[[Age 13]]
The outlet that has absorbed the greatest amount of my office supply energy over the years is undoubtedly my day planner. I work in and around technology, so I’ve succumb to keeping an electronic calendar in the past few years, but the change has been wistful.
The crowning glory of my agenda achievements came in eighth grade. Every Friday night Katy K. and I would color in our birds for Mr Hubley’s class, watch TGIF on ABC, and choose our theme colors for the following week.
Every block on the page was a class for that day; theme colors alternated across boxes. Tests were listed at the top of the box, and homework in the center. Bad theme colors could mar a whole week; good ones lifted it up.
Katy moved away to New Jersey after that, but our planning passion lived on. Now she lives happily in Vermont with Yarrow and Rob, and, happily, I’m seeing her next month.
