week I've been cleaning my office while classes aren't in session. The problem is the early stages of cleaning look a great deal like "making things much messier."

Cleaning the office is stressful because I keep coming across things I probably need to do, memos in Japanese about things that probably were important but the deadline was in, uh, 2006 so probably it's a bit late. I tell myself they would have contacted me if it was urgent and drop it in the trash, but I feel horrible and incompetent.

But at least the office is cleaner!