Out with the old

[psocoptera]

I have new icons:







Okay, you won't actually be seeing that last one, unless it's in irilyth's journal.

I made them, and then I stalled on putting them up, because I had to, gasp, throw out my old set first. I finally did it these evening because I've started working on going through old papers and throwing stuff out, trying to reduce what I'll have to pack and move. This is haaard. I have many giant folders full of class notes and the papers we read... even though (now that I didn't have to study for the comps) I'm not likely to need to refer to any of it (and if I did, would be much more likely to look stuff up on pubmed and download pdfs of the articles rather than rummaging through a bunch of folders to see if I had something helpful), it's still so hard to get rid of any of it! It feels like throwing out knowledge! All the labor represented in those margin notes! I'm trying to compromise by keeping a few "key" or memorable papers and a first-page archive of the rest, which means lots of satisfying ripping. But it's tough going. Hopefully the experience of deleting my precious icons and getting shiny new ones will help reinforce the idea that Getting Rid Of Is Good.

Comments

[elysdir.livejournal.com]

Sympathies on throwing things out. I tend to "solve" that by just never throwing anything out, but I can't recommend that approach as a good solution. Some day I still hope to go through the remaining boxes of high school and college papers that are stacked in my guest room....

Nice icons!

Kam used to to be very fond of Winslow -- I think that was even her username for a while.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

If only I had a guestroom. No, it's actually probably a *good* thing that circumstances are pressuring me to do some stuff reduction. Although I have no idea how I would go about really trying to have less stuff... I have a little pile of six or seven books I don't mind parting with, and maybe some pants I outgrew; the only item of any significant size on the maybe-get-rid-of list is my old and unused-in-years printer. But beyond that? It just seems impossible.