Things To Do

1. Get car regd
2. Pay nrg
3. Cook dinner (try the n grn pnr recipe that J told me?)
4. Call STR (Imp: Re: the gazoo)
5. Check TdL paper for Ku k/o ptype

I love lists. I love making them. There's something about making a list that is so empowering. The basic functionality of the list consists of the fact that

1. It can be done anywhere, it doesn't need a specific place or time. If inspiration strikes me while I'm watching a movie in the theatre, I simply whip out my pen torch (or just squint in the light reflected from the screen) and my much used itty bitty pencil stub (or lip gloss or eye liner) and I can dash down my points (like remember to wash clothes tomorrow) on the back of the ticket stub.
2. Everything seems more professional when it has a number in front of it. Like try telling somone "You Suck". Not so impressive, right? But if you said "1. You Suck", people would stand up and take notice. Besides they'd want to know what 2 is.
3. It fools everyone into thinking I'm extremely organised. So when my boss tells me to make sure I do something the next day, I simply say, "Yup, let me add that to my list", and this sets her little heart at rest (besides making her think that I (a) have a list (b) have so many things to do that I need a list (c) write down every word she says).
4. You need just 2 points to make a "respectable" list.

Besides all of that, they make me feel like things are under control. I finish writing my list, and then I think NOW, now!! the world is OK. I might be in the midst of a tornado, the roof of my house might be flying away at this very moment, lightning and thunder might be crashing over my head, but Everything is Fine, because I Have Made My List.

Of course I'll lose the scrap of paper on which I've made the list (I have no illusions about that!), and even if I did manage to keep it safe I would not understand a WORD of it, if I read it an hour later (no illusions there either). But the intrinsic value of the list making is the essential here. If the military would listen to me, they'd issue standard 3x7 Scraps of Paper and Little Stubs of HB Pencils to all their troops. Never mind the guns and grenades. A man armed with the ability to make a list is a man armed to the teeth.

The cover of the Listmaker's Guide to the Galaxy would most definitely have on it in big bold letters, DON'T PANIC, MAKE A LIST.