Rebel Prince

This week’s Friday Five:

1. Would you consider yourself an organized person? Why or why not?
I think I’m organized, but not necessarily neat. I’m a piler, not a filer. I like to see where everything is, even if it means being a bit untidy, rather than having them out of sight… and perhaps out of mind.

2. Do you keep some type of planner, organizer, calendar, etc. with you, and do you use it regularly?
No. I used to have a cell phone with a built-in Palm interface, and I loved having my entire address book so accessible and customizable, but I never used the calendar functions. I need to see an entire week or month at a glance, and a small PDA screen isn’t ideal. It’s not like I have a demanding work or social schedule anyway, so my multi-purpose, pocket-sized notebook suits me just fine.

3. Would you say that your desk is organized right now?
At work, yes, considering there’s very little to organize at the moment. Ask me again in a few weeks, when the desk will seem to have been completely replaced by a slowly drifting glacier of paper.

4. Do you alphabetize CDs, books, and DVDs, or does it not matter?
No. But I do try to organize CDs and books by genre. As for DVDs, I own so few that some kind of order wouldn’t be significantly more useful than their current random state.

5. What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever had to organize?
More a project, than individual items: a few years ago, when I interned for a Silicon Valley PR agency, I had to recruit retail sponsors for a local science fair. It was an unwieldy project, especially for just one person to handle—making contacts, negotiating promotional offers, etc.—but my anemic efforts at business persuasion seemed to have some positive effect. In the end, the event turned out rather well.

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So, when are we really grown up?
University of Chicago survey says adulthood begins at age 26

CHICAGO (AP)—The law may imply that you’re a grown-up when you’re old enough to vote, serve in the military or drink legally. But most Americans really think adulthood begins at age 26, according to a new study from the University of Chicago. The study said most people don’t consider a person grown up until they finish school, get a full-time job and start raising a family.

Full story here. Well, I guess this is somewhat true for me, but only because I happened to have a new job coincide with my twenty-sixth birthday. So unlike some other less eventful birthdays when I haven’t felt any different, this time, I actually do feel a bit older. But as for getting married and buying a house, yikes. I agree with one of the interviewees in the article, who’s much more “come what may” about it: “I don’t think those factors are important in defining yourself as an adult… There’s more of an attitude that ‘It’ll happen when it happens.’” Exactly.

Thanks to Tom G. for the link. And regarding this entry’s title: please tell me you’ve all seen Swingers. The scene in the diner?

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