big task #1 done

I'm very very tired, but I've finally finished sorting and filing all my papers. This includes the ones I brought back with me from Michigan after Memorial Day weekend to file in with my papers here (it only took about 3 months and reality of moving in less than a week to get me to do that). This also includes the "unfiled" papers, which pretty much were the ones with which I had no idea what to do. I do have a container of papers to take with me (including my perpetual "to do" folder which probably is filled with outdated papers, as I never actually do anything with what I put in there) but that's it.

I'm confused. I keep looking around for my stacks of papers and don't see them anywhere. This probably also is because I've been working on this since 8pm, so...almost 8 hours of paper sorting. I'm sure the sense of acccomplishment will settle in any time now (~waiting~).

I'm a little scared that my papers are gone. When they're in the filing cabinet, they seem so...confined. And forgettable. When I can't see them, it's almost like they're not there, and I have this lingering doubt that I'm not going to be able to find anything. Granted, it's not like I had any sort of paper organizing method before, but at least I knew I had them, because they were *there*. I think I need to keep my actual papers-in-use out somehow, which now should be easier (theoretically) because all the papers-not-currently-in-use are put away. Or something like that. I've never really been in this state before, so I don't really know how this works. Suffice it to say that I have / had a paper problem, my parents had a paper problem, and I'm not really sure what it's like not having my desk be my filing cabinet.

It's weird. And I'm rambling, and I'm going to crash any second now.