This is getting harder and harder to do, now that I have a multi-section backpack AND a 3-ring binder AND all these pockets AND a car.
Before I get started on my homework, the first thing I have to do is chase down all the various pieces of paper from that day: folded, crumpled, misfiled, loose at the bottom of the backpack.
Pile it all up in one place, and sort it all out: to do tonight, to do another time (tip: put the due date at the upper right corner), stay at home, file with the class section of the notebook for use at school, etc.
If I don't, once or twice a week I miss a deadline, or panic and rush to finish an assignment I forgot because I didn't find the paper until I was doing the laundry, or looking for something else, etc. Not a good feeling.
The alternative, of course, is to carefully organize these papers as I proceed through the day. Not going to happen.
