My Ordered List

For about two weeks now I've been carrying a paper journal around with me. This is a choice I based on the following circumstances:

1. I recently bought a purse large enough to not bulge awkwardly with this addition.

2. This journal is bound with red leather, which matches my day-planner, and plays to my newly acquired love of matching.

3. I've stopped thinking of the act of writing in it "keeping a diary in public" (something that seems to me a little unseemly, or at least conspicuous) but instead think of it like this: I'm taking notes.

And of course, if I can come up with a numbered list of reasons to do a thing, I'm likely to feel it's a good idea.